PAT Chart Trader for NinjaTrader 8

It’s built around the small mistakes that cost real money: no double orders from a double click, no accidental naked positions and no stray brackets left on a flat account. Pay once, own it, every update included.

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Everything You Want From a NinjaTrader Chart Trader, in One Column

• Buy and Sell Market buttons that show the size they’ll send, updated live, so a wrong-size click doesn’t happen.
• Drag to the chart: press Buy or Sell, drag to a price and let go. The chip previews the exact order (Buy Limit 7741.25) before you release, and limit vs. stop is picked from where you drop. A Limit / MIT switch lets pullback entries fill once price trades there.
• Join the bid or ask with a limit order, optionally a set number of ticks behind it.
• Fast sizing: type a quantity and press Enter, step with − / +, or pick 1 to 200 from a one-click list.
• NinjaTrader’s own ATM selector, with Custom and right-click Edit / Remove, so your existing ATM templates work exactly as they do now. New to ATMs? See our NinjaTrader ATM strategy guide.
• A position card with side, size, average price and open P&L. Click the P&L to switch between dollars, ticks and points.

Manage the Trade Without Hunting for Buttons

• Close 1 / Close half takes part of the position off at the market, and an ATM’s stop and target shrink with it.
• B/E moves your stop to the entry price, but only once the market is past it, so the stop can’t fill instantly.
• Reverse flips to the same size the other way in one click.
• Flatten closes the position and cancels its orders. Cancel clears working orders but keeps a live position’s stop and target in place.

Trade From the Keyboard, With the Same Risk Check

Set your own keys in Settings > Order hotkeys: click a box and press the keys, such as Ctrl+Shift+B, F5 or just 1. The panel’s own hotkeys are in both editions.

• Buy and Sell Market, the same as the big buttons.
• Buy or sell at the mouse. Point at a price on the chart and press the key. A limit or a stop is chosen from where that price is, just like dragging a chip there.
• Join the bid or ask, with your offset.
• Flatten and Cancel orders, for getting out fast.
• Checked like the buttons. A hotkey is a click on the panel’s button, so with PAT Risk Manager it goes through the same check before anything is sent.
• No accidental repeats. Holding a key down sends one order, and nothing fires while you’re typing in a box.

Built Around the Mistakes That Cost Traders Money

Your NinjaTrader chart trader should never be the reason a trade goes wrong.

• No accidental naked positions. With an ATM chosen, an order against your position is sized to close it, never to open a new unprotected one. If your stop closes the position first, that closing order is cancelled within a second.
• No double orders from a double click. A burst of clicks on the same button sends one order.
• No stray brackets. After a partial close, oversized stops and targets are trimmed to what you still hold, and nothing is left working on a flat account.
• Your keystrokes stay in the panel, never landing in NinjaTrader’s instrument box or hotkeys by mistake.
• Always the account you see. The panel only ever trades the account shown in its Account box. After a restart it waits for your saved account to connect instead of picking another one.

Fits Your Screen and Your Setup

• On every chart automatically. It’s a NinjaTrader chart trader add-on, not an indicator, so there’s nothing to add chart by chart.
• Laptop-friendly. On a short chart window, the at-a-price sections fold into one strip, so Close, Flatten and Cancel never scroll off screen.
• Plays well with other add-ons. Panels from other tools in the Chart Trader column stay visible, and NinjaTrader’s order lines stay on the chart, draggable as always.
• Remembers your setup (account, ATM, quantity, offset and P&L units) per instrument, across restarts.
• Uninstalls in one click. Choose Uninstall PAT Chart Trader… at the bottom of the Settings window, restart NinjaTrader, and its own Chart Trader is back. You can deactivate your license in the same step, and your settings are kept in case you reinstall.
• Matches the family. Same look as Next Bar Entry, so the two sit together in the Chart Trader column as one set of tools.

Two Editions, One Download

PAT Chart Trader comes in two editions: Basic and Pro. It’s the same download either way. Your license key decides which features the panel shows.

Basic is the full chart trader: everything in the sections above. Market buttons that show their size, drag-to-chart entries, join the bid or ask, your own order hotkeys, Close 1 and Close half, Flatten, B/E, Reverse, Cancel, NinjaTrader’s own ATM selector, P&L in dollars, ticks or points, the double-click guard, laptop folding, and your settings remembered per instrument. Pre-trade risk checks with PAT Risk Manager are in Basic too. If you’re replacing Chart Trader, or you own PAT Risk Manager and want your entries checked before they’re sent, Basic is all you need.

Pro is everything in Basic, plus the order preview, ATM presets and order lines. The preview is for traders who want to see a trade before they take it: your entry, stop, targets and dollar risk, drawn on the chart before you click. Presets are for traders who change ATM setups during the session: scalp size in the open, a wider stop after the news, a runner setup later in the day. Instead of opening the ATM list and the quantity box each time, you click one button. Order lines are for traders who manage the trade on the chart: every stop and target shows what it’s worth in points and dollars, and you move, resize, split or cancel orders right from their tags, or let a stop trail an indicator. More Pro features are planned.

Order Preview: See the Trade Before You Click (Pro)

See your stop, targets and dollar risk on the chart before you click. Rest the mouse on Buy or Sell, or on a Join button, and the chart shows what that click would place. Nothing is sent until you click.

• Entry, stop and targets, in dollars. The stop and each target show their contracts, distance in points (or ticks, your choice) and dollar amount. For a market order the entry is the current bid or ask, marked ≈, because a market order fills at the market.
• Risk, reward and R:R at a glance. A card in the corner of the chart sums up the trade before you take it.
• It works while you drag, too. Drag a Buy or Sell chip over the chart and the bracket follows the price under your mouse, so you choose the level knowing where your stop and targets land.
• Know before you click whether PAT Risk Manager will allow the order. With PAT Risk Manager, the card shows its answer, or the smaller size it would cut the order to, without sending anything to ask.
• It shows what would really go out. An order against your position previews as the close it is, without the ATM.
• Yours to switch off. Right-click Buy or Sell and untick Preview orders on hover. The choice is kept per instrument.

