How to Keep Your Time in Sync for Trading
We’ve posted before about how important it is to keep your Windows time in sync with official time servers. NinjaTrader references your computer’s clock (aka Windows time) to perform many of its calculations. Now we will show you how to keep your computer time clock accurate without any 3rd party software. At Day Trade to […]
CME Thanksgiving Trading Hours / NinjaTrader CL Fix
If you’ve been following our blog, hopefully you caught NInja Trader introduced this week. After you make this change, disconnect and reconnect to your data feed. This is a reminder of the CME Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule this week. Read the official CME statement here. For our non-U.S. friends, we celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 22. […]
CME Changes Hours – Update Your Charts
Significant news this week regarding for traders of the E-Mini S&P 500 (ES), YM (Mini-sized Dow), NQ (E-Mini NASDAQ-100) and EMD (E-Mini S&P MidCap 400) – as of Sunday, November 18, 2012 the close of the CME Globex for electronically traded equity index futures contracts will change from 4:15 p.m. US/Eastern to 5:15 p.m. US/Eastern. […]
NinjaTrader and Windows 8
Update: a NinjaTrader representative has confirmed with us that Windows 8 should be compatible with 3rd party software, such as our Atlas Line. Previous incompatibility issues may have been due to an earlier build of Windows 8. NinjaTrader has stated that when Windows 8 is officially supported, the NinjaTrader system requirements will mention Windows 8. […]
Understanding the Markets Using Price Action
Oscillators, channels, stochastics, moving averages – if you’ve ever tried using indicators, these names are familiar. Using these types of indicators can lead to shortsighted trading. It’s easy to say that a particular configuration of indicators was successful for a period of many days. However, indicators are often linked to fixed parameters that do not […]
Positive Housing Numbers Provide Perspective
With positive news regarding U.S. residential construction numbers, stock-index futures reacted bullishly today. The Existing Home Sales report created quite a bullish move of about 5 points on the ES (E-Mini S&P). This large move occurred near the 10:00 a.m. mark when the report was announced. See the chart below. According to U.S. Commerce Department […]
