Mapping NinjaTrader's instruments Patsystems' instruments

[mgbloomfield]

How does NinjaTrader map the master instruments to Patsystems' instruments?

In the Instrument Manager, I have ES 06-08 listed.

In the Broker Authorized Symbols, there are several symbols listed:

Name_____Exchange_Expiry__Pats Symbol
MINI S&P__CME_____JUN08__ES
MINI S&P__CME_____SEP08__ES
MINI S&P__CME_____DEC08__ES
MINI S&P__CME_____MAR08__ES
MINI S&P__CME_____JUN09__ES

So, in this case, how does NinjaTrader know that ES 06-08 is mapped to MINI S&P CME JUN08 ES?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

MINI S&P__CME JUN09 ES

not sure why you need to care... this is some NT internal logic which we don't expose nor provide info on

[mgbloomfield]

Apparently, the instrument mapping part is auto-magical :-)

I was concerned because I didn't want the wrong instrument to be executed. Sure, I could "trust" NinjaTrader to map things correctly, yet I would like to "trust and verify" since we're dealing with money. I don't want to execute the trade then discovered that the wrong instrument was executed.

Perhaps, if there was a way to visually confirm the mappings? What if there was another column ("Authorized Broker Symbol") in the Master Instrument dialog that would show the one-to-one mappings (rather than opening a separate "Broker Authorized Symbols" dialog). If there's no mapping, than the column is blank. If there's no brokerage account, then the mapping column is indivisible.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Thanks for your suggestion. We'll add it to the list of future considerations.