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On Thr Feb 17th @ 1:00PM Eastern Time US we will be hosting a webinar presentation about the Sierra Chart trading platform. Velocity Futures offers Sierra Chart for free to its customers, and will give details about that during the presentation. A technical …
Could you give us an update concerning your experience with Sierra Charts? I have done the same as you, a while back, but I am still struggling with SC (not Optimus). I do know, that for me anyways, SC is more stable - just having a hard time finding my way around.
Platform: Sierra Charts, Investor RT, Ninja Trader
Broker: VanKar
Trading: NQ
Posts: 520 since Sep 2009
Thanks Given: 583
Thanks Received: 1,248
I really like SC. It took a couple of days to customize it. I did not like the default fonts and settings; it looked like something out of the 90's. However, I just kept poking around and figured out how to change all the settings. The charts to me look very much like a chart from NT. I have found I am able to customize just about everything, from the font, to a study setting, to anything on the chart. I really like the chart DOM feature and the way you can trade with it.
There have been only 2 issues with SC for me. I miss the analytical part for trades and I had a little trouble getting some symbols into the global symbol list. As to the analytics, it turns out since I have a lifetime license with NT, I can see the real money trades I do on SC when I open NT and thus I can use the NT analytics to look at my trades. For the symbols, I post on the SC support forum the symbols I need and SC support adds them for me.
The SC support has been fantastic. I posted a couple of weeks ago asking about use of SC with Ubuntu (a Linux OS). Based on my question and that of some others, SC is actually considering doing a native version for Linux.
My suggestion to you is to not open NT for a week or so, just play with SC. At the end of the week, you probably will not want to open NT.
Papa15
Papa15: Thanks for the feedback. I find many similar things about SC that I enjoy over NT. Still getting the hang of it though. I like to trade and not spend a whole lot of time trying to figuring out how to program - it just doesn't feel intuitive to me - YET. I am sure most have no issue.
Which brings up a question: I have access to both a Rithmic and Trading Technologies data feed (for now anyway). When plotting the CL contract (Nymex- so it says) using the Rithmic, the right scale reads ##.## - When using the TT feed for CL (CME - only choice that I have been able to find), the right scale reads ####.# I can't seem to change the right scale in the TT feed to read ##.## Maybe I am asking too much, but I have been attempting to accomplish this for over 2 hours now.
Platform: Sierra Charts, Investor RT, Ninja Trader
Broker: VanKar
Trading: NQ
Posts: 520 since Sep 2009
Thanks Given: 583
Thanks Received: 1,248
I can get SC to start and log in, but the Rithmic data engine will not start. SC posted last night they will not be doing a Linux version as it is not practical but they are investigating the Rithmic issue.
Papa15
