NinjaTrader: Award-Winning Futures Trading Platform & Software
NinjaTrader is a futures trading platform and brokerage built for active traders, combining advanced charting, depth-of-market order entry, order flow analysis, and automated strategy tools across desktop, web, and mobile. The platform is free to download and use—there are no platform fees for advanced charting, strategy backtesting, or simulated trading—and a funded NinjaTrader account adds live order routing and market data.
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Seamless Futures Online Trading Platform Access
Leverage our cloud-based futures trading infrastructure to access NinjaTrader's futures platforms on your mobile device, PC or Mac. Manage your account, check prices, place orders, and view charts from anywhere.
Trade how you want, where you want through interfaces designed for fast, informed decision-making with our professional futures trading platforms.
Powerful & Flexible NinjaTrader Platform Options
Trade how you want, where you want through interfaces designed for fast, informed decision-making.
NinjaTrader Desktop: Flagship Trading Platform Experience
Access NinjaTrader anywhere with our cloud-based futures trading web platform
Take your futures trading with you through a comprehensive mobile experience
| Platform | Best for | Key capabilities | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|
| NinjaTrader Desktop | Traders who want full customization and multi-monitor setups | Multi-monitor support, thousands of third-party apps and add-ons, NinjaScript custom development, advanced backtesting | Windows PC |
| NinjaTrader Web | Traders who want full platform access without installing software | Fully integrated trading experience, account management, charting, and order entry from any browser | Any PC or Mac browser |
| NinjaTrader Mobile | Traders who want to monitor and manage positions on the go | Advanced charting, SuperDOM, hundreds of built-in indicators, zero additional fees | iPhone and Android |
Tools & Analysis for Active Futures Traders
Advanced charting
With NinjaTrader's futures trading platform, you can easily create charts that you can access from any device and customize to your preference using a host of styles, timeframes, and more than 100 technical indicators.
Depth of market tools
Designed for speed and ease of use, NinjaTrader’s SuperDOM (depth of market) empowers you to quickly analyze prices, place orders, and manage your positions to trade strategies with precision.
Powerful quotes
NinjaTrader’s modern design quotes allow traders to clearly see the state of the market, rapidly analyze the data, and act quickly to make an informed trading decision.
Advanced trade management
Eliminate emotions from your trading by protecting your positions with automatically submitted stop orders, target orders, and self-tightening trailing stops.
Streaming market replay
Replay historical market data tick by tick, fully synchronized across the platform as if it was happening in real time.
Order flow analysis
Use our order flow visualization to identify buying and selling pressure and confirm market movement in a specific direction as trades unfold.
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Why Choose NinjaTrader: The Best Futures Brokerage
NinjaTrader is recognized for our unique combination of a high-performance trading platform, discount pricing, and real-time support.
Download NinjaTrader's award-winning software for FREE and see why it's consistently voted an industry leader by the trading community. NinjaTrader is always free to use for advanced charting, backtesting and trade simulation.
Award-Winning Futures Trading Recognition
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2026 Best Futures Broker
BrokerChooser Broker Awards
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2024 Winner Best Trading Software
Stocks & Commodities Readers' Choice Award
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2024 Excellence in Futures Education
Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
Customize your futures trading platform
Using NinjaTrader’s modern C#-based framework, you can develop custom indicators, strategies, and apps — or use third-party add-ons to personalize your desktop futures trading platform. With NinjaScript, you can take customization even further by building tools tailored to your unique trading style.
- Leverage 1,000s of third-party technical indicators, strategies, and apps to build a custom trading setup for your specific needs.
- Build rich, integrated applications with NinjaTrader’s C#-based framework, designed for low-level access to balances and positions, orders and executions, and more.
Get started with NinjaTrader for free*
New to the platform? NinjaTrader’s step-by-step platform training walks you through charts, order entry, and strategy tools on desktop, web, and mobile.
*ACH and debit card transfers are subject to a $5.00 minimum.