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Been with AMP for 2 years now, no complaints, my contact responds via skype in less than a minute, most of my queries are answered rapidly, not that I have had many. Margins requirements are reasonable, fees are reasonable. Executions are rapid and problem free. Why trade Forex, I trade currencies 6E,6B, 6C, 6J, 6A no problems with spread, during high volatility can get a bit of slippage but normally only on market orders and usually not more than a pip. Choice of Zenfire (Rithmic) or CQG.

Thanks for reminding me MMS, I had better check with NINJA as to when everything stops with 6.5. Funny really I came across this thread whilst searching for info on Tradestation as an alternative to Ninja. Getting Ninja 7.0 to work with my connection is impossible, tried many times over the months with no success. Ninja support can´t do anything. Anyway I´m the only one with this problem in the whole of the Ninja customer base! Pity really, it means I have to change my broker as well, AMP, who have been great since I started trading 2 years ago. But thanks to this thread I at least know that Tradestation is not an alternative for me. Isn´t it time that the Platform Developers started thinking about compatibility with wireless connections, particularly as Trading is now a world wide phenomenon and many countries are more advanced in wirleless connections than they are in hardwired. Off topic I know!!

A word of caution. If you decide to use 3g-4g wireless modem as an optional backup please be carefull. I live in Spain and since september 2010 when Vodafone upgraded their systems to the HSDPA standard I have not been able to use Ninjatrader V7.0 at all. I have had to revert back to Ninjatrader V6.5 which works perfectly. Wether this problem exists with other platforms, like Tradestation, I don´t know. Might be worth borrowing a dongle from someone to try out before committing to a contract.

Thanks Blowfish. You made me think about the routing issue so I downloaded a programme called Pingplotter, it it provides a graphical display of the latency, packetloss and the number of Hubs. My connection to Ninjatrader takes 17 hops, astoundingly Madrid, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, England and 3 in USA and the route changed occasionally to take in Italy, the software identified exactly where the problem was, it wasn´t Ninjatrader. Thanks to that I now have a fully functioning connection.

Thank you for your help. It is indeed an ISP problem, Vodafone in Spain has updated its service to HSDPA my Huawei 220 modem stick was to old to cope with the increased speed and couldn´t keep up. An up to date modem stick and the problem is nearly resolved, much improved, I can trade, but Vodafone have admitted that since they upgraded they have had many complaints. I have to give them their due, we were on the phone for over an hour, whilst conversations were had with technicians who are going to come to my location, rural Spain, and make some further alterations to the setup here. Also flashed my new modem and WOW what a difference. Interesting to hear that the price data comes from rythmic for zenfire, but my problem was getting historical minute data, which apparently comes direct from the Ninjatrader server and is provided FOC by Ninjatrader. As for getting the broker to sort it out, if they can not interpret a trading statement I seriously doubt that they could sort out a technical issue!!!

I am having problems with my data feed, can someone who knows tell me. I have a zenfire feed, does the data come direct from zenfire or does the feed come via another server, the broker for instance? Can a feed be throttled down? To avoid the obvious advice. No there is nothing wrong with my platform, Ninjatrader Support has been great and spent a lot of time trying to find a problem, but there is not one with the platform. Nothing wrong with my internet connection, has been tested and checked. Which leaves the broker and data server, hence my question. Hope you can help. many thanks