Plots
The AT TradeAssistant has two plots it can draw on the chart:
| SL | The Stoploss price of an active (running) trade |
| SAR | The SAR value to plot above or below the price during an active trade when the trailing stop is set to Parabolic SAR |
Alerts
- When a submitted trade is executed
- When a trade is closed
- When a trade is submitted by AutoTrade
This page contains only a brief explanation of TradeAssistant’s features.
When you buy the TradeAssistant you’ll receive several NinjaTrader templates with setups for different usage of this advanced tool.
Read all about trading with the TradeAssistant on its Featured page.
Signals
The AT TradeAssistant is a ChartTrader replacement or addition and does not give signals itself. Its optional AutoTrade feature calculates signals from AT Indicators the same way the AT ChartMonitor does.
Settings
| Show Level II imbalance | Shows real-time Level II and tape analysis (Level 2 market data required) |
| Tape speed & volume factor | The multiplication factor that defines a spike in speed and/or volume |
| Tape speed & volume period | The EMA period used to define whether tape speed and/or volume is increasing or decreasing |
| Refresh time | The refresh time of the Level II and Tape snapshots |
| Show daily net change | Shows the daily net change and the Instrument name (only when TradeAssistant is located in ChartTrader) |
| Net change font | The font settings for the Net change |
| Show daily P/L | Shows the Profit/Loss for the daily session (only when TradeAssistant is located in ChartTrader) |
| Show P/L | Show the Profit/Loss for an active trade, as well as the total number of long and short trades and their profit/loss |
| P/L Font | The font settings for the Profit/Loss for an active trade |
| Show P/L as ticks | Check this if you want the P/L value as ticks, unchecked it will display as currency |
| Buy/Sell buttons | Show Buy/Sell buttons |
| SAR Buy/Sell enabling | Buy or Sell buttons are enabled dependent on the Parabolic SAR signal direction |
| Level II Buy/Sell enabling | Buy or Sell buttons are enabled dependent on the Level II analysis |
| Allow adding to position | If enabled an Add button will be shown during an open trade |
| Autotrade on signal level | If enabled a trade will automatically be placed when the combined indicator signal reaches this percentage. The SAR and Level II Buy/Sell enabling will be taken into account. |
| Show SR level warnings | Shows a warning on the top of the price panel if a Support/Resistance level is within the minimum distance entered below |
| Min distance to SR | The minimum distance in ticks for an SR level warning during a trade. This setting is also used to check and possibly adjust an order when you press the Buy/Sell button and the price would be within this distance to an SR level |
| Min Offset from SR | The minimum offset in ticks that a Buy or Sell order should be placed from an SR level when you press the Buy/Sell button. Set this to zero if you don’t want any price adjustments when your press the Buy/Sell button |
| Entry offset (ticks) | The offset in ticks that a Buy or Sell order should be placed from a recent high or low (Donchian 5 is used) |
| Risk/Reward factor | The Risk/Reward factor used to calculate the Take Profit. |
| Adjust and/or close order | If checked this TradeAssistant monitors quantity changes and running profit/loss to change the Stoploss and Takeprofit orders. For each Instrument there must be 1 TradeAssistant with this setting enabled, since TradeAssistant’s trade management doesn’t work without it. |
| Max loss $ | The maximum daily loss (over all Instruments) for TradeAssistant’s AutoClose function to trigger. This value is also used to calculate the position size and to color the Daily P/L display. |
| AutoClose | The method used when the maximum daily loss is reached. Options are: None: no AutoClose method DisableTradingButtons: when the maximum daily loss is reached the Buy/Sell buttons will be hidden CloseAtMaxLoss: an active running trade will be closed automatically as soon as the maximum daily loss is reached. |
| Max profit $ | The maximum daily profit. This value is also used to color the Daily P/L display. |
| Trail S/L bars back | If this is set to zero the Trailing functionality is disabled. Set it to -1 to show the Trailing dropdown without a trailing method enabled. |
| Trailing offset (ticks) | The offset in ticks that the trailing stoploss should follow the price, based on the method chosen in the Trailing dropdown. |
| SAR Accelaration | The SAR acceleration value for a SAR trailing stop. |
| Donchian period | The Donchian period for a Donchian Upper/Lower trailing stop |