Backfill Using the IB Feed for Non-native Futures Symbols

[saliva]

I want to load ICE Brent Crude (COIL@IPE), which is currently not available in NT/ZenFire but it is available in InteractiveBrokers TWS.

So I decided to add it manually in the NT Instrument Manager (see the first attachment), hoping to get the feed directly from IB. However, when I try to load the chart, I received the following error message:

"NinjaTrader data server does not support this instrument, no data available." (See the second attachment.)

Is there any way to fetch the data for COIL via IB?

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi saliva,

Thanks for your post.

Are you using any other data connections? The IB connection shouldn't be querying the NinjaTrader historical data server.

[saliva]

Hi Kyle,

After reading your post, I disconnected from ZenFire and COIL loaded without a glitch. Thanks for the suggestion.

But I find this problematic. One of the major problems is that IB isn't very reliable and I would prefer to use ZenFire, whenever possible, for all other instruments. How can I be connected to both ZenFire and IB and use ZenFire as the primary source and IB as the secondary for only those symbols that are not available from ZenFire?

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi saliva,

I'm happy to hear you've worked that issue out.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to define which data feed will be used on an instrument-by-instrument basis. The only way to define which feed data comes from is through connection order - but that won't do the trick in this particular case unless you're able to configure the instrument for use with Zen-Fire as well.