What's new in Version 5 Release 1

Connectivity Provider Support

• eSignal support
• DTNIQ support
• TradeStation data feed support
• TrackData (data feed) support
• Simulated Data Feed Connection (internally generated simulated data)
• Support for 3 new exchange connectivity providers including Trading Technologies, Inc.
• Supports multiple TWS connections
• Support trading of Options through TWS

General Application Features

• New free NinjaTrader Direct Edition available at select FCM's and brokers
• Connection wizard (easier creation and management of broker and data feed provider connections)
• Built in email to support wizard (packages all required log files and sends to NinjaTrader support team)
• Commissions can be calculated in for real-time profit loss values
• Real-time profit loss and realized profit loss now reported for all connectivity providers
• Time To Close out positions (like a market on close except that you define the close time)
• Improved simulator with additional user preferences
• Global level commissions for each different connectivity provider with instrument level over rides
• Revamped license management and handling (internal to NinjaTrader)
• New Data Grid with user configurable display options
• Export trade data to Excel, Save as CSV file or print
• Users Guide built into application
• F1 context sensitive help
• Back up data feed option (if one feed goes down, NinjaTrader gets data from the back up connection)
• Additional order types supported (broker dependant)
• Order grid has color coded order status
• Improved low level diagnostics reporting

NinjaTrader Charts

• Tick, minute or day based time frames
• Order and position visualization
• Order cancellations and order price/size modifications
• Any interval
• 25+ indicators
• Draw tools
• Execution/trade plotting
• Chart templates
• Printing and saving as image
• Woodies indicators and pivot points
• Custom indicator developement using VS .NET

Market Replay

• Full market recording and replay (not just symbol based)
• Multiple replay speeds, fast forward and rewind
• Trade against market replay in the Sim101 internal simulation account
• eSignal Playback file support

Automated Trading Interface

• New DLL Interface
• New COM Interface
• Improved File Interface (files are now processed immediately, no more delay)
• Easy TradeStation integration
• Easy eSignal integration
• Reduced OIF formats down to one
• OIF naming flexibility
• Improved error logging
• Re-written OIF builder

Instrument Manager

• Redesigned
• Easier searching
• Easier instrument editing

Strategies

• Independent stop strategies (different trail stop values for stop 1 and stop 2 for example)
• Stops loss and profit target orders are now submitted on partial fill of the initial entry order (no more waiting if entry order is completely filled)
• Runner contract(s)
• No more strategy manager; strategy templates can now be saved directly from the order entry interface
• Strategies are no longer point based but tick based (allows them to be disassociated from an instrument and be applied across any instrument)
• Strategy input values  can be ticks, percent or absolute price values
• Added ability to set the auto breakeven plus value to a negative number

FIFO Order Handling

• Increasing an order size will result in additional orders being placed to preserve the original order's position in the exchange order queue
• Decrease an order size will result in NinjaTrader cancelling and/or modifying the newest orders first preserving when possible an order's position in the exchange order queue

Performance Manager

• Moved to a tab in the Control Center window
• More detailed reporting
• Graphs
• Executions, Trades and order reporting based on the performance generation filter
• Generate reports based on points, currency or percent
• Flexibility to select filter criteria individually

Log

• Log events are now categorized and can be filtered against
• Log events have identified information levels that are color coded
• Log files are saved historically based on user configurable number of days

Order Entry Windows (General)

• Entry orders can initiate a new strategy (new sets of stop loss and profit target brackets) or;
• Be applied to existing strategies (NTV4 behavior) or;
• Can be naked (does not create nor apply a strategy)
• Displays all orders and positions instead of only strategy centric orders and positions
• More caption display properties
• Window linking

SuperDOM

• Redesigned streamlined interface
• Stack orders (place multiple orders at the same time to scale in or out of a position)
• Cancel orders independently
• User defined properties such as number or price rows and colors
• Rapid order submission buttons
• Row highlight
• Market orders are now visualized
• Cancel All Buys or Cancel All Sells capability
• Consolidate order display
• Mouse scroll options

Basic Entry

• Redesigned
• Order grid display (consolidated)
• Stack orders (place multiple orders at the same time to scale in or out of a position)
• Cancel orders independently

Account Groups

• Account groups are now listed in the account drop down list of an order entry window
• Scale in/out orders are now replicated across all account groups/position strategies