User Submitted App Features: NinjaTrader 8 Compatible

This started off as a simple addition to the Simple Trade Copier, but ended up being a near complete rewrite after safety checks were added and new features added. WARNING >>> The Simple Trade Copier allows for an infinite looping of order copying, instantly getting you into a margin call and crashing Ninja, if not careful.

Master Position and Follower Position is used, because of this trade copier’s flexabilith. The Accounts and Instruments can be mixed & matched in any way. For example, the Master Position could be Acct: TT12345 and Instr: /ES 03-24, and the Follower Position can also be Acct: TT12345 but Instr: /MNQ 03-24, so if the accounts are the same then neither is master or follower. The combination of account and instrument creates a Position (for the lack of a better term). While Master Account sounds better, it is inaccurate.
The Account selection and Instrument selection has been “properly” implemented vs. other trade copiers.

How it Works:

• This trade copier only submits market orders to the Follower Positions.
• Market Orders are copied from the Master Position to the Follower Position(s) as soon as the order is submitted by NinjaTrader.
• Limit/Stop Orders are monitored on the Master Position to be Filled. As soon as NinjaTrader acknowledges a fill, a market order is submitted to the Follower Position(s). This can effectively be used to create “ghost” stop-losses for the Follower Position(s).
• The Quantity Ration settings scale up the number of contracts sent to the FP.
• Click the red/green button on the chart to enable/disable trade copying.

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Safety Checks:

• Check Follower Positions are Flat: When this is enabled, every time the MP is flat the FP are verified to be flat as well, because it easy to accidentally have the Trade Copier turned off while adding/removing positions to/from the MP. This tool waits 1.5 seconds for the broker to report back that FP are flat. If any FP is not reported as flat at that time, an Account.Flatten() command is issued, and a warning to the trader is issues. If you have automated strategies/systems running on any of the FP independant of this Trade Copier, then disable this option as it will flatten the positions of those automate systems.
• ​​The FP setting are compared to the MP setting for infinite order feedback loops. If one is found the TC disables itself, plays an alert sound, and displays an error message to the CC > Log tab and Alerts Log window.
• Other less lethal checks are done as well, and sends a message to the CC > Log tab and Alerts Log window.

Obviously, you should ONLY use Sim accounts while testing and familiarizing yourself with this tool. And, of course, use at YOUR OWN RISK ! ! !

Happy trading.

Updated and very different version of my original BarTimerFlashFusion code from 2017. Downloaded over 5,000 times so I guess people liked it.

Kindly adapted by Patrick_H of NinjaTrader when NT8 first came out.

IMPERATIVE – REMOVE ANY PRIOR VERSIONS BEFORE INSTALLING.
There is an explanation video here.

This version adds 4 things

1.Tick and Volume Counters are now an option – so all your timers / counters in one indicator.
2. The Flash and Sound Alert features have been upgraded significantly – with the use of Gradient Colors especially.
3. Addition of an ‘Alternative Clock” eg Eastern Standard Time,Sydney Time, etc
4.The ability to move the Bar Timer around the screen via a key combo – no need to right click and select an enum.

Known issues
1. Will occasionally fail/give weird output if your computer clock gets out of sync ( about twice a year in my case) – please google how to sort this it’s very simple.URL link is
in the notes at the top of the code to fix this
2. Can run on BarClose BUT needs firsttickofbar to compute. If you use the Tick Or Volume counter it must run on each Tick , obviously!

Special callout to #jeronmymite for helping me sort out the gradient colouring.

Bar Timer Hybrid v2 is almost a complete re write.
Changes are
1.Tick,Volume,Time and Range based charts are now all catered for.
2. Can look at counter/timer as a numeric value or a % of time left/remaining.
3. User no longer needs to specify what kind of chart it is – code automatically picks it up
4. Can display a Clock in a different time zone to that of the user eg Eastern Standard Time in New York
5. Alert near the beginning of a new bar via sound or various “flashing” objects such as the whole panel.
6. User may rotate the indicator to 8 different points on the chart panel via a key combo.
7. Additional info on a useful indicator to show Data Lag between your PC and the Exchange PLUS it will
automatically sync your PC clock in real time. FREE.
8. New Explanatory video here

Version 3 additions ( special thanks to Jedlikone for the code)

1. Added text outline for easier viewing
2. Added new timer so that the indicator ticks every second ie independent of OnBarUpdate – works much better now.
3. Removed some minor variables and added serialization to the gradient colors.

NB this will replace your existing Bar Timer Hybrid code​

Additional features – please remove prior versions before downloading. This is a significant upgrade.
1. new Price Axis counter
2. Can rotate indicator around the Chart Panel using Key codes
3 .Some bug and format fixes
4. Re organized properties window
5. Clock and counter are now separate items with their own coloring.
6. added single figure format ie last 10 seconds

As ever – any bugs / improvements please let me know – Mindset on NinjaTrader.
Happy Trading.