Ready to try out some ideas in simulation

Twiddle said:

Hi Bullet,

If you are interested in trading futures, I would suggest downloading Ninja trader, it is a very powerful program and it allows you to sim trade and backtest for free.

You can get a month simulation account for ninjatrader with mirus futures.
http://www.mirusfutures.com/

They use the Zen fire data feed which is very good.

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bullet21 said:

Yes i will be trading futures. So to do sim with Ninja trader i have to have a data feed?

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Twiddle said:

Bullet,

There are no restrictions with the demo data feed, it will give you full data for the instruments it supports. (which are all the big ones like ES, FTSE, FESX, DAX, major currencies etc, only drawback is no SPI...)

Have you set up the instruments in "instument manager" with the correct contract month?

For example FDAX 09-10 (The German stock index which trades between 4PM and 6AM Sydney time)

Once you have the correct instruments set up, you should be able to open charts up for that instrument, on the various time frames you want. If you are looking at a chart which has just a series of dashes at various levels you may be looking at an old contract month chart or something which is currently in a very low activity period.

I suggest adding FDAX 09-10 then taking a look at a 1 min or 5 min chart after work... during that time you will see how it should look and move etc.

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