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You are not in danger of deletion. No one is being deleted for criticizing or not agreeing with Jigsaw, or anyone else. The new posters who have been banned have generally arrived at futures.io for the first time just yesterday or today and started to run up their post counts with junk posts, a rule violation. Generally they seem more interested in having enough posts to comment in the Vinny review thread, although some have stopped here to leave a criticism of Jigsaw, apparently because Vinny has a thing about Jigsaw.
The sudden surge of spammers is obviously something deliberately coordinated.
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Hello Together.
i am new to jigsaw daytradr and use it with Ninjatrader8 and the ninjabroker CQG Feed.
i recognize that the market depth in ES is cutted to 30 levels instead of 50 or more (which are visible in the ninjadom)
is that normal? or have i a wrong setting or an technical topic?
I have a CQG feed from Tradovate and also have Jigsaw. To check I just opened an ES DOM in Jigsaw, set the Market Depth in the Parameters tab of the DOM settings to 50, and I also only had 30 levels per side.
Having said that, using a DOM I have never used more than 10 levels out. I have only ever found the extended full depth useful for heatmap charts, such as Bookmap, (or Jigsaw Vista charts), when they are zoomed out to show the day's range for looking at large intraday swings. Not so much with a DOM where I always tended to be looking much more precisely at levels and wasn't really interested in any size beyond a few levels off the inside prices.
Maybe that is just me though. You could email Jigsaw support to see if they intend to increase the depth available at some point in the future.
You do not win as a trader, you just get to play again the next day. If that game doesn’t appeal to you then you should not trade. Gary Norden
In trading NQ or ES in this volatility I like to utilize automatic brackets when executing a trade. For instance I’ve structured it so that an automatic 40 tick stop is placed along with a first target of 40 ticks (which can easily be hit within a second or seconds on a good entry in NQ). My issue is that I don’t want to take my entire position off at 40 ticks……perhaps half or a third. Is it possible to enter multiple profit targets in the strategy manager somehow? Or if not multiple targets just a portion of the original position at profit target 1?
With this insane volatility it’s very beneficial to have that automatic PT one but obviously you want runners to remain on. I realize you can set “offset” to only apply to a certain number of executions but then you don’t get the stops entered
I think Jigsaw would be a good fit for my trading style. Previously to seeing Jigsaw I had envisioned some sort of trails and speedometers to monitor order flow but had not yet been motivated to write the code for it.
I am very interested in Jigsaw, BUT all the myriad videos I'm finding...
1) Seem to want to explain how the market works rather than demonstrating how to use the software.
2) Pick the absolute thickest markets to do the demonstrations where it's nearly impossible for a beginner to follow
3) Crowd a half dozen instances all on the same page while bouncing around from one instrument to the next instead of focusing on one in slo-mo.
4) Don't demonstrate the customizable features comprehensively. The videos I've seen just aren't very well organized or thought out.
I find it all very confusing. The axiom, "If you can't explain it well, you don't understand it," comes to my mind.
I imagine the video(s) I seek are out there, they're just lost in the prolific videos they've made. If anyone knows of any concise demonstrations of the software and how it is used without trying to overwhelm the viewer I would greatly appreciate a link.
Also, I have a lifetime license of NT and use them as my broker. I would be particularly interested in what the limitations are of the NT "bridge" (data costs, connections, feature limitations if any, etc)
I would like to gather as much info as possible before I do a 14-day trial so I can hit the ground running to make the most of that 2 weeks.
Any urgent questions you might want to contact Jigsaw support as nobody from Jigsaw answers a question here for month's at a time.
I have used Jigsaw so to answer your questions:
1. CD on the charts is based on transacted bid/ask volume only.
2. Yes, the CD is a chart indicator showing bars below the chart for whatever timeframe you have chosen as shown below (pictures from manual).
3-4. No, it can't be shown as a histogram. The bars are coloured for positive or negative delta.
5. It doesn't show up/down tick.
6. Jigsaw can be used standalone but it costs more if using data from Ninjatrader and it is cheaper to connect with the Jigsaw NT bridge. See below.
Jigsaw charts are pretty basic, if using Ninja brokerage their CD indicators are probably better, or you can download a free one quite easily.
You do not win as a trader, you just get to play again the next day. If that game doesn’t appeal to you then you should not trade. Gary Norden