Is Ninja Trader compatible with IB’s Financial Advisor Friends & Family account t

[pstrusi]

I've read directly from IB web page the following answer:

"Yes, although not with the full order allocation functionality provided directly through the TWS. While Ninja Trader can be used to submit orders for a client sub-account through the Advisor master account, it does not allow for a single order to be allocated to more than one sub-account. This is in contrast to the TWS user interface which provides for multi-client trade allocations from a single order (through the Account Group or Allocation Profile options)."

Questions:

- Is this issue already solved? if not:
a. Whose should solve it, is IB or NT ?
b. Is there any progress about it?

- Which should my NT configuration be in order to work properly with this kind of account?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pstrusi,

Thanks for writing in.

As far as I am aware you may trade to multiple IB accounts. To do this you will need to make multiple connections to multiple instances of TWS. Then, once all the accounts are listed in the Accounts tab of the Control Center, you may trade to them using a group account.

Below is a link to a forum post with instructions to connect multiple IB accounts.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ad.php?t=49734

Also, below is a link to the help guide on Managing Account Groups.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...unt_groups.htm


Just fyi, using an account group is not possible with an automated NinjaScript strategy.


Please let me know if this does not resolve your inquiry.

[pstrusi]

Thanks a lot for your useful solution Chealsea, I'm glad that this can be worked out

Best regards

[pstrusi]

what do you mean by fyi? ticker?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hi pstrusi,

Fyi is an acronym meaning For Your Information. This was to let you know that the part about account groups wasn't asked directly, however, I felt that it was relevant information.

Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

[pstrusi]

In this case: very relevant, cause I plan to work with my automated strategy, so I still have the problem.

Just in case, if you had some further info would you please let me know?

Thanks anyway

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pstrusi,

While I do not have any further information, I will add your vote toward adding the ability to trade a strategy over an account group for a future release of NinjaTrader.

Thank you for your suggestion to improve NinjaTrader. I will update you when I receive a tracking ID for this feature request.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pstrusi,

I wanted to let you know I have received a tracking ID for this feature request from our development department.

Your feature request is being tracked with ID #1113.

Thank you again for your suggestions to improve NinjaTrader.

[pstrusi]

Thanks Chelsea for you diligence.

I anted to let u know that I've contacted to IB support about this issue, and they told me that is exclusive of NT, so I hope this can be solved timely in your next update.

Best regards

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pstrusi,

You are correct, this is a limitation of NinjaTrader and is being considered for a future release of NinjaTrader.

Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.