Autotrade through Interactive Brokers

[abfc123]

Hi,

I have just started running a minute strategy executing through Interactive Brokers.

Is there documentation anywhere that focuses on autotrading NT and IB?

Problems I've encountered include
-LARGE disparity between Kinetic market data and prices from IB.
-Popups and error alerts looping and crashing NT.
-disconnects from IB

How long can a single instance of NT run for before needing to be exited and restarted?
I am running onBarClose=false but that shouldn't cause having to reboot a workstation on a daily basis.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

Thanks for your forum post.

There is no documentation on IB specifically however I will be happy to further assist with your questions.

- What instruments are you seeing this on, I would expect your probably trading Forex instruments and seeing this difference in prices?

- As far as these pop ups we need to know when they occured and you need to send a note to support through the control center->help->Mail to Support and let us know what time date the crash occured so that we can find the reason in the trace file and further assist.

-Also, this would need the above to further assist.

As far as your last question on how long to run. I know that IB does a nightly disconnect and reconnect when IB restarts there servers every night. Since IB does this it is also a good idea to do this as well.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

[abfc123]

Hi,

Given the differences between IB data and Kinetick, what issues can I expect if I use Kinetick as the realtime market data and executing through IB?



Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello abfc123,

I am not aware of any issues when using such a setup.

Please note that your strategy will run on data from Kinetick this way.