Suggestion: Manually choose priority of data feeds

[Celticaces]

I use Mirus/Zenfire for my live feed, and IQFeed for historical data. I set them both to load at startup, but noticed that IQFeed with it's delayed intraday feed took priority over the zenfire live feed. I'm pretty sure the prioritization depends on what order the feeds are loaded in, but that becomes unclear when they are both set to load at startup

I think an easier route to take would be to make a prioritization grid for the data feeds that the user sets up. I say grid because some feeds you want to be a priority for futures, but another one for forex. It would look something like this

Stocks / Options / Futures / Forex
1. IQFeed / ????? / ZenFire / Gain
2. Yahoo / ????? / IQFeed / ?????
3.
4.
5.

[kdoren]

I second the motion. I'm willing to connect manually, but I'd like to get stock data from IQFeed and futures and forex from IB. Right now that's impossible to do at the same time. I have to disconnect from one and connect to the other.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Auto startup connections are established alphabetically. To choose the order you want to connect, please build that ordering into the name of your Account Connection.

Thank you for your suggestion on different priorities for different instrument types. This is currently not supported.

[aviat72]

The ability to chose which data feed to use for which product will be great. I use IQFeed for tick accurate futures data. But IB would be fine for everything else.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello aviat72,

Unfortunately this is currently not supported.

Please note that NinjaTrader will retrieve real-time data from the first connection. Only when the first connection does not support an instrument type (stock, future, index, forex), it will retrieve real-time data from the second connection. You cannot assign a data feed to an instrument.

I will forward your suggestion to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

[eDanny]

I think these suggestions are great and I am sure they have been made before. I add the request for a future feature like this!

[aviat72]

Jason
One problem I face right now is that IQFeed will supply delayed date for instruments you are not paying for. As a result NT latches on to that for those instruments (it seems).

IB data is fine for most of the things I am doing but I am not sure how to force NT to use IB data.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello aviat72,

Please connect to IB first and IQFeed second. That way all real-time data is retrieved from IB instead of IQFeed.

[aviat72]

The problem there is that IB data is not tick accurate which I want for futures.

What I want is IQFeed for tick accurate data (futures) and IB feed for stocks.

Challenge is that IQFeed will send delayed data for stocks also so NT may not fall back to IB.

If there is a way for NT to figure out whether the data coming in is RT or not and try the secondary connection, it would be great.

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi aviat72,

Unfortunately, there is not currently a method for NinjaTrader to determine if data being received is real-time or delayed, and then to automatically choose a data source based on this information. With that said, I will forward this on to my development team for further consideration.

Thank you for your feedback!