Forex on Interactive Brokers

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

This is a bug which will be fixed with next beta. Thanks for reporting.

[moscu]

IB thru ATI does not work for Forex

I am trying to use the Beta version 6.5.0.8 to send Forex trades to IB using the ATI interface. My setup is Tradestation->Ninja->IB. Here is what I get in the logs when I send a trade:

2/18/2008 23:17ATIAT 'PLACE;Sim101;EURJPY;SELL;100000;;0;0;DAY;;;;' processing 2/18/2008 22:41ATIAT 'PLACE;Sim101;GBPCAD;SELL;100000;;0;0;DAY;;;;' processing
NT receives the order by it hangs in processing. Is this setup supported in this Beta version?


Thanks,
Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Which feed are you connected to? Does your feed provide data for EURJPY and GBPCAD? If not, then sim account is unable to process your orders.

Please inspect your logs for funny messages.

[buderim]

Hi,

I am hoping to go live with IB in the next week or so.

Does anybody know if you can get historic FX data from IB, when I connect I only get current data.

Thanks
Ian

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

AFAIK IB only supports full historical data as you connect with your live account.

[buderim]

AFAIK IB only supports full historical data as you connect with your live account.

Hi Dierk,

I am connecting to my live account, but I am still using the sim version of NT

I am planning to get a license once I have tested NT with my IB feed.

Should I be able to get FXpro backdata ?

Thanks
Ian

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

- please make sure you are on latest 6.5.0.9.
- please try Tools->Options->Misc->Reset instruments

[buderim]

- please make sure you are on latest 6.5.0.9.
- please try Tools->Options->Misc->Reset instruments

Hi Dierk,

That fixed it,

Thanks for your help.

Ian

[moscu]

Dierk:

I am connected to my Live IB account. I am also running autotrading for stocks and for those the orders are being filled. This looks like NT does not have enable Forex for IB.

Thanks,
Moscu

Which feed are you connected to? Does your feed provide data for EURJPY and GBPCAD? If not, then sim account is unable to process your orders.

Please inspect your logs for funny messages.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Do you see data coming in on TWS for the currencies you want to trade?

Also: Please see my post below, are there any funny messages in the logs?

[moscu]

Yes,

I am trading Forex live manually also. . My setup is sending orders from Tradestation for both Stocks and Forex and they both get displayed in NT except that Forex orders never get executed. This is the same behavior I saw when running the production version I believe.


Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please see my posts below: Are there any funny messages in the logs?

[moscu]

My bad

I had some code that I used in the non-beta version to avoid sending forex orders. It will set the orderId = "" and I think this is why NT was not processing the order. You can see that for Stocks the order id is present but not for Forex.


Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please send a mail to "support AT ninjatrader DOT com" for follow up and reference this post.

[moscu]

Please add IB currencies

Dierk:

Now that you are enabling IB could you please add to the Instrument database the major pairs:
AUDCAD, AUDNZD, GBPAUD, GBPCAD

I just added those but I do not want to have to do it everytime I update and I have two servers where I trade (main and backup).

Thanks,

Moscu