How Trade Executions are Plotted

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How Trade Executions are Plotted

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Trade executions in NinjaTrader are tied to specific timestamps based on when the execution actually occurs as opposed to specific bars on the chart. NinjaTrader does it this way to allow you the flexibility of using  multiple charts of differing period types and still being able to visualize where the trade executions occurred. The following article outlines some scenarios with time based execution plotting.

 

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