A common use case for trader clients I work with is that they have several computers to do their trading-related work. They have a live trading license and one or more Continuum username/password combinations, and/or one or more Kinetick username/password combinations. Usually, they just use one machine to place trades, and the other machines are in a supportive capacity (charting, optimizations, research, and so forth). Some have in the 8.0 product installed the live trading license on all of the machines and some have installed the live trading license only on the machine that does live trading, with @SIM licenses on the rest. In all cases, they have a unique, paid data feed username/password combination for each machine.
Now that NinjaTrader has said that license keys are essentially "going away" in favor of user entitlements, and is having a login each time to the desktop platform by username and password (see here where I have suggested that it be possible to bypass this login screen and the multiple other threads about this subject in the past few days), I emailed platformsupport[at]ninjatrader[dot].com to try to get clarity on whether an "account" with a username and password (the kind used for logging into NinjaTrader) is permitted to log onto more than one machine - I'm trying to ascertain the "best practices" to recommend as traders with these complicated setups upgrade to 8.1. Support replied back to me that each NinjaTrader username and password can only log on to one machine at a time, though I observe anecdotally that I can log into multiple machines with one username and password, provided they all have separate data feeds.
What is it the traders are supposed to officially be doing here in this case? They don't need a live trading license on more than one machine (usually) but they do need to be logged onto NinjaTrader from several computers at a time. Should those be separate usernames and passwords (separate user entitlement accounts) in the new 8.1 paradigm? And if so, does that mean they'll have to create a bunch of throw-away gmail accounts to do this because the emails are required to be unique? All of this is a lot to maintain compared to the way it used to be, where they could just click the icon and it fired up.
What is the "best practices" recommendation then for using more than one machine at a time - especially when all but one are not trading live and therefore do not have the security sort of concerns recently discussed?
Thank you for your consideration of this question. The answer affects many people and could make their experience fairly close to what it was before or notably more inconvenient than it was before.
Now that NinjaTrader has said that license keys are essentially "going away" in favor of user entitlements, and is having a login each time to the desktop platform by username and password (see here where I have suggested that it be possible to bypass this login screen and the multiple other threads about this subject in the past few days), I emailed platformsupport[at]ninjatrader[dot].com to try to get clarity on whether an "account" with a username and password (the kind used for logging into NinjaTrader) is permitted to log onto more than one machine - I'm trying to ascertain the "best practices" to recommend as traders with these complicated setups upgrade to 8.1. Support replied back to me that each NinjaTrader username and password can only log on to one machine at a time, though I observe anecdotally that I can log into multiple machines with one username and password, provided they all have separate data feeds.
What is it the traders are supposed to officially be doing here in this case? They don't need a live trading license on more than one machine (usually) but they do need to be logged onto NinjaTrader from several computers at a time. Should those be separate usernames and passwords (separate user entitlement accounts) in the new 8.1 paradigm? And if so, does that mean they'll have to create a bunch of throw-away gmail accounts to do this because the emails are required to be unique? All of this is a lot to maintain compared to the way it used to be, where they could just click the icon and it fired up.
What is the "best practices" recommendation then for using more than one machine at a time - especially when all but one are not trading live and therefore do not have the security sort of concerns recently discussed?
Thank you for your consideration of this question. The answer affects many people and could make their experience fairly close to what it was before or notably more inconvenient than it was before.
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