MB Trading

Steve, I was trading and taking snapshots to post on my journal. Then I restarted Ninja and ... can you explain? These are both 100 tick charts, showing the same time periods (or at least supposed to).





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Wow.

This just keeps getting better and better!

Take a look at a 450 tick chart before restarting Ninjatrader taken several hours before the other one, and afterwards.

What's up with this, Steve? This is not the first time I notice that charts tend to look differently after I restart NJ.





Compare the end of the 5/5 chart, and the same period on the more recent 5/6 chart.

 

Did you check with the Ninja Trader support?

 

I just did. Problem solved.

One other question.

Does MBT provide daily data?

When I try to use daily data I just get blank charts.

Thanks Steve!

 

yes

 

So you think the issue is with NJ?

Sorry for these questions that MBT must've been asked a thousand times in different threads already.

I could have avoided all that if I just read the documentation for both MB and NJ.

 

I have not researched it but I am confident that since its their application that the issue was on their end. Our data is just data. How its displayed in within their system. You mentioned it was resolved. How?

 

Here's their response:

 

I trade directly from the chart in Ninjatrader.

The chart trader has the bid/ask quote on it with the size of each. There's something odd I noticed about that size.

There's the usual normal size - like 1M, 2M, 3M, etc. Then there is the odd size - 1.1M, .99M, 1.99M etc.

Whenever there's an odd size, it tends to quickly become rounded back to the normal size.

Why is that the case?

If this is truly an ECN, then shouldn't we be seeing lots of small orders, and therefore odd sizes on the bid/ask?

Thanks.

 

Limit orders are only going to be on the best bid/ask a fraction of the time. This should put your mind at ease:


(note - I have sub-pip pricing rounded-up to the nearest pip in that screenshot)