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How to Add a Custom Plot to Your NinjaTrader Strategy (Step-by-Step)

How to Add a Custom Plot to Your NinjaTrader Strategy (Step-by-Step)

Learn how to add a custom plot to your NinjaTrader 8 strategy using either the Strategy Builder or manual code. Visualize internal values like moving average slopes or momentum scores during playback.

How to Use Alternating Body Color and a Donchian-Based Range Filter to Improve Entry Timing in NinjaTrader 8

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How to Use Alternating Body Color and a Donchian-Based Range Filter to Improve Entry Timing in NinjaTrader 8

That’s where this simple but effective NinjaTrader strategy comes in. It uses alternating body candles for entry signals and filters them using a Donchian Channel-based range filter. This guide will show you exactly how it works and how to install and test it yourself.

Unlocking Profit Potential: Building and Testing Trading Ideas with TdjSourceBaseStrategy in NinjaTrader 8

Unlocking Profit Potential: Building and Testing Trading Ideas with TdjSourceBaseStrategy in NinjaTrader 8

TdjSourceBaseStrategy—a powerful tool designed to simplify the testing and development of trading strategies. Developed by traders for traders, this abstract class allows you to extend and implement only the entry logic, facilitating quick testing of ideas.

Visibility and Scope of Variables [Lesson 6]

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Visibility and Scope of Variables [Lesson 6]

Understanding how variables are scoped and accessed is crucial for writing efficient and organized code. We will delve into the differences between local and global variables, and discuss strategies for managing variable visibility to enhance coding efficiency.

Unlocking the Power of C# Methods in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies: Enhancing Clarity and Reusability [Lesson 5]

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Unlocking the Power of C# Methods in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies: Enhancing Clarity and Reusability [Lesson 5]

Methods provide a powerful tool for encapsulating logic into modular code blocks, allowing for better organization, improved readability, and increased flexibility in our trading strategies.

Conditional Statements and Control Flow in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 4]

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Conditional Statements and Control Flow in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 4]

Conditional statements allow you to make decisions in your code based on certain conditions. In NinjaTrader 8, the most commonly used conditional statement is the if statement. Let's start by exploring some smaller examples before we dive into the comprehensive OnBarUpdate method.

Operators and Expressions in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 3]

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Operators and Expressions in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 3]

Operators are symbols that perform specific operations on variables and values, allowing you to manipulate and compare data within your trading strategies and indicators. Understanding operators is essential for building powerful and dynamic trading logic.

Understanding Variable Types in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 2]

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Understanding Variable Types in NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 2]

In this post, we will dive deeper into the topic of variable types, which are essential building blocks for developing robust and dynamic trading strategies and indicators in NinjaTrader 8.

Getting Started with NinjaScript Editor: Creating Your First Basic Indicator

Getting Started with NinjaScript Editor: Creating Your First Basic Indicator

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of opening the NinjaScript Editor and creating a basic indicator in NinjaTrader. By following these steps, you'll have a handy reference for future indicator creations, saving you time and effort. Let's dive in!

Introduction to C# Programming for NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 1]

Introduction to C# Programming for NinjaTrader 8 Trading Strategies [Lesson 1]

Unleash your trading potential with C# programming for NinjaTrader 8. Learn to code and test your trading ideas. Combine simplicity and complexity to create winning strategies. Join us on this journey of empowerment and innovation in trading.

NinjaTrader 8 How to add parameters - Complete Guide

NinjaTrader 8 How to add parameters - Complete Guide

In this article, we are going to create a NinjaTrader 8 indicator to see the different parameters that we can add to it.

Adding Parameters to your NinjaTrader 8 Indicator

Adding Parameters to your NinjaTrader 8 Indicator

In the previous article, we created a NinjaTrader 8 indicator. The goal was to write a simple Inside Bar Indicator preceded by three bars that make consecutive lower lows and lower highs or consecutive higher lows and higher highs. What if we decided to modify it a little bit, by

Tutorial: Writing a NinjaTrader 8 Inside Bar Indicator

Tutorial: Writing a NinjaTrader 8 Inside Bar Indicator

In this tutorial, we are going to create a simple indicator to practically demonstrate the point I was trying to make in the previous article (Is automating your trading easy?). We are going to create a simple inside bar indicator for NinjaTrader 8. The indicator will color orange the inside