Zen-Fire

Zen-Fire is a market data provider for futures that is used by multiple futures brokers.

Pro	Con
Reliability	Lack of symbol lookup
Unfiltered tick data	-

Features and limitations

Features

• Unfiltered tick data. Zen-Fire avoids dropping price data and sending only the latest updates – sometimes referred to as "filtering". Hereby, Zen-Fire keeps the prices current and provides a true look at how the markets are trading.
• High quality data for Futures.
• One data feed for receiving data from multiple exchanges (CME, NYMEX, NYBOT, Eurex, ICE, Liffe, Matif among others) - without needing a separate subscription to each exchange.

Limitations

• Zen-Fire provides a very limited amount of historical data; historical tick data is only available for the current session, though minute date is available over a somewhat longer time span.

Zen-Fire brokers

The following brokers provide the Zen-Fire data feed:

• AMP Futures,
• Mirus Futures,
• Optimus Futures.

Zen-Fire trail (demo)

A Zen-Fire trail to test the data feed yourself can be achieved through one of the supporting brokers or through (LINK HERE). The trail has no limitations but will expire after a specified amount of time (two to three weeks).

Note that the Zen-Fire demo for NinjaTrader also works on MultiCharts, as long as you have a Zen-Fire username and accompanying password.

Setting up Zen-Fire

Setting up order execution

1. Verify the registration information such as login and password received from Zen-Fire.
   • Demo accounts normally have a user name ending on '@sim.com', while funded accounts normally have the email address of the account holder.
2. Go in the MultiCharts main window to File -> Broker Profiles -> Manage Broker Profiles and click on New >.

In the Broker Profiles screen, new data connections can be made to the various Zen-Fire options

1. Choose here one of the following:
   • Select Zen-Fire to set up an regular, live Zen-Fire connection,
   • Select Zen-Fire Local Sim to set up an internal demo account where trades are being executed against MultiCharts' own simulation engine,
   • Or choose Zen-Fire/Rithmic Server Sim to set up an demo account on the Zen-Fire servers.
     • Note: contact your representative at your broker to get the login credentials for this demo account.
2. After having chosen Zen-Fire, type in your username and password.
   • The other settings can be left untouched.
3. After having chosen Local Sim, set the Simulator Options to your liking.
4. After having chosen Zen-Fire/Rithmic Server Sim type in your username and password for the Zen-Fire server demo account.
   • The other settings can be left untouched.

Setting up Zen-Fire real-time data

After you have set up your connection with Zen-Fire, you'll need to add a symbol in MultiCharts' QuoteManager to start receiving data.

To create a symbol using Zen-Fire as the Data Source see Adding Symbol(s) to Symbol list section.