I'm going to show you everything about the ninja Trader platform so you'll be able to read your charts and consistently execute profitable trades this video is going to start from the basics of how to set up your chart exactly how you want and I'll show you all the little tricks that I've learned over the years of using this platform a lot of the videos out there are just old or give a really basic overview and understanding all these little tips and tricks are really going to help you unlock the power of this trading platform so for the first time opening up ninja Trader you're going to have just this window right here and what you're going to have to do that what is different to other platforms is you have to go to connections up here and you're going to have to configure your connection now this is going to depend on if you're getting your data from Ninja Trader or just all the other options that they have here now if you're getting it from Ninja Trader I get mine from the ninja Trader Continuum maybe this has changed based on where they're at now but you're going to get details from them on how to do that and so when you set all that up you're going to just be able to to configure for it to connect every time and when you connect you're going to have a couple colors from the Dots here red is you're not connected there's something wrong yellow is you're connecting and green is you are connected and then the gray before is there's nothing happening and then when you connect you're going to have two accounts you're going to have your sim trading account here and your real account here and so to edit your sim trading account you just right click and you can edit account you can either reset this account to start it over or you can just change the initial amount that you have in it you can also add the commissions structure that you are using so it can match a live account as real as possible because commissions are a part of trading and then of course you have your real account here as well and so you don't have as much stuff you can really edit here you can change the fees on there that's just to reflect in their system because their system doesn't actually calculate on the platform but you can try and change it to make it as reflective as the real thing as possible now if you right click anywhere on here and go to properties you can change all the stuff that is shown up here in all the columns so there's a ton of stuff you can show here I don't really like showing a lot of this stuff because I like to take away the results and the account size because I don't like to think about that when I'm trading I think it's not good to be seeing how much your account is up or down all the time when you're trading it's best to just not focus on that stuff but that's how you change that stuff and then you have other tabs down here that will show your orders if you took any orders and your current positions and then any other logs and messages that you have now when you're actually connecting ninja Trader you have other data fee options and so if I just quickly pull up the ninja Trader website this is where you'll do it you'll go to your settings and account plans up here and then you can just change your Market data and so either you can use the main one that just cost $12 a month and get you everything or you can click this customize button and it will pring up every different Market you can subscribe to and for less money if you don't need everything now I never know what these things have really just click view all products and it will tell you exactly what it shows and what it gives you when you subscribe and so the CME that gives the es Futures the NASDAQ a lot of different other ones and so that's really what you can subscribe to right away and you know anything else that you might want now if you ever have any questions I would always reach out to ninja Trader support they're actually pretty helpful with answering specific questions now up here you have some other tabs to open an actual chart now just go to new up here and then go to chart and that'll bring up a couple settings here just go to you might not have right here this is your most recent ones you might not have any of those just go to Futures and then you know choose whatever you're trying to look at and so we'll just open up the es that's what the market is currently trading on so this number right here that's the expiration date yours might be different than this number the more current expiration date and then from here you can just change all the chart settings you can change minute values chart this value right here for a minute chart this would be saying it's a one minute chart you can change that to a 5 minute chart and then you can load data and so here I like to load a lot of days it allows you to scroll back a ton it doesn't really take that much data up on your computer so we can just load 80 days and then a lot of this other stuff is pretty either you don't really need to touch it or it's pretty self-explanatory you can change the colors of your candlesticks the outlines and all this stuff if I just click okay it'll bring up our chart all of those settings you can also access right here clicking this data series button at the top of the chart it'll bring up all those settings again and so you can go back and change stuff if you want and so just to make this full screen you can double click on it the top and so here's our chart and so quickly just to move things around you can just click and drag that'll usually just go back and forth it it will lock it and then to you know you know compress and expand you can drag the accesses and if I on a PC hold the left control on the aises you can also drag them that way and then up here at the top left you'll see an f and an arrow if I click the F it'll reposition everything properly and so if you're way off the chart it it'll snap you back to making it so the chart is always in the screen and then you see this distance right here you can make that go away by clicking that Arrow now if that distance like there is something you like you can actually right click on the chart go to properties and then right side margin right here you can increase that let's just put it 300 that'll increase it and make this your right side margin so then you can click the arrow back and this will always be there even if you click the arrow and so that will allow you to have kind of that space between the side of the chart if you like to see that for drawings and everything now at the top left here is all your basic settings you can do you can change it to a one minute chart or you can configure any other random ones they don't have here by default and then here are all your other settings you can change your candlesticks