Is Ninja/Zen Fast Enough for EMini Futures Trading

[Khepfere 10]

Hello-

I am in the process of setting up my trading system for Futures. I am little reluctant to proceed with Trade Station because of the data problems I've been reading about with them lately. I am thinking of using Ninja/Zen and either Mirus or Velocity Futures as the broker.

 

I'd like to know your experience with the speed of getting data and placing orders with such a Ninja based system - since most of the work in Ninja (especially for advanced orders) is done client side and not Server side.

 

Do you find you miss opportunities, get bad fills or does it seem to be fast enough to allow you to be competitive.

 

Thanks

Khepfere

[MC 10]

Is there a reason you made 3 posts all with the same text? I deleted 2 of them and this one needs to stay productive or you may see this vanish as well.

 

Please keep on track and don't spam here.

 

Thanks

[Khepfere 10]

My Bad. Not trying to spam. Just trying to ensure exposure. Nex time will just go with one post. Thx

[brownsfan019 17]

Everything I have heard about Ninja/Zen has been good. Depending on the commission setup, you may pay extra fee(s) for this so make sure to do a comparison against Open ECry and others.

[atto 20]

I use both NinjaTrader and Zenfire, and am very pleased. Never had any real problems, and love the speed.

[momentom 10]

I went with amp over mirus because of customer service. I day trade and the chart trading on ninja is great.

[lionelhhn 10]

I 'm with Nt also but thru mirus.

The feed and platform is great for day trading the eminis.

 

Amp is good but I would say customer service is only abt 5% better.

 

Reckon amp comms are better than mirus. Nt is not exactly free which is

false advertising. Every little thing like dynamic dom will cost.

Guess its the least of the evils out there at the moment.

[namstrader 10]

I ve been with Amp futures/Zenfire and Ninja. Most of these guys were former floor traders and a guy named Collins has been so helpful and supportive with any issues I had with Ninja charting setups etc.

[brownsfan019 17]

Nt is not exactly free which is

false advertising. Every little thing like dynamic dom will cost.

Guess its the least of the evils out there at the moment.

 

And that is what turned me off to NT. It's not free, regardless of what anyone may say. If it was free, how could NT stay in business, right?

 

So just keep that in mind when comparison shopping. You want stability and reliability, but you also should watch your business expenses. IMO Open ECry offers a very attractive free option that is also very solid. I came from a platform that I was paying $500/mo for and have to say that OEC has been great to me.

[atto 20]

I think Ninja is great for newbies (because it is free to demo), and the cost is very reasonable, imho. I know of a trader who uses Ninja for charting and data (using a free demo), and places orders through another setup, if you're completely averse to fees.

[lionelhhn 10]

Guess I must be a newbie then -))))

 

Agree with brownsfan. Check out the hidden costs in NT.

With a free lisc from amp u can't even access market wizard / or strategies.

With many providing bracket orders inclusive in fees, NT makes u buy the lisc.

 

Then there's all the little bugs u might experience. Go read their forum and see what the major questions are.

 

But eotrop indis will be available for NT in abt a mth I think. Thats if u're into the indis.

 

But to be fair its a maturing platform. So am giving it some rope.

[Khepfere 10]

Thanks everyone for your responses to this thread - very helpful

[goldfishboy 10]

It helps to make up my mind too

[hanz 10]

I think Ninja is great for newbies (because it is free to demo), and the cost is very reasonable, imho. I know of a trader who uses Ninja for charting and data (using a free demo), and places orders through another setup, if you're completely averse to fees.

 

yea i heard it too and they place order with transact AT...

[nyctrader 10]

I've been using Ninja with Zen-Fire for about a year. Very happy with the combination.

[ZOSO 10]

I use Ninja/Zen and Ninja/TT and I think the latter is faster, but both are excellent.