The Journey : I ran across this post on BitMex that looked promising
* Followed the instructions on a virgin NT8 install and loaded the NT8 BitMex API adapter and created my BitMex connection within Ninja.
* Restarted NT8 and and the connection to BitMex started right up. Opened the 'Instruments' list and discovered lots of crypto pairs and futures that had not been there before and started to get excited, but then noticed an oddity...The pairs (BTC/USD, ETH/EUR, etc) were all showing as 'Stock' type rather then 'Forex' type. Picked the XBTUSD Stock and downloaded the price chart, however was getting no live streaming data. So I created another instrument with the same data only of type 'Forex' and then started getting live feed. Tried with another pair tho and no-go (i think it has something to do with an odd naming convention BitMex has with their securities other then XBTUSD).
One caveat tho, to get a solid historical block of minute data loaded you will have to go to the Historical Data dialog and download it 7 days at a time. It seems there is an issue with the API request being able to process large interval periods. Going off to work but wanted to put this out there for those wanting to get BTC data to test against their strategy's. Will explore further in couple days and report new progress. Big Props to Samuel Reed for the work done on this plug in so far.
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