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  NinjaTrader - Strategy Analyzer Tips

  * { box-sizing: border-box; } .row { display: flex; } /* Create three equal columns that sits next to each other */ .column { flex: 50.00%; padding: 5px; } NinjaTrader strategy analyzer has many features that you don't always know until after you have worked within the interface for a while... Seven quick tips for working with NinjaTrader Strategy Analyzer...  Epic Tip 1: Whenever you optimize an algo strategy, you can expand the minimum / maximum properties and type in each field, or simply type directly in the textbox.  It can take some work to go step by step through a strategies properties and setup the minimum and maximum values for optimization... but did you know you can also just type in the textbox within strategy analyzer? Option 1: Expand the properties settings and manually enter values for minimum, maximum, and the value to increment.  Option 2: Simply type in the values without expanding. The format is min;max;increment. So to increment values from 50 to 200 in increments of 25 it would look like: 50;200;25 Epic Tip 2: Tick Replay? Maybe not needed with high-fill resolution! Certain algo strategies (including most Epic Collection ...
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  Trading TD Ameritrade / thinkorswim with NinjaTrader

  Several customers have been wanting to trade TD Ameritrade / thinkorswim with algo trading and after they initially research this idea... they usually end up in an endless loop trying to backtest using TDA OnDemand (extremely limited), and then they also find out that although Thinkscript is easy to learn and similar to C#, there is no real way to actually enable (at least at this time and likely a while given the Charles Swab merger). So... For these clients some of the suggestions we have been utilizing several setups for Algo Trading with Epic Collection. I do want to point out several pros and cons when algo trading with TD Ameritrade and NinjaTrader: Cons (as far as I know, most of these are all known issues when searching the NinjaTrader forums): 1. TD Ameritrade doesn't provide tick data and doesn't seem to work well with intrabar setups where the stop loss might change over time.  2. Lots of errors pop up (which seems difficult or I can't find a way to disable) for things such as "no shares to short" messages. We ...
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  Epic Profits - NinjaTrader Strategy with 3 or 4 bar play

  Great example that outlines two short entries for Epic Profits 3 bar and 4 bar play against MNQ on a 3 min chart. Epic Profits is based on intrabar trade strategy for NinjaTrader which looks initially for a significant engulfing bar (potentially with higher and increasing volume)... Then waits for bar two or three to not go too high past the first engulfing bar, and also not lower than roughly 50% of the previous bar. At this point a market or stop market order is placed on bars 3 or bars 4 if a new higher high (for a long entry) is reached.  Many of the variables and specifications align with a mentor and stock guru Jared from live traders (special thanks Jared!). You can find how he designs the trade setup here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjj_L0gbUdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmGWPqfG5s&list=PLtwMG9NpaD7QOh50pwmXqjGMzsAojso-w&index=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/hch901/3_bar_play/ Would love to hear everyone feedback or screenshots of trading the 3 bar play with Epic Profits!     
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  Backtesting with ThinkOrSwim

  If you don't know how your indicator performs historically... why are you using it?   Hi fellow traders in the trader-hood!  Just got the new blog setup and wanted to start the first post off related to one of the most critical topics on indicators for thinkorswim or other platforms like Nina Trader. For the most part all of our indicators are heavily backtested against multiple timeframes and multiple types of trades from stocks to futures etc... We want to get the absolute best results because, well... we trade with them too! The only indicators we don't have backtesting for are the ones simply related to watchlists or for Epic Labels as these are extremely useful when trading but there really isn't a way to backtest against them.  If you have been looking around for indicators for a while, you know the biggest problem is that there are so many out there, majority are not documented, and even more important so many of them have not been backtested for a strategy to see if the results for buying and selling a stock would really (historically speaking) work ...
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  Epic Bounce with Crypto Futures

  Trading crypto futures with NinjaTrader and Epic Bounce strategy. 
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  NinjaTrader - Wait X Bars from Last Exit

  Feature: Wait X Bars from Last Exit Benefits: Avoid continued entry and/or exit, possibly in market conditions that are not suitable for the trading strategy.  We code a log of NinjaTrader strategies... and we like to provide tips for other developers or traders wanting to create custom strategies for NinjaTrader.  Sometimes the market doesn't always respond well to your algo strategy... In that situation, you want to avoid entry, often for money management and controlling your trading strategy. We use a special feature within NinjaTrader for this. We include this feature within all of the Epic NinjaTrader Indicators and strategies but you can reference the same code below: Within OnStateChange() BarsRequiredBeforeReEntry = 5;   Within Properties: [NinjaScriptProperty] [Display(Name = "Bars Required Before ReEntry", Order = 1, GroupName = "NashTech Order Entry")] public int BarsRequiredBeforeReEntry  { get; set; } Within OnBarUpdate: int BarsSinceExit; BarsSinceExit = 0;   if (BarsSinceExitExecution() != -1)                 {         BarsSinceExit = BarsSinceExitExecution();                                 if (BarsSinceExit < BarsRequiredBeforeReEntry)                     {             ...