How To Get NinjaTrader Live Data For Free

How do I get live data on NinjaTrader 8?
Futures / Stocks Data
Free Data Options

What Data Providers Can I Use?
Kinetick (Owned by NinjaTrader)
Trial AvailableBarChart
Coinbase
Free Crypto DataContinuum
CQG
cTrader
eSignal
FOREX.com
Free FX DataFXCM
Free FX DataRithmic
IQFeed
Trial AvailableOanda
Free FX DataInteractive Brokers
TD Ameritrade

What Data Provider Should I Use?
How Much Does Paid NinjaTrader 8 Data Cost?
What is Non-Professional Data?
Do I Qualify for Non-Professional Data?

Free and Trial Options for NinjaTrader Live Data
CQG - Futures Data (Free NinjaTrader Live Data)
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Provider: CQG
- NinjaTrader Live Data: Yes
- Get Your Data: Get A Free Data Connection for Futures
You can get futures data from CQG that will get you live data (not delayed data) for a period of 2 weeks. We have noticed that sometimes it can take up to an hour before the account information will be delivered to your email. However, in more recent times we've seen this speed increased to about 5 minutes.
FXCM - Forex Data (Free NinjaTrader Live Data)
- Duration: Doesn't Expire
- Provider: FXCM
- NinjaTrader Live Data: Yes
- Get Your Data: Get A Free Data Connection for Forex
The forex data is also in real time and provides you to access for FX live real-time quotes for forex traders. This account data is delivered within 5 minutes of signing up and so far from what we have seen this will never expire. It also works great if you're going to be using our XABCD Pattern software for NinjaTrader 8.
Paid Options for NinjaTrader Live Data
IQFeed - Forex Data (Paid NinjaTrader Live Data)
- Cost: Varies but starts at $30/month with a $50 startup fee
- Duration: Month by Month Fees
- Provider: IQFeed
- NinjaTrader Live Data: Yes
They offer the most symbols that we've seen in the most markets right down to some of the obscure instruments. However, this comes at a cost. The more symbols you also scan at once, the more you can expect to pay depending on how many exchanges you need. The cost could be reasonable, all the way to pretty expensive. They do have a calculator where you can figure out what your monthly fees will be in total.
9 Comments on “How To Get NinjaTrader Live Data For Free”
They suck, never disclosed all the additional fees (data) to actually use their platform that is supposed to be free! Also, no ACH only wire and mailing checks, they also charge you a fee to get your money withdrawn. Piss poor service STAY AWAY!
Hey Chad, who and what are you talking about? Need details for people to understand your rant 🙂
He’s talking about ninja trader, not the data providers
Yeah from what I got from it “ACH only wire and mailing checks” he’s talking about brokers and not the ninjatrader software. etrade is another one that charges for withdraws… see one thing many people get focused on is how much a trade cost in commission but they don’t factor in all the other costs…. like withdraw fees or interest charged or any other of the number of fees they can do… sometimes the cheapest commission isn’t always the best choice (and other times it could be) .. thats why the individual trader needs to make that call for which broker to go too and do a cost analysis before hand… the paper work for some of them is crazy so pays to do the work first 🙂
Followed the direction “verbatim” signing up for Kinetick, “All 4 Level I Globex – $5”.
As part of the sign up you just enter CC details before knowing what you are being charged hoping you get the $5 deal. When connecting I checked the log and sure enough I did not get the validation message!
Today I received invoice email for $65 for 1 month, have entered to support emails for this to be corrected and refunded, no reply as of yet.
Hello, I think your trying to reach Kinetick? You’ll have to visit your data provider…we just create pattern software here. Id reach out to them or see if ninjatrader support can help you… Best of luck.
looking to go back to ninjatrader – wanting to use one platform to trade across forex index
The duration of the fxcm data feed seems to be limited to 30days now.
Hello, I had asked in our community if anyone is still using them to get a larger sample size today and there are quite a number of people with them. If your just referring to an email, yes they do mention 30 days but all of the accounts work past that as I hope you will find too 🙂