Equities?

[nelson]

Can we add equities to our instrument list?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Yes you can.

[nelson]

Equities

Ok, I give up, Can't figure out how to add an equity to my Instrument list. I've searched the Help data base, and played around with the "New", "stock" "Master Instrument" and "symbol", but can't seem to get it to work.

Please outline steps for me

Thanks

[NinjaTraderEcosystem_Ryan]

Hi Nelson:
Thank you for your post.
1. Which stocks are you trying to receive data for?

2. We have a pre-built list of the S&P 500 that can be downloaded into your Instrument Manager.

Instructions can be found here:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Pre-BuiltInstrumentLists.html

3. You can certainly add a stock manually to the Instrument Manager, but an easier method is to select 'Stock' in any order entry or Format Data series window. This will then enable you to type in the stock symbol directly into the Instrument name field.

See attached screen shot for reference.

Let us know if you are still having trouble.

[nelson]

OH!

Hi, Ray,

That sounds easy enough. Thanks for the details.

However, when I used the "Format Data Series" window, Type: Stock, Name: TRE, Exchange: AMEX, etc., I got the "You need to select an instrument" error message after clicking OK.

I don't think I need the whole list. I just want this one equity at the moment.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Unfortunately you would need to add TRE to an instrument list in the instrument editor to actually make it available for selection.

This is a limitation which will be overcome by fall time frame

[nelson]

More please

Hi Dierk,

When I tried using the instrument editor originally, and now again, these are the steps I took:

Tools, Instrument Manager, New, Instrument Editor, Master Instrument (wrote in symbol "TRE"), Instrument type, "Stock", Exchamge "AMEX", Misc Tab, Symbol Map, Zen-Fire "TRE" OK, OK, OK

When everything closed, TRE did not show up on list, nor did I get an error message.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

The instrument surely will show. Please make sure you sort the grid by name and find TRE.

You may want to try again just with another name to see how it works. You later may then delete this instrument.

[nelson]

No . . .

Sorry, Dierk, when I do a search for the symbol, name or description, with type set to "any". I get an empty dark grey list. And when I try to enter "IBM" "USS" GOOG" I still have same problem.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

a) Just click on the "Name" column to sort by name and then manually search for TRE or the symbol which you just created.
b) You need to leave '*' in "Name" and "Description" field before you press "Search" button.

[nelson]

Still Not There

It's not there

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Sorry, I'm on a loss.

>> Tools, Instrument Manager, New, Instrument Editor, Master Instrument (wrote in symbol "TRE"), Instrument type, "Stock", Exchamge "AMEX", Misc Tab, Symbol Map, Zen-Fire "TRE" OK, OK, OK
I tried that on NT6R3 and it did work as expected.

Also: ZenFire does not support stocks. Why do you setup the mapping for Zen?

[nelson]

Dierk, I didn't know that zenfire didnt support stocks . . where should i enter the symbol? I dont want to trade the stock from ninja, just want to use ninja charting

[NinjaTrader_VinceB]

Nelson,

I guess we are a little bit confused right now.

Can you please let me know:

- Who you connect to
- If you want to enter a Stock symbol

Vince

[nelson]

Hi Vince

I connect through Mirus/Eliot Wickersheimer. I use Zenfire for my futures trading. Have starting using Ninja charts and like them, but do my equites trades thru TradeStation. Wanted to look at one equity on the Ninja charts.