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Old 07-27-2008, 08:20 PM   #1

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Is Ninja/Zen Fast Enough for EMini Futures Trading

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I am in the process of setting up my trading system for Futures. I am little reluctant to proceed with Trade Station because of the data problems I've been reading about with them lately. I am thinking of using Ninja/Zen and either Mirus or Velocity Futures as the broker.

I'd like to know your experience with the speed of getting data and placing orders with such a Ninja based system - since most of the work in Ninja (especially for advanced orders) is done client side and not Server side.

Do you find you miss opportunities, get bad fills or does it seem to be fast enough to allow you to be competitive.

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Re: Is Ninja/Zen Fast Enough for EMini Futures Trading

Is there a reason you made 3 posts all with the same text? I deleted 2 of them and this one needs to stay productive or you may see this vanish as well.

Please keep on track and don't spam here.

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My Bad. Not trying to spam. Just trying to ensure exposure. Nex time will just go with one post. Thx
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Everything I have heard about Ninja/Zen has been good. Depending on the commission setup, you may pay extra fee(s) for this so make sure to do a comparison against Open ECry and others.
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I use both NinjaTrader and Zenfire, and am very pleased. Never had any real problems, and love the speed.
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I went with amp over mirus because of customer service. I day trade and the chart trading on ninja is great.
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Re: Is Ninja/Zen Fast Enough for EMini Futures Trading

I 'm with Nt also but thru mirus.
The feed and platform is great for day trading the eminis.

Amp is good but I would say customer service is only abt 5% better.

Reckon amp comms are better than mirus. Nt is not exactly free which is
false advertising. Every little thing like dynamic dom will cost.
Guess its the least of the evils out there at the moment.
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I ve been with Amp futures/Zenfire and Ninja. Most of these guys were former floor traders and a guy named Collins has been so helpful and supportive with any issues I had with Ninja charting setups etc.
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