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Ninja Trader
NinjaTrader is an industry leading trading platform that can provide you with the edge you need to be an effective trader. NinjaTrader is a FREE application for advanced charting, market analytics, system development and trade simulation. User friendly and flexible purchase options if and when you want to trade live.
NinjaTrader has excelled in the area of trade management with its innovative Advanced Trade Management (ATM) technology which protects your open positions through predefined strategies that you create which semi-automates stop loss and profit target brackets on order entry, trailing stops, auto-breakeven stops, and much more...
NinjaTrader is also a true end to end strategy development and automated trading platform. Develop your strategy concept, construct it, historically test it, optimize it, live simulation test it and then live deploy it.
Screenshots
![]() Advanced Chart |
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Order Entry |
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![]() Advanced STOP Strategy |
Get Started with NinjaTrader for Free
The free download has all of the standard features of the NinjaTrader program for trading simulations. If and when you ever decide you wish to use NinjaTrader for live trading simply select a Purchase Plan. Until then, enjoy unlimited use of the NinjaTrader software!
- Register for license key
A free license key will be sent to the email address you provide below. If you do not receive an email from NinjaTrader shortly, please check your junk email folder as sometimes spam filters do intercept them.
- Download NinjaTrader
After submitting your email address, you will be redirected to the download page. Alternately, download NinjaTrader here.
If you have any questions or would like assistance, please call us at 800-854-8738 during regular office hours, or contact NinjaTrader's Support Team.
Platform Highlights
- Advanced Trade Management (ATM) Features
- Automated Stop Loss and Profit Target Order Submission
- OCO (Once Cancels Other) Orders with Relational Intelligence
- Automatic Breakeven Stop Loss
- Automatic Trailing Stops
- Volume Based Simulated Stop Loss Orders
- SuperDom
- Quick order entry, exit, and scale in/out buttons
- Single click order entry and modification
- Highly visual order and position display
- Intelligent bracketed OCO orders on entry and while scaling in or out of a position
- Chart-based Order Entry
- Enter, modify, and cancel orders directly in a chart
- Monitor position size, average entry price and real-time profit and loss
- Use ATM strategies
- Advanced Charting
- Flexible Chart Styles, Intervals, and Comprehensive Visualization
- Over 100 Customizable Technical Indicators Included
- Develop Custom Indicators using NinjaScriptTM
- Trade Directly Within the Charts
- Market Analyzer
- Customizable Indicator Columns
- Real-time Rule-based Color Coding & Alerting
- Dynamic Ranking, Sorting and Filtering
- Strategy Development and Backtesting
- Strategy Creation for Non-Programmers
- Strategy Development using NinjaScriptTM
- High Performance Backtesting
- Real-Time Simulated Testing
- Real-Time Order Handling & Live Automation
Platform Fees
- There is no cost to download the NinjaTrader software.
- To use for live trading, there are multiple purchase options available.
- Transaction Fees are $0.50 per trade, or $0.10 per trade with a $1000 minimum.
System Requirements
- Minimum PC Requirements
- Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003 Operating System *
- Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768
- Minimum P4 Processor or higher
- 1GB RAM or higher on XP and 2GB or higher on Vista
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (pre-installed on most PCs or can
be downloaded here)
* 64 Bit OS is not currently supported