drawing tools this is where you'll find all your drawing tools you can click we can draw a line here and then you have other settings here that we'll go over in a minute now to go over a couple more drawing settings if you right click and go to properties you can scroll down and you can remove if you just don't like grid lines you just can click visibility off and that'll remove them and now another another setting for horizontal grid lines is if I right click on the Y AIS and go to properties you can change your horizontal grid lines what they're based off of so naturally it's set to automatic and you can change this to fixed and so initially if I hit apply and okay every grid line will be one point of value and so in the es one point is just one you know numeric going from 72 to 73 that is one point of value in this market and then you can go to change it to tick as well or they even have Pips for forx and so this makes it so every tick is one line so that makes it super easy to visually see one tick and you can see the Mark just flopping right between the ticks and so that's a really helpful change that you can add with your horizontal grid lines now another thing is if you rightclick you can find a lot of these settings on the right click properties as well so you can find drawing tools right here if I just go and let's take a trend line channel for instance you click it and then clicking on the chart and then you can click and drag it and you can move it around how you want based on whatever you're seeing and you can double click on it or right click on it to bring up your properties and so this goes for any drawing tool is you can change it to either be go on your specific chart or this setting means it's going to be on all es Futures charts of that contract expiration and so it it'll go across multiple charts if you have multiple on different screens and then you can change if you want to have the box filled you can change it by doing that this is what this opacity does you can remove that the whole visibility of it and then you can also just change the you know the colors of the grid lines or how thick they are and then another thing is what you'll see everywhere is the bottom right corner if you click on template that it says right here you can click save and so you can save your set either as a custom name that you make up or you can click save as default and so if you click save as default it'll replace the current default and then if you go to drawing tools again and find channel it'll have those exact settings every time so this is how you don't have to change the settings every time you can just have it exactly how you want and so to go over some other settings up here we can click the chart Trader and so that's we'll go over that a little bit more in a minute but that's how you bring up your active chart Trader tab for when you're actually trading and then you also have your indicators button up here and so this is where you'll find all your indicators or your custom indicators if you download them I have some custom indicators that I've made right here and so you just double click it'll add it to the chart and then you can mess around with the settings save it if you want and then just add it to the chart and so this will just put a little timer right here next to the Candlestick that just counts down when the Candlestick is done and so a big thing is when you're creating these charts and making all your settings exactly how you want a better way to to do it instead of creating a new chart is right clicking on this and either duplicating in a new tab you see now I have two down here or you can duplicate in a new window so that'll bring up just another window with all the exact same settings and so you won't have to recreate all those things again so and so that'll really help when you have things set up exactly how you want now to quickly show you a couple features here is this top left button you see these you see these two little GR squares here you can link your charts together so if I click here and I click red and I click here and click red again is any time I do something on this chart it'll do it on that chart as well now this is different from if we double click on our drawing and the setting here that makes it go across all charts and so this allows you to Target exactly where you want to do things and then there's a second option to do here as well if you want to link multiple across different ones and so that's a really nice setting to do if you want to have multiple things across your charts now one thing that was really frustrating about these new tabs down here is you can easily click this x button away and so right now I have the setting to where it asks you or prompts you to close that and so to change that just go to your main ninja Trader window go to tools up here go to options and then just under General it's the first thing here to check this box and so check that box will make it so it asks you to confirm any time you click close a window it'll confirm and it's really nice because just switching on your tabs down here very easy to accidentally hit that x button now one thing that is really really helpful with Ninja Trader is if you go to tools here there is hot keys and so what you can do with hot Keys is you have hotkeys for just about everything and so what it allows you to do is mainly I use it for drawing tools if we scroll down here you go to drawing tools you have all these hot keys that they already put in by default but you can go in here and change them so for like something like drawing lines I have here as F2 and so if I just go onto a chart and I just click F2 on my keyboard it brings up my drawing tool line that I can just easily draw without having to go up here drawing tools and find it so it makes it a lot quicker now there is also actually entry hot keys in here that you can use as well to enter in orders via hotkeys that is one way to quickly enter orders if you want now a big thing is how do you save everything and so I actually just goofed this up while I was filming and so what you want to do is you need to click save on one of these here and so if you just click save it'll save it under that name and so every time you open ninja ninja Trader you can set it as your default and it will open up your charts exactly like that every time if you click new here it'll restart everything from scratch and so that's how you can rebuild a new one but that that is will also wipe away what you were just working on and so but here you can reopen these up once you have saved them and so it'll allow you to easily populate your charts how you want every time now one thing that is really helpful is if you are ever unsure about something if you just click F1 