Newbie Sim101 Problems

[rjburek]

What am I doing wrong? I just set up NT using Yahoo's 15 min delay data feed for stocks. I get charts and market analyzer functions OK. When I place a simple Market BUY order in stock chart or Control Center for account Sim101, A buy order line appears in CC orders, and order state is green "Working" but it never fills! What haven't I set up correctly?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Sim101 works of realtime data coming in. If there is no data, then no order would get filled. YAHOO mainly is used fro historical data and only provides a "tick" every 15 mins or so, which is what you experience.

[rjburek]

The Yahoo data feed is 15-minutes behind real time but gives me "continuous" data on every instrument every 5 seconds. I'm watching a half-dozen 1-minute charts updating right now with no problem. I set the "request interval" to 1-second but in reality ticks are coming into each instrument about every 5 seconds. I thought the simulator wouldn't know the difference (a tick is a tick) so would simply take the next tick as a market buy price. Does the tick interval have to be shorter?

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.


To reiterate Dierk below, Yahoo isn't set up for a real time data feed. The only data that is deemed reliable through Yahoo is daily historical data.

Here is a list of the data feed providers NinjaTrader supports and what data they provide:
http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/HistoricalData.html

[rjburek]

I think I figured it out! Only certain stocks show Bid/Ask prices and the others only show Last price. If Bid/Ask was given, like for AAPL, then Sim101 executed the trade, otherwise NO. I don't want to spend $$ on a live data feed until I learn the details of using NT features and test a few strategies, but apparently this will only work on stocks where Yahoo gives Bid/Ask. Thanks to all for suggestions!