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Forum: Brokers May 9th, 2012, 07:02 AM
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Posted By Fat Tails
With the premium feed you will actually get...

With the premium feed you will actually get several FOREX feeds. You can select your preferred feed via the symbol map under instrument settings.
Forum: Brokers October 15th, 2011, 05:48 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
To add a stock from TSX (former TSE) you first...

To add a stock from TSX (former TSE) you first need to look up the Kinetick symbol. You can use the symbol guide of DTN/IQ or simply take the stock exchange symbol and add a C. For example Sun Life...
Forum: Brokers September 30th, 2011, 07:28 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
In fact, Interactive Brokers has low quality...

In fact, Interactive Brokers has low quality data, so they just put the close from the intraday data on their daily charts.

As Ray from NinjaTrader pointed out, Kinetick uses the settlement price...
Forum: Brokers September 24th, 2011, 06:45 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
We should not pollute this thread with questions...

We should not pollute this thread with questions on Interactive Brokers, this is a Kinetick thread. I have answered here:
...
Forum: Brokers August 19th, 2011, 11:08 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Historical volume from Interactive Brokers is...

Historical volume from Interactive Brokers is near-correct, real-time volume is completely off.
Forum: Brokers August 19th, 2011, 08:07 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
If you use constant volume charts based on IB...

If you use constant volume charts based on IB volume, good luck. IB real-time volume is false all the time, as it is only a bad approximation of real volume. If you replace real-time volume with...
Forum: Brokers April 1st, 2011, 04:29 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Range and volume bars are built from tick data. I...

Range and volume bars are built from tick data. I believe that Kinetick supplies both real-time and historical tick data for stocks.
Forum: Brokers April 1st, 2011, 01:30 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
I use the Kinetick prices every day for...

I use the Kinetick prices every day for calculating my floor pivots. I appreciate very much that all the prices are settlement prices. I have frequently checked them against exchange data for CME,...
Forum: Brokers January 12th, 2011, 10:36 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
In this case one can find out by writing down the...

In this case one can find out by writing down the IP-adresses of the access points and ping them.

I have had a similar issue with my broker, when one of the transatlantic cables was down....
Forum: Brokers January 11th, 2011, 07:54 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Were the servers only down this morning? I...

Were the servers only down this morning?

I think that the servers are operated by NinjaTrader, so maybe DTN/IQ had no downtime.
Forum: Brokers January 11th, 2011, 06:58 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Was that Kinetick EOD or did you subscribe their...

Was that Kinetick EOD or did you subscribe their data feed?
Forum: Brokers December 29th, 2010, 06:21 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
I checked the websites, and indeed Kinetick just...

I checked the websites, and indeed Kinetick just offers support via e-mail, which is not satisfactory.

But if you need support with DTN/IQ during the early morning session you are not better off:...
Forum: Brokers December 5th, 2010, 11:23 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
You would need to specify the issues you are...

You would need to specify the issues you are talking about and give some detailed examples. Your question is not clear at all.
Forum: Brokers November 4th, 2010, 07:35 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
(1) Select rollover date, enter rollover date via...

(1) Select rollover date, enter rollover date via instrument manager (for the financials the default settings are ok, but for energies, metals, agriculturals and softs I look at volume crossover)....
Forum: Brokers October 8th, 2010, 07:19 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
How to build a tick data base with 1 year of data

NinjaTrader stores tick data locally. So if Kinetick data offers 20 days of tick data, you need to connect once every 20 days to collect the data. Your tick data base will grow and grow.

There is...
Forum: Brokers October 7th, 2010, 02:32 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
The Fib Cluster indicator is a simple versiion,...

The Fib Cluster indicator is a simple versiion, which shows fib lines based on prior highs and lows, retracements and expansions. The indicator is based on multiday highs and lows. It was my first...
Forum: Brokers October 6th, 2010, 07:44 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
The fib confluence indicator extends intraday...

The fib confluence indicator extends intraday data with daily data.

The chart below was created with 20 days of intraday data, extended with daily data to cover 300 days. So 20 days should be...
Forum: Brokers October 6th, 2010, 06:32 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Think you have two options: - fund a Gain...

Think you have two options:

- fund a Gain account and buy NinjaTrader licence ti trade live
- continue with the free NT licence and buy Kinetick FOREX data for USD 25 per month
Forum: Brokers September 30th, 2010, 05:51 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Yes, EOD data is free. Intraday real-time data is...

Yes, EOD data is free. Intraday real-time data is billed.

But consider: I know about 20 different charting packages, and none of them has free quality EOD data for single month and continuous...
Forum: Brokers June 15th, 2010, 12:26 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Thank you for the clarification. From the point...

Thank you for the clarification. From the point of a user, it is sometimes difficult to understand, what actually has caused the problem, whether is was the datafeed or the software. There are still...
Forum: Brokers June 12th, 2010, 08:02 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
- You can load continuous data, which is not...

- You can load continuous data, which is not backadjusted.

- You can load individual contract months going back about 180 days, for example you can load daily data for ES 09-10, ES 06-10 and ES...
Forum: Brokers May 24th, 2010, 07:40 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Example of data quality

If you go back in time, some of the data is very strange, for example see EURGBP data in the beginning of 1997. Would you believe this?

I have personally found that most of historical data is of...
Forum: Brokers May 23rd, 2010, 06:24 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Thanks for the hint. Some of my problems were...

Thanks for the hint. Some of my problems were caused by wrong symbols. I just replaced @MD with @EMD (S&P midcap 400), @K with @KC (coffee), BC with @EB (Brent Crude) and the symbols for gold, silver...
Forum: Brokers May 22nd, 2010, 06:04 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Checked again on my first machine. Also works. So...

Checked again on my first machine. Also works. So I assume that there was a problem an hour ago....
Forum: Brokers May 22nd, 2010, 05:36 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 101,161
Posted By Fat Tails
Yesterday I downloaded YM ##-## without any...

Yesterday I downloaded YM ##-## without any problems, today it did not work. This is not related to settings, because I did not change them.

Just checked my second machine, this is a virgin...
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