I have to admit that Ninja Trader has some really useful tools for strategy creation, backtesting, and optimization. As I am a programmer myself, I was excited to see C# as the underlying language for scripts. However, halfway to getting my credit card out to purchase cleaned tick data and buy a license of Ninja Trader I paused. Everything fell flat when I noticed you could not place opposing limit/stop orders at the same time (hedge). 90% of "serious" forex strategies include a hedge element due to the volatile nature of that market. And 5 out of 6 brokers I've worked with over the past 2 years accept hedged positions. So I'm wondering why Ninja Trader is offering forex as an option in their software when "trading rules" of equities don't apply to forex? And why would NT try to protect me anyway with trading rules, it's my strategy. I'm a big boy.
Maybe in the future NT can add hedging orders as an "advanced" only option. So, yet again my excitement over a "killer app" for testing automated strategies for forex deflates. Back to my plethera of custom built tools.
peace
Rich
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