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Multi-asset trading platform NinjaTrader said on Monday it has released NinjaTrader 8, the latest and most advanced version of the platform, that presents more than 500 various enhancements. The new platform has charting, market analysis, market data, interface and backtesting upgrades, among others (read on to find more about the new features).
“We are excited to introduce NinjaTrader 8 as it will provide traders with more functionality and flexibility than ever before,” said Raymond Deux, founder and CEO of NinjaTrader Group. “Redesigned with a focus on greater performance, optimized navigation & expanded analysis capabilities, NinjaTrader 8 equips our traders with the dynamic tools they need while laying the groundwork for future product development,” he added.
The platform is designed for trading in forex, futures, and equities. It is available free of charge and is used by more than 40,000 traders worldwide. The NinjaTrader platform is supported by Forex Capital Markets (FXCM), Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, and others.
NinjaTrader is a product of by US-based NinjaTrader Group. The company was founded in 2003 and, together with its subsidiaries, offers trading software and brokerage services.
Following are some key upgrades to the NinjaTrader 8:
Enhanced charting functionality
- Drag and drop functionality to move indicators and chart bars between tabs or windows
- Data Series option to “Center” the last traded price on the price scale
- Horizontal & vertical scrolling by holding the CTRL key
- Improved Equidistant bar spacing mode for viewing multi-series charts mixing non-time based bar intervals
- Option to break bars on Data Series for each new EOD session or to continue building until completed
- Extended interval selector for customization of any bar type and interval
- “No Time Scroll” Crosshair mode with the ability to “lock” a cross hair at a specific time
- Ability to enable Chart Trader and NinjaScript Strategies simultaneously from the same window to visualize strategy orders and positions from a single chart
New market analysis features 
- Add indicators on the Price Column display to visualize key market values relative to your specific style of trading
- Dynamically add or remove price levels by resizing the SuperDOM window
- Configure new columns such as Volume, PnL, Notes, Average Position in Queue (APQ) or custom columns developed by 3rd parties
- Automatically “Hold” the Dynamic SuperDOM by hovering mouse over the price ladder display
- Configure 10+ levels of market depth on the bid and ask (limited only by the exchange/provider)
New market data engine
- Sub-second market data time stamps now stored to meet demand for higher precision
- Historical Bid/Ask prices now stored with each last trade tick data
- Import, export, edit, and download market data (including market replay) all in one location
- Set a preferred connection to obtain historical or real-time data from your choice of providers per instrument type
New Alerting System
- Compare two data series or indicator values from an existing chart or market analyzer window
- Build conditions around existing market data components, indicators, or drawing objects
- Play a custom sound, share a message to social networks, display a custom pop up, or even submit a custom order once the condition has been met
- Reset an alert based on triggers such as condition reversed, a custom time interval, or on a reconnection
Historical Strategies
- Standard backtest engine breaks a bar down into 3 segments allowing orders to fill within the bar
- Backtest a strategy with intrabar granularity using “High order fill resolution”
- Choose a time frame based on minute, second, or tick granularity
- Set a custom period value for ultimate control over timing of historical executions
Improved Session Management with new“Trading Hours” window
- Predefined holidays configured and updated from NinjaTrader servers
- Ability to add new and edit holidays
- Options to configure a full holiday, early close, or partial holiday
- Set “End of day” marker to allow for multiple trading segments in one trading day
Tick Replay
- Calculate indicators and strategies on a guaranteed sequence of historical last, bid & ask events
- Obtain values and calculations that went “into” a bar
- Improve intraday volume and delta analysis
Modernized User Interface
- Personalize your application “Skin” & share with other traders
- Customize new tabbed functionality for simplified navigation and minimize the screen space used
- Duplicate current settings to a new tab or even a new window
- Optionally configure a warning message to confirm on tab or window close
Greater performance
- Fully multi-threaded core and user interface adds significant performance increases across the entire platform
- All connection technologies now work natively in the 64-bit version of NinjaTrader 8
- New “Calculate On Price Change” provides ultimate control over how frequently an indicator or strategy calculates on new data
- Optimized segmenting of open workspace resources minimizes CPU usage
- Reconfigured data processing & storage methods to minimize response time
- Improved Strategy Optimization delivers 10x performance gains versus benchmarks
- Added support for concurrent historical bar requests vastly improves data load time
