Well, I'm still hunting for a decent data source for Ninjatrader charts. My Tradestation idea went bust because TS would charge me twice---once for the copy of TS that I run on my main computer, and once for running Ninja with TS data on another computer.
So, my latest idea is OpenTick. Their website says that they provide FREE data--this quote is from their homepage (
www.opentick.com):
"free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms.* over ten terabytes of historical tick data for free."
However, a different page (this one:
http://www.opentick.com/index.php?ap...nt=market_data) shows that they charge for CME data, which is what I'd need.
Still, CME emini data for $15/month is reasonable, I think. Depends on at least two factors:
1) whether it's reliable (good ticks, non-crashing)
2) whether the $15 includes back data
On another thread of TradersLab (found here:
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...-and-3042.html permalink #2 of that thread), Sparrow has kindly critiqued OpenTick, and given it I gather fairly low marks.
The purpose of this thread is to ask whether anyone on TradersLab has used OpenTick for Ninjatrader, or used OpenTick for anything at all. Feedback of all types will be gratefully received.
I will post a similar message on the Ninjatrader support page, but I wanted to get feedback from the folks I can trust, our own Traderslab community. And hey, if it turns out that OpenTick is a viable way to get reliable data for cheap, and Ninjatrader has charts that are free, this might be a truely winning combination.
Thanks, Taz