I use NT8. I have nothing bad to say about it. Executions are great and the automated trade management is very easy to use.

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, I noticed when using the ATM that 9 out of 10 trades are closed to my disadvantage. Example T/P set at 10 ticks. NT closes the trade at 9 ticks. Example S/L set at 10 ticks, NT closes the trade after 11 ticks. It's strange. I've never seen anything like this on any other platform. I'll test this for a few more days. If the NT support can't explain this to me, I'll unfortunately switch back to SC. I never had a problem with it.

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, I noticed when using the ATM that 9 out of 10 trades are closed to my disadvantage. Example T/P set at 10 ticks. NT closes the trade at 9 ticks. Example S/L set at 10 ticks, NT closes the trade after 11 ticks. It's strange. I've never seen anything like this on any other platform. I'll test this for a few more days. If the NT support can't explain this to me, I'll unfortunately switch back to SC. I never had a problem with it.

lol, this isn't strange, this is trading . I guess you have no or very less experience trading futures. The Target is a Limit-Order, so you will always get 10 ticks or more, but the Stop becomes a Market-Order as soon as the price is hit and if the market is moving fast against you you will get slippage (in your case 1 tick), but if you trade thin markets (NQ, GC), you can get way more slippage. It is just part of the game, nothing else (and has nothing to do with the platform, just the connection to the exchange is important).

Agree with this. Whether an order is filled or not does not depend on the platform. It doesn't happen on the platform, it happens on the exchange.

Now, if you are trading in sim, then that's a different story, and you didn't say whether you are live or sim. If you are doing simulated trades, then sure, the platform may matter, because it's just simulating where and when your market order will be filled. This will be based on assumptions that are built into the software. This is an attempt to duplicate what would happen in real trading in a market, where your orders have to be matched to other, actually existing orders. In live trading, you can't be sure exactly where a market order will be filled until it's happened. In sim trading, the software makes its best guess. So if you are on sim, this would explain it.

If you're live, the fill price is determined by the servers at the exchange, not what trading software you are using.

Bob.

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Edit: I just read your first post, where you said you are "paper trading", that is, simulation. That's your answer then. If you shop around for the platform with the sim fills that give you the best results, you are looking for the wrong thing. When you go live, the way it handles simulated trades will not matter, and won't help you or harm you.

I have been practicing with a sim account ..

Fortunately running on a Chicago based VPS using live accounts platform tracking the market performance looks more reliable.

HedgePlay

Justine4,
Stumbled upon this searching something.

IF I understand - to re-cap:
- you want a Chart Trader capability (priority 1)
- you don't have an allegiance to a particular Broker
- .net may be nice to have but not need to have
- you're expecting to trade live in the near future but would like to trade with whatever platform you will continue with initially continuing in SIM

Have you looked at MultiCharts at AMP Futures?
If I understand correctly it is a special edition for AMP, has Chart Trader, is free to their clients *as long as you fund an account* i.e. for your situation, you can fund an account, see if MC suits you and if so transition to live trading. There is a small data fee so if you're not trading live but want live feed.....But it is only a few bucks/mth depending on what Exchange data bundles you want.

There are what I might call different types of 'lag', and you've received some excellent informative replies. You have come across platform lag problems reported and it is fair to say it has had many. No doubt many due to third-party indicators, wherever the fault for that may lie. No doubt many not. Where the two can come together, is that if your charts are lagging by a second and you are trading off a chart in real time, in fast volatile markets price will have moved at the Exchange but not on your chart, resulting in 'apparent slippage'. As already answered yours sounds like SIM fill as it is consistently 1 tick

Hope this helps,

Hi Brucerobinson and thank you for your message. yes, you understood it all correctly. I've made a decision and I'm sticking with SierraChart and AMP. Never had problems with this combination. It's a bit of a shame because the support @ NT is much better than that @ SC and because the look of NT is also better, but with SC I get everything in one package. For me, that makes the crucial difference.