NinjaTrader 7 and IB Gateway

[RedDuke]

Hello,

I am aware that NinjaTrader 7 does not officially support IB Gateway, however I used it in 2014-2015 with no issues. I need to trade at IB again and use Ninja 7 (my strategies are not ported to 8 for now), and had difficulties connecting this time. When I just installed Gateway, Ninja would not even connect, it was giving me an error that c:\jts.....\tws.exe file was missing. I then loaded TWS.

Here are the steps that I now need to perform to connect:
1) Connect to IB Gateway manually
2) Connect to IB from Ninja. This opens TWS login pad
3) Cancel TWS login pad
4) I am now connected.

Is there any better way?

Thanks,
redduke

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

You're correct that it is not officially supported, but there are users who use NinjaTrader 7 with IB Gateway without issue.

What it sounds like you have 'auto logon' enabled in your Interactive Brokers connection. In NinjaTrader 7, this is hard-coded to look for Interactive Brokers TWS (not Gateway). There is no way to auto logon to IB Gateway in NinjaTrader 7.

A less complicated way to do what you're doing would be:

• Disable 'auto logon' within your Interactive Brokers connection
• If you've entered login credentials, remove those as well
• Open IB Gateway and login
• Connect to IB in NinjaTrader

[RedDuke]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your reply. It was a bit better, but I still got TWS login screen (all credentials were blank) and I just clicked cancel. Should I uninstall TWS? Or I would need to keep clicking on cancel (not a big deal of course)

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

If TWS is popping up when you are initiating the connection from within NinjaTrader, this means that 'auto logon' is still enabled in the connect and/or credentials are entered in the connection.

Can you confirm that you disabled 'auto logon' and removed the credentials?

[RedDuke]

Yes, it is. Please see attached screen shot.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

I see, thanks. This may be the best scenario since there is no way to force NinjaTrader 7 to switch to Gateway instead of TWS.

[RedDuke]

Thanks for confirming. It just found it is a bit odd that behavior changed and wanted to make sure my steps are correct.

I only wish porting code from 7 to 8 would be easy. Facing a major rewrite of 1000s lines of source code.