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This has probably been asked before but I can't seem to get a straight answer. I was using transact, but after testing ninja I believe its far superior(specially the data feed). Top two choices are velocity TT feed or AMP Zenfire feed. Has anyone had any experience with the two data feeds. Its hard to compare the two side by side, but it seems that zenfire is faster, while pro's swear TT feed saying that its faster and more reliable. Is the TT feed filtered or unfiltered data.

Also, if anyone can give me some input with the two different brokers as well.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.

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My first impression is that you execute a lot of trades a month if ur account is directly with Transact. Which leads us to Amp. Amp is an Introducing Broker/IB for Velocity and TT as you may know. My Amp account is really a Velocity account Cleared at Pension.

 

I have had demo feeds from TT, TransAct, Zen, MB Trading and Trade Navigator running at the same time. After printing the screen (Alt/Print Screen) and comparing the last price and total volume - TT, TA, Zen were all the same. MBT and TN were low on Vol which leads me to believe that some of the data is missed. There is a room that pushes TN and bad mouths Interactive Brokers for not providing all of the data - which reminds me I would stay far away from PFG Best or what ever else in the name.

 

I have a bad taste with Ninja (was thinking of buying before the mouth full). An update was released and I started having hangups. Others did too. Support tried to help and during the remote control of my computer she started removing software from my comp. (yes I said OK - my fault). But the sad part is that it was a .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 issue and before they figured it out about 3 wks later all Ninja support could was deny, deny, deny and it was all the users fault - not enough memory, to slow cpu - on and on. Ninja is a RESOURCE HOG. Maybe I am spoiled as I started out with AmiBroker a fast clean program even if they might us "reverse polish notation". Since you must still be here I will explain. 1st it is meant to be funny. How - I never understood those expensive HP calculators of the 70's/80's as I heard that they used "reverse polish notation" what ever that is. 3rd - The smart guy that wrote AmiBroker lives in Poland. enuff enuff.

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What i did was compare the Time and Sales of my TOS platform to zen and TT individually, and I noticed that the Thinkorswim time and sales would print for example 1+,1+,1+,1+,12+... while the TT would just print 3+,13+ which leads me to believe that TT aggregates the data( big no no since I base my trades from tape reading). I guess I have to use two different computers for the Ninja and Zen comparison since I can't have both datafeeds on Ninja on the same computer.

 

On the other hand I do agree with you that Ninja is a bit faulty, I think that transact is more stable, however, i really dislike the data feed, slower than esignal and horrible fills. There was a time when their new V3 platform was lagging esignals by a whopping 20 seconds(and yes i was on the right month). When I called in they told me I either had a slow connection or the markets are fast. "It happens" was his reply. So I wired all my money out the next day, when he asked me why, I told him "it happens". I'm not going back to Transact and I don't think that Xtrader is worth the price. I guess ill open up an account with both of em and see what happens. If others want to give their input, I would still appreciate it.

Also, I noticed that Zen clears through both dorman and RCG. I wouldn't mind hearing some experiences from them as well.

 

Thanks Everyone

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If others want to give their input, I would still appreciate it.

 

 

I use Ninja with Velocity. I'm happy with them. I can't give you any insight on the differences of other feeds, tho. sorry.

 

Btw, with Velocity you don't have to buy "credits" to use the static dome in Ninja, like with some brokers, and Velocity doesn't "disable" some functions if your only trading the free simulation, like some brokers do.

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