Trouble connecting IB to NT for CL and Gold

[skris]

Hi All,

First post here, fantastic forum!

I seem to consistently have trouble connecting to CL (Crude) and Gold futures into ninjatrader, all I want to do is pick a chart up with an Interactive Brokers feed.

For Crude:

I always get the msg: "Bar timer disabled since either you are disconnected or current time is outside session time or chart end date", I'm trying to load the September (09-11) contract, yet when I select CL from the instrument lookup list it defaults to CL 10-11? Same thing occuring with gold. (Yep I'm a complete NT noob, sorry guys!!)

Or if theres any threads which go over the basics of creating a new chart?

Thanks for any help. Cheers

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Hello skris,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the forum.

This may be due to the Session Template you have applied. Please right mouse click within your chart-->Data Series-->Session Template-->Set to either "Default 24/5" or "Default 24/7"--> Click Ok.

I have provided a link below to our Help Guide that goes over Creating a Chart.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/charts.htm

Please let me know if the issue persists after this procedure.