Futures are a cornerstone of financial trading across the globe. In today’s marketplace, futures are traded electronically via well-established exchanges providing convenient and easy access to futures instruments. But where did it all begin? Considering the accessibility of today’s markets, it is easy to lose sight of futures trading’s opportunistic beginnings. Read More
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NinjaTrader Group, LLC together with its subsidiaries provides award winning trading software and brokerage services to active traders.Founded in 2003, NinjaTrader has evolved into an industry leader supporting over 40,000 traders around the globe with best-in-class technology, deep discount commissions and world class support.
What are E-mini Dow (YM) Futures?
When it comes to well-known benchmarks of the US Economy, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, otherwise referred to as “the Dow,” comes to mind. As the world’s most closely followed stock index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is comprised of the 30 biggest and most dominant companies in the US. Read More
US Markets Pulled Down by Earnings & Global Matters
US equity futures moved lower Thursday morning on earnings reports which could end a two-day climb for the major indices. The ongoing government shutdown and other global concerns are also important factors in the current market outlook.Read More
C# Scripting Tip: How to Use the Print() Method in NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader’s comprehensive development environment empowers traders to build rich and integrated apps. Utilizing a C# based trading framework, developers can access balances & positions, orders & executions, real time & historical data, and much more. Read More
New Trading Indicators to Expand Your Technical Analysis
The award-winning NinjaTrader platform empowers traders with numerous FREE advanced technical analysis tools for futures, stocks, forex and cryptocurrencies. As traders search for new and innovative ways to evaluate the markets, the NinjaTrader development team continues to add powerful charting analysis tools.
In our ongoing effort to expand our comprehensive toolset, six new indicators were recently introduced and are available now! Read More
Use Open Interest to Measure Trend Strength
Open interest is defined as the total number of contracts for a particular futures instrument which are outstanding at a given time. According to David L. Scott in his book Wall Street Words, “A large open interest indicates more activity and liquidity for the contract.”
The term open interest most commonly refers to the futures and options markets, and is similar to the concept of outstanding shares in the stock market. Another way to think of open interest is the number of contracts held in open positions.Read More
Use Volumetric Bars to Track Buyers & Sellers & See Order Flow Imbalance
Volumetric bars equip traders with a detailed “x-ray” view into the aggressive buying and selling activity of each price bar. Included with NinjaTrader’s Order Flow + suite of premium features, volumetric bars provide a tick by tick footprint style visualization which can help identify order flow imbalance.Read More
Trading Systems: Find the Right Algo Strategies for You
Trading systems replace traditional discretionary trading with algorithms that automatically execute trades based on predetermined market conditions. Although systems are rigid in their execution, much like discretionary strategies, there are various approaches and methodologies utilized to trade the markets.Read More
Observe Market Depth with the Level II Window
Market data is essential to trading: it is the information that fuels charts, plots indicators and triggers alerts. Aside from the last traded price, market data can also include market depth, which provides additional insight as to what is going on beneath the surface.Read More
Job Market Closes Strong: December Employment Report Preview
Signs for tomorrow’s December US jobs report released by the Labor Department point to a strong job market as 2018 came to a close.Read More