on the tab it'll open up a help window on the internet through ninja Trader so I just clicked that basically the help F1 hotkey on the accounts Tab and it opens up the help on the accounts tab if I click this chart and I click it it'll open it up for the charts and so it'll allow you to anytime you're not sure about something or want to look at you know settings or anything it'll open that up for you and that is really really helpful for finding that what else probably the most powerful thing about Ninja Trader is their chart Trader Tab and so it's a little confusing when you first start out now this is how you will be able to enter in your trades and so what this does when you first bring it up just like this is it allows you when you right click on the chart you can now see that it'll bring up these options and so what this does if I click buy limit one here it'll put in a buy order right there and so how you control that number is this that here's your order quantity and so and then from there you can just click and drag and so if I want to you know move my order here I can if I want to try and get filled on that order I can move move it up to the current price and try and keep moving and then you can see right there it will fill that order and it says text here you bought at this number and so this text right here if you go up to your data settings you can remove this or change it so I can just have the little marker the little arrow or I can not have that shown if I don't want that shown and so that is another way to helpfully do that now if I want to manually add a stoploss you can do that by right clicking and say stop stop loss and so if the market comes down there it'll knock that out we can move that up here and essentially get filled on that and the market will then close out your trade now this is a really simple way to do it that I and I don't know if anyone really does really the power comes from your at the money strategy orders and so you won't have any of these when you first start out these are ones I've made and so what you need to do is Click custom and it will bring up this tab now again you can click F1 here to bring up the help because there is a lot of confusing stuff on this so what this does is it allows you to input essentially what's called an OC order and so what that means is when you enter in a trade right here you can have it enter in a stoploss immediately or profit Target immediately and so you can change your parameter type based on what you're trading and so we have to do it based on tick I think that's the best way to do it because that adjusts for whatever mark you're trading you can't do points sadly and so you can change how many targets you want and so we're trading one contract so we're just going to do one Target and so you can initially input your stop loss in I'm just going to do a 20 tick stop loss in so that's going to be a 4 point stop- loss and then we can set our profit Target at 20 points or 20 ticks as well and then if you want to add more complicated things you can you can add a stop strategy if you go to custom here you can make it so you can basically create a trailing stoploss and so it'll trigger based off of how many points your thing comes into profit and so you can say oh well if it gets 20 picks in my profit I want it to activate this trailing stop loss that I have set up here and so or or you can have you know any other different type of settings here I don't use any of those but they're there if you want now if you have multip contracts you can add another Target now remember that this means you have essentially two orders and so what you need to do is you need this number up here to match the total down here and so we would have to change this to a two to match the number of quantity down here and so we'll just keep it simple though at one at the moment and so again you can save this and I always would save this at something you know I like to save it as something that makes sense like this is a five contract order with a 1 to three risk reward ratio and so that kind of is how I remember it and then if you click okay it'll pop up here and so then what you can do is I'll just click buy market and it will enter in an order and you can see now our profit Target is there and our stop loss is there and they will be exactly four points away from where you entered and then you can always click and drag based on however you want now one thing is what you can do is right click anywhere over here and you can you know there's a couple other settings here but properties is important one thing is this first setting up here I was always suggest doing this third option that keeps selected because if you do display it'll actually remove it comes up with a warning here it'll remove those targets and you can't see them anymore and then this one will actually kind of change it when you enter in an order and so this one always keeps it selected so if you enter in one trade I can enter in another and it will do the exact same thing and so so what that allows you to do is you know it'll always keep this one selected for you which I think is the best way to do things now another thing is here just a couple random settings you can change how far this comes out on the screen this line all the lines really and then as well is you can dis change the display units and so what this does is you can you can change it to currency and so right here this is how you can change it to show how much money you're up and down and you can change it to Pips you can change it to none I personally show none on my actual screens on my recordings you'll see an actual dollar value there but I hide it because I always think you don't want to be focusing on the money when you're trading right and so that's one way I really do that and then another thing I actually do is I change the colors of my profit and stop loss to White because again it takes the emotions out of trading green being a good emotion and red being a bad emotion having the you know oh it's red it's bad it's coming towards where I don't want you know that it's more likely to trigger emotions and so those are settings I like to do I actually change the colors of my candlesticks as well to be blue and white cuz those are again more calming colors and so one thing really frustrating about Ninja Trader active Trader tab is entering in orders quickly now I like to enter in really right when a Candlestick closes and so trying to enter in here sometimes can be hard to do and so one thing I have found really helpful that I've created is if we go to indicators here and I'll just add this is It's a click Trader and so other platforms have this I have no clue why ninja Trader doesn't have this but what it does is it allows you to