Iqfeed as data feed , Place trade in IB

[marwanco]

Is it possible to Have a strategy doing the following :
Tick based Iqfeed as my Datafeed, but execute trade in IB?
Any tutorials that already exist ?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi marwanco, thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forum.

NinjaTrader can have two connections running at the same time, so set up an IQFeed Connection and an IB connection per the guides here first:

https://ninjatrader.com/Help-Connection-Guides

Then connect to IQ feed, then IB. After this, set up the strategy and for the Account field select the IB account.

Best regards.

-ChrisL

[marwanco]

Thank you Chris,
Is it possible to create a strategy to count ticks per second the stock is trading?
Is it done with C# language or there are built in variables that can show me that info.?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi marwanco, thanks for your reply.

There's nothing built-in that will count the ticks per second of the market. The most straight forward way would be to run the strategy OnBarClose (for it's Calculate property) and then see what Volume[0] is on every bar on a 1 second chart.

NinjaScript is a C# library, I like to refer to this forum post from our colleague Chelsea that walks through beginning NinjaScript:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/97575-sample-scripts