Support for charting spreads

[JangoFolly]

Hi, Ray. I'm interested in charting intra-commodity calendar spreads (e.g., May/June CL on NYMEX).

1) Is therea way to construct a spread symbol that can simply be charted without any script programming (similar toesignal's tool for user-defined spreads)?

2)Can the bid andaskvalues be referenced as symbols? I used to use Neoticker,and one can use a suffix on the symbolto specify the bid or ask price (e.g., "CLK7!A" or "CL K7!B").

If these capabilities don't exist, please consider adding them. Thank you.



Regards,

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Hi Jango,

This not currently supported and I will add to our list for future enhancement consideration.

Ray

[JangoFolly]

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ninjatrader wrote:

Hi Jango,

This not currently supported and I will add to our list for future enhancement consideration.

Ray

Thanks.

[taamtamm]

calendar spreads

This not currently supported and I will add to our list for future enhancement consideration.

Hello,
I need the spread orderbook, so I can trade e.g. a calendar spreads with superDOM.

What ist the state of affairs?
Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Spreads are currently not supported.

[whitier]

It would be great the charting of spreads. I Hope next version considers this.
Thnx

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

This will be supported in NinjaTrader 7. Its beta version is expected to be released the first quarter of 2009.

[zelli]

Jason,

If spread charting will become available, does that mean spread prices and trading via the DOM will be available also?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Although I cannot say for sure, yes, it would make sense that these things would be included as well.

[taamtamm]

Native charting of spreads too please. Not only synthetic spreads.

Thanks

Edit: E.g. from Interactive Brokers datafeed.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

I will forward your suggestion to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

Thank you for your feedback.

[robinecek]

Hi there,

is it already possible to chart commodity spreads in NT?if yes, how?

thank you in advance

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Unfortunately spread charts are not supported in NinjaTrader by default.

However it is possible using NinjaScript to plot the difference between 2 instruments. You would need to program a custom indicator that will plot the difference of two instruments. Please see the link below for more information on this subject.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/multi_time_frame__instruments.htm

There is a custom created spread indicator available on our forum. It is listed under Version 7 Indicator as "Spread".

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/index.php