Data access for backtesting for a non funded account.

[RISKYBUSINEZZ]

I've been working to develop my strategy on the Ninja trading platform (I have purchased the lifetime license), however I was using the backtesting feature with the complimentary historical data provided for free.

My free data trial has expired or will expire soon. How can I get access to data 1 min data without funding my account? I don't want to pay the Non-trading fee in case it takes me longer than 3 months to program my strategy.

Per the information I've received, you will be charged a fee if you fund your account after 3 months but haven't placed a trade. So for now I want a nonfunded account with just the data feed so I can backtest.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello RISKYBUSINEZZ,

Instead of a brokerage account (which requires funding) you could subscribed to a data feed instead such as Kinetick or IQFeed.

https://kinetick.com/Subscribe

http://www.iqfeed.net/index.cfm

Below is a link to the help guide on data types supported for each connection type.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/data_by_provider.htm

And a link to the connection guides.

https://ninjatrader.com/Help-Connection-Guides

[RISKYBUSINEZZ]

From the links you sent it appears a basic data stream from kinetic, would cost a little over 70$ a month which is pretty steep and then you would have to add futures symbols on top of that bringing the cost significantly higher. 69$ adder for ES mini for example and 121$ for some other things that seems ludicrous for historical data if it were a one time fee it might be tolerable, but at those prices, it becomes very undesirable.

From what I am reading on ninja traders site it seems I would be charged an additional 12$ a month for top of book data once my account is active, but if I already get a data feed from somewhere else why would I be charged the 12$ a month?

Is this really the only options?

All I'm trying to do is get a data feed so I can back test my strategies in the most cost efficient way possible.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello RISKYBUSINEZZ,

Those are only options for real-time data and up-to-date historical data. You can get discounted data with an active funded brokerage account, or you can subscribe to a data feed.

For historical tick only, you could look into cqgdatafactory, tickdata.com, or something that provides historical tick data for download that is compatible with ninjatrader.

[RISKYBUSINEZZ]

Thank you, I'll see if any of these will work better. I'll just have to do what I can.