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Kinetick Market Data

Fast Unfiltered Free End-Of-Day Data for Stocks, Futures, and Forex

Who is Kinetick?

Kinetick is a data service provided by NinjaTrader specifically designed to deliver real-time market data for use within the platform. It provides traders with access to a wide range of financial instruments, including stocks, futures, and forex, offering both real-time data and historical market data for backtesting and analysis. Kinetick offers high-quality data, it is particularly popular for its low-latency, real-time data feeds, which are essential for day traders and active market participants.

Kinetick offers FREE end-of-day data for stocks, futures, and Forex


How to Connect to Kinetick?

In order to connect to Kinetick for real or free end-of-day data, you will need to download the NinjaTrader platform and when you start and login to the platform follow the steps below.


Free End-Of-Day Market Data

  • Start NinjaTrader Desktop.
  • Select the connections option from the menu.
  • Choose 'Kinetick End Of Day (free)'
NinjaTrader Kinetick Free Market Data

Real Time Market Data

In order to trade with a live account using real-time market data you will need to subscribe to Kinetick with a live NinjaTrader account. It is also important that you enable the Multi-Provider Mode in the platform.

  • Make sure you have NinjaTrader 8 or later installed.
  • A valid Kinetick account with username and password.
  • Start NinjaTrader Desktop.
  • Select the connections option from the menu and choose 'Configure'.
NinjaTrader Kinetick Market Data Configuration

A pop-up window will appear showing the various market data providers, you need to select the Kinetick option in the available broker list. Click on the 'add' link and you will see a new entry to configure.

  • Select Kinetick from available connections.
  • Click on the 'add' link.
  • Select the new 'My Kinetick' entry.
  • In tne properties window enter your Kinetick username and password.
NinjaTrader Kinetick Market Data Set-up

There are some additional properties to update, like renaming the connection, and automatically connecting when you start NinjaTrader. Use back adjusted data, if enabled you will be working with continuous futures contracts and want the historical data to be back adjusted.