NinjaTrader Updates You Should Know About

Kraken money = NT on steroids

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There are no guarantees that any performance you see here will continue in the future. I recommend using ATS strategies in simulated trading until you/we find the holy grail of trade strategy. This is strictly for learning purposes.

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I’m not just developing strategies—I’m on a quest for the holy grail of automated trading. Questions? Check the FAQs first, then feel free to reach out directly: AutomatedTradingStrategies@protonmail.com.

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Quick shoutout to all the fathers—whether you're teaching your kids about risk management, explaining why daddy works weird hours, or just trying to build a better future for your family through trading—Happy Father's Day! May your trades be green and your family time uninterrupted.

Let’s get into it…

The 30-Second Summary

• FVG Indicator = money printer finder (no more manual rectangles!)

• Time Highlighter

• Bug Fixes That Actually Matter

• Platform Upgrades That Don't Suck

• Everything faster = less lag, more profit

• The Kraken Era

• Prop firm strategy update

• More to come

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As expected, Ninjatrader is finally making some major platform updates. Between AI and the Kraken buyout, changes are coming in very quickly. These are the updates I want ATS readers to know about:

• Fair Value Gap Indicator: Finally, a built-in tool that spots price imbalances. Whether you call them FVGs, imbalances, liquidity voids, or inefficiencies— this indicator finds them all:

  • Green = gap up (bulls partying too hard)

  • Red = gap down (bears had too much coffee)

  • Auto-extends until filled

• Time Highlighter: Mark your power hours on the chart. Perfect for:

  • ETH trading windows

  • "I only trade the first 90 minutes" group

  • Avoiding that dead zone after lunch

• New Error Handling For Automated Traders:

  • Your strategy keeps running even when stuff breaks

  • No more 2 am wake-up calls

  • You still need to check your logs. Errors are logged, but won't disable your strategy

  • This is great for high frequency strategies (HWR) or strategies with a tight take profit or stop loss

• Invert Your Charts: This is what I call the fresh perspective hack. I’m in love with this feature. Flip any panel upside down. Because sometimes you need a different perspective (or just want to mess with folk).

  

  This feature is actually pretty useful for things like:

  • Comparing inverse ETFs

  • Analyzing currency pairs from different perspectives

  • Pattern recognition from a fresh angle

  • Making your losing trades look like winners (joke!)

Bug Fixes That Actually Matter

• ATM saves work properly—no more "why is my ATM acting weird?"

• Strategy Analyzer keeps your settings—stops resetting to 1-minute bars like a trader with OCD

• SuperDOM stacking works—pull/stack orders without the platform having a seizure

• IB connection stays alive—fewer "connection lost" heart attacks

• Trade Performance time filtering—analyze your winners without the lunch break disasters (I love this one!!!)

Platform Upgrades That Don't Suck

• Schwab is Live (Not Beta!)

  • Real trading now (if you have the add-on)

  • Hot lists for momentum traders

• Search for Indicators—Type what you want, find it instantly. No more scrolling through 200 indicators.

  

Looking Ahead (The Kraken Era)

• In case you missed it, Kraken dropped $1.5 billion on NinjaTrader. What's coming:

  • Near Term:

    • Feature-parity mobile app (trade from the bathroom my friends)

    • Community plugin marketplace (buy that indicator your buddy swears by)

    • More frequent updates (like I said, they now have Kraken money)

• The Crypto Play:

  • Multi-asset platform: futures, forex, AND crypto in one place

  • On-chain flow overlays (see what the whales are doing)

  • 24/7 markets

• More money = faster development. That annoying bug you've lived with for 2 years? Probably getting fixed. That feature you've begged for? It actually might happen.

Action Items (after you've recovered from Father's Day BBQs)...

• Update to 8.1.5 (seriously, the drawing tools alone are worth it)

• Test the FVG indicator on your main timeframe

• Enable error handling for overnight strategies

• Start thinking about crypto integration for your strategies

There’s also word that NT might be getting into the prop firm game…more on that later in the week.

Coming up…

• End of quarter (Q2) review.

• Q3 portfolio reveal. Adding new strategies from the Incubator. I know I say this every quarter, but this is going to be the best quarter yet.

• Prop firm strategies update: The latest LLM models (OpenAI03Pro and Claude Opus 4) so of course I had to ask them to create a strategy for the LLM Prop Firm Competition. These new strategies are definitely taking it to the next level. Both strategies have feature sets that are truly unique and I look forward to sharing them with you. You can read more about this ongoing project here. Here’s a quick update on forward test results from current LLM strategies after last week:

• Event study, now that we have AI, we can do a real event study on things like FOMC rate changes, Triple Witching, etc. We can even work backwards by conducting a cluster analysis using unsupervised ML techniques.

• AI and Agentic Trading: Machine Learning Applications For Trading (Part 6) scheduled for end of June/early July.

• Using Information Theory To Determine Bar Type & Frequency (Part 2) scheduled for end of July/early August.

Skies the limit folks. So much is happening all around us. As dark as it is in some places, there’s so much to be grateful for. Make the time to hug those people you love and make this your best trading week yet.

Happy trading, and may all your FVGs fill in your favor.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please send them along.

Contact: Celan @ AutomatedTradingStrategies@protonmail.com