The stop and targets are drawn for ATMs set in ticks, NinjaTrader’s default. An ATM set in price, percent or currency shows the entry only.

ATM Presets: Switch Your Setup in One Click (Pro)

Change ATM and size together, with one click, without opening a list.

1. Save. Pick an ATM and size the way you normally would, then click an empty +. That setup is now a preset.
2. Switch. Click a preset. The ATM and size change together. Each button shows its name over its size, stop and target in ticks (for example 2-12/8t), so you know what you’re picking.
3. Adjust. Right-click a preset to replace it with the current setup, rename it (or go back to the ATM’s own name), or clear it.

• Choosing a preset never sends an order.
• With a position open, a preset changes the ATM for your next entry only. The running trade keeps its stop and target.
• Presets are kept per instrument. Your ES presets stay on ES.
• One row of 4, or two rows of 8.

Order Lines: Manage the Whole Trade From the Chart (Pro)

Turn on PAT order lines and PAT Chart Trader draws your orders and position on the chart itself, with the numbers you’d otherwise work out in your head. Then you manage the trade right on those lines: scale out, resize, combine, or let a stop trail an indicator.

• Stops and targets in points and dollars. An ATM’s stops and targets are badged S1, T1, T2, numbered from your entry outward, with their size, how far they are, and what a fill there would make on your position (S1 10 −3.00 pts | −$1,500.00).
• Your position at a glance. Long or short, size, and open P&L in points and dollars, in one amber line.
• Tags where you want them. Each tag’s line runs to the price axis, like NinjaTrader’s own. Choose how far left of the axis the tags sit, so they stay clear of the latest bars.
• One tag per price. Orders of the same kind at the same price share a tag, with their sizes added, so a 2 + runner ATM’s stops move together.
• Drag to move, × to cancel. Drag a tag and a copy follows with the new price and how far it moved. Press Esc to back out. A stop can’t be dragged through the market, where it would fill at once, and moving an ATM’s stop or target keeps the ATM managing it.
• Points or ticks. Distances read in points by default. Switch to ticks with one right-click, and the order preview follows.

Scale Out and Trail Your Stop, Right From the Order Line

• Scale out at your price. Shift+drag a target to peel contracts off to a new level, and turn the mouse wheel to take more. A 9-lot target becomes 6 + 3, and every part keeps its own stop, so whichever fills first, the rest of your position is still protected.
• Trail a stop on an indicator. Ctrl+drag a stop onto an EMA (or any indicator line on the chart), set an offset like 10 ticks under it, and it follows the indicator’s latest value. With Trail on, it only ever tightens. If the indicator crosses the market, the stop holds where it is instead of following.
• Change size on the tag. Click the number on any order and type, scroll or step to the new size. An ATM entry is placed again with the same ATM, and added contracts are checked by PAT Risk Manager first.
• Combine by dragging. Drop one stop on another, or one target on another, and they share one tag at one price.
• Break-even on one stop. Right-click a single stop to move just that one to your entry, while the panel’s B/E still moves them all.
• Built for prop-firm limits. A split or a size change waits for your broker to confirm before the next order goes out, so the two never count together against your account’s contract limit.

Order lines are optional and need no setup: right-click the panel’s Account row and choose PAT lines. They work on a market replay too. While they’re on, NinjaTrader’s own order hotkeys and the chart’s right-click order menu send nothing, so you trade from the panel or its own hotkeys. One right-click switches back to NinjaTrader’s lines. The documentation has the details.

Works With PAT Risk Manager

Already use PAT Risk Manager? Then this NinjaTrader chart trader adds a check before sending. The panel asks the Risk Manager before every new entry, using the same limits and locks you already have, with nothing to set up twice.

• Over your contract cap? The order is trimmed to what fits (Sent 1 of 2: max 2 contracts of MES 12-26) or refused, so nothing over the limit is placed, market orders included.
• Account locked? During a cooldown after a losing trade, the entry is refused with the reason and the time left.
• Hotkeys included. The panel’s own hotkeys are checked exactly like its buttons.
• Getting out is never blocked. Close, Flatten and orders that reduce your position always go through.
• You always know it’s on. A Risk checks on · PAT Risk Manager badge appears on accounts the Risk Manager watches.

Orders placed from this panel are checked before they are sent. Orders from NinjaTrader’s other order windows (SuperDOM, Basic Entry, NinjaTrader’s own order hotkeys, strategies, charts without this panel) are covered by PAT Risk Manager’s usual checks after they are placed. Why this matters on a prop-firm account is explained in NinjaTrader Max Contracts: Stop Over-Limit Orders Before They’re Sent.

Basic vs Pro

Both editions are a one-time payment. You own it for life, with every update included. No subscription, no renewals. A feature that ships in Basic stays in Basic.

Start with Basic and upgrade to Pro any time for the $60 difference. Same key, no reinstall.

Not sure yet? The 7-day free trial includes Pro, so you can try everything on your own charts before you buy.

Requirements

• NinjaTrader 8 on Windows
• PAT Risk Manager is optional. Without it, PAT Chart Trader is a full NinjaTrader chart trader with no risk limits of its own; with it, entries from the panel are checked before they’re sent.
• One license per computer (a 2 PC option is available above)

Learn More

Setup steps, every button and message, and licensing are covered in the PAT Chart Trader documentation. Need help? Visit the support page.

PAT Chart Trader is built specifically for the NinjaTrader platform.