ZenFire Issue with Orders Above/Below Market

[NinjaTrader_VinceB]

Hi,

Open eCry uses a different datafeed than Zen-Fire. We are not a datafeed provider and work like a radio receiver. We display what is provided. Unfortunately we don't have control over what is provided.

[TraderGuy]

unkelmark,

As another reference point.

I ran ZenFire along side of IB today and did not see any large differences, except the ZenFire feed was faster.

Regards,
Guy

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Its very possible that OEC feed was lagging behind Zen-Fire.

[aslane]

I think I may have figured this out. I was still continuing to get these messages and could not figure out what was happening since none of my code changed.

I was executing the TS strategy on symbol @er2 when getting the errors. I copied the chart and changed the symbol to ER2H08 to force the contract. The errors immediately went away.

It is not time to be rolling over to June just yet, so why is the symbol not getting converted into the front month when it gets sent across to NT?

Seems like a clear NT bug.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

No bug here...Just means that you have not set up mapping correctly.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/TradeStationSymbolMapping.html

[aslane]

Yes, I should have looked at the mapping, and it was set to the default mapping.

But there is another issue here. This was working just fine for a long time, then suddenly this week this stopped working. What would cause this mapping to get reset? Would installing of a new version of NT do this? Would an uninstall/reinstall do this?

I was reinstalling while trying to figure out a different problem, but I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that this setting was maintained.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Any instrument reset or deleting database would cause this.

[aslane]

Niether of these was done by me.

[aslane]

Ok, this is still not working. Here is what I did:

* installed 6.5.0.10 (latest and greatest)
* tried it with my current instruments (did not work)
* reset instruments & restarted NT (did not work)
* changed ER2 mapping per instructions to "ER2|03-08" for external entry (did not work)
* restarted NT one more time (did not work)

The continuous contract @er2 is not being mapped properly, and is mapping to the June contract.

I am working around it for the moment using the front month symbol, but I would like to figure out why this is not working correctly.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

If its mapping to June then somehow the setting ER2|03-08 is not set.

I would check again that this is in fact set.
Restart NT
Check again that this setting is there
Then try.

[aslane]

Hard to believe, but it is set and I actually visually looked at it the first time when I set it up :-)

I also did as you asked, and it is set and not lost. The mapping is not taking place.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Unfortunately I am then out of ideas as it works as designed here on my test. If I think of what else could cause this I will report back.

[aslane]

Well instead of just throwing darts and trying it on your system (which always seems to work), how about we try to debug the problem. If you send me a debug build I would be happy to run it and help you figure it out.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I can have a support rep follow up and remote into your computer. Please send a note to support and reference this post.

[NinjaTrader_Eamon]

Hello,

Please send a note with your phone number, addressed to my attention to Support AT NinjaTrader dot Com.