
Discover how algorithmic trading uses coded instructions to automate buy and sell decisions, highlighting graphical analysis, volatility analysis, and price arbitrage analysis, while enabling 24/7 market access and risk management.
Learn how to implement a trailing stop in NinjaTrader using the Strategy Builder to dynamically protect profits and manage risk as prices move.
Backtesting validates trading strategies with historical data across varied market conditions to assess viability. Optimize parameters cautiously to prevent overfitting, monitor drawdown, and uphold risk control for real-market performance.
Create an automated trading strategy using the Darvas box indicator in NinjaTrader's strategy builder, set take profit and stop loss, and backtest on Nasdaq with a 16-minute timeframe.
Explain why double type variables fit trailing stop calculations for decimals, and show how trailing levels adjust with price moves for long and short positions to form a strategy.
Learn to limit open orders in NinjaTrader strategies by configuring the builder's default properties, setting entries to one, and adding a market position condition to prevent multiple concurrent trades.
In this introductory course, you will learn from scratch how to create an automated strategy on the professional trading platform Ninjatrader using the Strategy Builder, without needing programming skills. You'll utilize technical indicators and understand the strategy's purpose.
Learn how to install the platform with Ninjatrader 8 and Ninjatrader NT version to start building strategies.
Gain proficiency in correctly interpreting a chart.
Discover how to identify recurring patterns across different market assets.
Utilize the various types of indicators available in Ninjatrader.
Familiarize yourself with the Ninjatrader ecosystem as a working tool.
Establish a workflow that can make a strategy profitable.
Create variables in strategy development.
Understand how Strategy Analyzer can assist in Ninjatrader.
Learn how to activate technical indicators in strategy development.
Build your portfolio of strategies to diversify risk.
Optimize a strategy by combining different variables and entry/exit conditions for each trade.
Understand the past to comprehend the present market conditions.
NinjaTrader is renowned for its unique combination of high-performance trading platform and real-time support.
NinjaTrader will always be FREE for advanced charting, backtesting, and trade simulation purposes.
This course is periodically updated with new strategies, created and improved by the instructor and the community of students who are part of the Ninjatrader official vendors ecosystem.