LearnerGuru Member  Posts: 29 Joined: 12/3/2009  User Profile | Nothing to do with datafeed and IB, or having OT Pro - its the OT trading platform itself. Nirvana has separate license for sale based on preference to trading Stocks v.s. Futures on any OT / VT platform. If you have Futures license, than you can trade both Stocks & Futures, but most N-customers have only Stocks license. OT immediately recognizes the "futures" symbols and blocks it if license is not available. Here are some of the limitations if you do not have OT Futures platform license instances: - cannot trade Futures on OmniPilot, ATM, etc. - cannot do AI training (even EOD) - cannot work with GA, NN, etc. in Strategy Blocks - which in turn, do not work with Strategy Wizard to tune individual symbols - etc... Everything (Futures symbol) works fine on OT, indicators, systems, strategies, OL, etc... but when you go to fine-tune your Futures strategy block(s), or use OP/ATM, you will quickly find the internal calcs for Futures symbol(s) do not work. To trade individual Future symbols, each (strategy(ies)) need to be trained separately due to their unique personalities (unlike trading Stocks) - Eminis not same as trading Aussies or (Yen, Pesos, Rands), v.s. Gold/Silver/Copper, or yet, trading Crude vs Heating Oil contracts, and better yet, Bitcoin futures. Basically, in short, without the license - cannot AI train a "custom" strategy, or use some of the Strategy Blocks, etc. for Futures / Commodities-based "Symbols". For example, I can trade the eminis manually, thru IB without any issue - but I cannot auto-trade or develop custom strategies without having the Futures license. | |
