2 questions

[JustJoker]

Hello,

I've got 2 questions:

I'm with IB as a broker. My primary connection is Kinetick. I mostly trade futures and need some data that IB do not provide (NQ Up/Dn for example). When I try to use IB as a primary connection, I do not get the NQ Issues Up index data. The opposite situation with IB forex data. I have not got Kinetick subscription for FOREX and don't need one as its OTC market and I want to see only my broker's quotes to handle stops the right way. I have FOREX data from IB. But again, when I use IB as a secondary connection, I can't get IB's Forex data on my charts.
As I've understood, I should get FOREX from the 2-nd connection in case the 1-st one doesn't provide such type of data. That's my case.

Question 1:

Is in possible to somehow get FOREX on a chart from IB as a secondary connection without Kinetick FOREX subscription?


Question 2:

I'm a little bit confused with future contracts such as ??? ##-##. For example, if I use 6M ##-##, 6B ##-## instrument, what contract's data do I get? What happens on expiration dates? What expiration date's volume would I see? Is it wise to use such contracts instead of ?? 12-12 for example?

Kind regards,

Serge

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Serge,

When connected to multiple connections simultaneously in NinjaTrader, you will receive data from the first connected connection on most occassions. Only when the first connection does not support a certain instrument type (stock, futures, forex, index), it will load data from the second connection. Please see the link below for information when using multiple connections.

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

Since both IB and Kinetick support all 4 instrument types, data is received from the first connected connection.


Question 1:

Unfortunately this is not supported.


Question 2:

##-## is the continuous contract, meaning it has previous expiries merged. You will load continuous data as provided from the connected data feed. I am not sure what roll over dates are used - please check with the data provider.

Please note that such contracts are used for information purposes only - you cannot trade them.