Accounts and TIF issue

[Yaron]

Hi,

After loading NT7, I first connect to Kinetic end of day free and only then to CQG. This causes all the charts to switch accounts from live to sim and I have to manually change back each chart to live. Furthermore, it causes all ATM strategies to change their TIF to 'Day' so I have to change each strategy to 'Gtc' manually. As I trade swings this is an issue.

How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Yaron

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hello,

Thank you for writing in.

When you connect to Kinetick before connecting to your CQG based account the Sim101 account will always be selected immediately. Unfortunately, no work around to automatically select the live account with this type of setup is possible.

In terms of the TIF drop down menu, this default selection is based on alphabetical order. There is no way to specify that NinjaTrader use the GTC setting by default.

[Yaron]

Hi Kyle,

I understand the conflict with the sim account but the Gtc issue is bad design. Is it addressed in NT8?
It should be part of the Strategy parameters which are saved per strategy. This will be very helpful for swing traders. I really don't want to find by mistake my trades without brackets after 24 hours...

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Within NinjaTrader 8 yes the TIF is saved as a part of the ATM Strategy template.