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On the thinkorswim platform application, under "Setup", change the Quote Speed to "Real Time - no delay". The Active Trader for the most part moves alright, but when the market gets fast it does get jumpy, application runs smoothly though as long as I don't have too many charts and indicators. I use limit orders, for buying and selling market I guess it depends on how fast the underlying is moving and the liquidity.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
THanks for the input,that really made everything move much faster and I see why you use limit orders for buy in now. I will say my paper trading at the old setting was doing pretty good, so now wondering how my realtime will be. thanks again for your input
I always use market orders on CL, GC, ES, and all of the currencies.
The slippage for me is almost always 1 tick, sometimes none depending
if price is on the bid or ask and I'm buying or selling.
If I play news events or more volatile times I have noticed more slippage especially with CL.
When I'm trading the 2hr chart, this is really not an issue to me.
I have noticed the clock freezing and that's your internet connection (at least it is for me), not TOS.
Yes, doesn't seem any worse slippage than other feeds. I also have Mirus zenfire on Ninjatrader and I still get 1-2 ticks slippage on CL more than occasionally. Sometimes even more.
Here is another idea. You can setup TDA/TOS data connection for minute data (no tick data from TOS) in Ninjatrader. You can watch the charts on Ninja with all your indicators and trade in TOS.
