Trading FXCM CFDs through futures feed

[SARdynamite]

Hello, would there be a trick / setup to trade futures chart but get CFD fills from FXCM ?

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello SARdynamite,

Thanks for your post.

Can I clarify, are you wanting to trade futures with a different broker and trade CFDs with FXCM or are you wanting to base your CFD fills or trade signals from futures instruments?

[SARdynamite]

Trigger CFD fills from futures instruments

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello SARdynamite,

Thanks for your reply.

To do this you would need to connect to a data provider who supports futures also and you would need to create a multi instrument automated strategy that gets it's signals based on futures but executes to CFDs.
You can review the SampleMultiInstrument strategy in NinjaTrader under Tools> Edit NinjaScript> Strategy
Below I have provided a link to the Multi-Time Frame & Instruments section of our help guide.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?multi_time_frame__instruments.htm

If you wanted to manual trade you would need to open up a chart for each of the instrument and manually place the orders to the desired instrument.

[SARdynamite]

Following both of your suggestions and regarding the disclaimer of the FXCM connection which states this :
"Should you choose to trade CFDs through FXCM, you will be unable to concurrently trade futures instruments on a different provider while connected to FXCM."
...what kind of conflict should I expect precisely ?

[SARdynamite]

Following both of your suggestions and regarding the disclaimer of the FXCM connection which states this :
"Should you choose to trade CFDs through FXCM, you will be unable to concurrently trade futures instruments on a different provider while connected to FXCM."
...what kind of conflict should I expect precisely ?

Can i still be connected to both a futures connection and FXCM connection, and trade from a futures chart with a multi-instrument strategy triggering a CFD instrument of FXCM ? No conflict whatsoever ?

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello SARdynamite,

Thanks for your reply.

I have verified with development this disclaimer is old and no longer valid. We will remove this message in future versions. There should not be a problem.

[SARdynamite]

Getting back on the topic

What if my aim is to get FXCM fills while trading manually a futures feed ? Multi-instrument strategy option would only work for automated trading, not manual trading right ?

What about "group accounts", would that help to achieve hybrid manual trading ?

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello SARdynamite,

Thanks for your reply.

This is not supported. Account groups would not resolve.
You would need to open up a chart for the futures and the cfd you want to trade. Watch the futures chart and then manually place the desired orders to the cfd chart.

[SARdynamite]

Flooding the market with too many orders, that side by side solution would not be practical and precise at the same time

Could a programmer around imagine a solution internally to Ninja with both connections on, without the use of one of the FXCM API's ?