essentially have a hotkey and click entering into the chart very rapidly and so when things are moving quick it really helps with that and also one thing that happens if if you're look trying to enter in at the current price sometimes you'll see is it will get rejected and so I'm trying to enter in with a buy stop here and if it's below price that'll get rejected if the price moves so quickly and so if we if I just try and show that if I click buy stop above the current price and the current price actually goes above that value it will actually reject that order and so you see I tried to fill there and it it rejected me and so when the Market's moving quickly that is really really frustrating and so what this thing does is it will it will input actually a secondary order it'll input a market if touched order and you can see that right here just a MIT that's a called and so that's something that I've found really really useful with trading on the ninja Trader platform that's just a really quality of life upgrade now when you're using ninja Trader a really powerful thing is your custom indicators that you can install to install a custom indicator usually they'll give you a zip file and then you just go to tools up here in your main platform and just go to import in the ninjas script add-on and then you will you know wherever you put the zip file you'll just add that in here and then wherever that file is you just install it and then to find it generally if it's an indicator just go to indicators up here and then a lot of time you'll either find it in here as a custom name or there'll be a folder at the Top If you have multiple installed now one thing that ninja Trader doesn't do good is their risk reward drawing tool and so right here I have created a custom one and if you go and click and drag and so what it does is it tells you how many contracts you need to trade to fit a certain risk amount and so for me if I just double click it here I my risk is at $600 per trade and so what it does is if I just add the risk reward here it will tell you how many contracts you need to trade to based on where your stop is going to be located and then where you're going to enter based on those parameters and so here to hit around close it it does it roughly to hit six 12 in terms of risk I need to trade seven contracts and then it will put up here actually how much you'll make if it hits you know one times two times or three times your risk it'll show you know you're going to make $1,800 here at 3x and so that's how I trade because I enter based on candlesticks and then put stop losses below levels and so that's how I like to do that and then you can add or or or change things in here there's a couple settings I won't get into it too much but that is something that I found really really beneficial for entering in your trades because otherwise calculating how much you want to put in on every trade is kind of complicated and when the market again is moving quickly isn't easy to do quickly so cool thing that you can do is you can actually play back data and days if you want so if you want to go and play back a day just go to connections up here and go to playback and then it'll just bring up download data and so just go to whatever marker you're wanting to do and then if we just want to play back yesterday you can click download and it will download the data and then what you want to do is you go to market re replay up here click on whatever Market you just downloaded and then find the date and so here we have 123 to 124 and we click continue and then what you need to remember is you actually have to close out your other connections and so we can just go here disconnect and then play back and redo that clearly I don't know everything about n Trader off the top of my head and then just continue it from there and so from there it'll bring up a little box here make sure you click on Market replay data if you just did one day don't just do day to day make sure you do the day for and then click play and then it'll set things up for you and then what you can do here is you can either change the playback speed and then this is your bar for changing how it played out and so what we can do is if we go to you know when the Market's open let's say 635 that's when the Market opens for me generally it's 9:30 but then it will play back the data and you can see here you can play it and you can also pause it and then this is a minute chart but again remember it's 4X and so it'll go a lot quicker and so that's how you play back data and then from there you can pretty much just do anything you want like a a normal chart and so what we can do here is if you go to new you can actually go to trade performance and so you can bring up your trade performance over previous times and so what you can do here is if you click on this little filter if you want to make sure you're looking at one account and so if we just look at my main account here and then you can change what you're looking at and so this will just say okay I'm looking at Futures you can change what templates you're looking at this is your at the money template and then it will just show you how much you're up it it'll give you a ton of data here now the only problem with this is a lot of the times your data can be corrupt and so I lose this data all the time and so if we just go to last month essentially the month of November as you can see okay here I am up $4,000 for the month and that's actually not true because if you well you can actually to go here as well you can analyze and it will show you actually a chart and that's because it only shows the last three trades I took that month and so on ninja Trader actually if you go to your account here and go to statements you can pull up either your live or demo and you can go to Performance and so if we go to last month it'll bring up your actual performance of the month now the the stuff in the Ninja Trader platform that's theoretical it's generally pretty dang accurate but it doesn't take into account your commissions your fees and anything else and so this is where you can see I actually lost my data for that that last month actually last month I was up close to $10,000 and then here you can see all the trades and again more data and then you can also go to this year last year custom dates and so that's one thing that's really helpful about Ninja Trader it's really cool that they have it on this platform but it sucks that for me at least I find that the data gets corrupted a lot of the time especially trying to upgrade and update the system now if you want to see the strategy I used on ninja Trader to make close to $10,000 last month this video right here will walk you through a step-by-step tutorial of that strategy I use every day