Features

Charting and Trading in One Window

A precise, modern charting workspace with an integrated trader, a full indicator suite, and order-flow tools — designed to feel familiar and built for NinjaTrader 8.

Chart + integrated trader

Working orders and brackets right on the price axis, with one-click entries, breakeven, and flatten in the Trader panel.

Full indicator suite

Tick-accurate VWAP family (RTH/Globex/Weekly/Monthly/Anchored) with σ bands, moving averages, Bollinger, Donchian, ATR Bands, and CVD.

Volume Profile suite

Session and composite profiles, a Naked POC tracker, pivot-based low-volume nodes, and anchored + range VP drawing tools.

Multi-chart layouts

Grids up to 3×3 with one-click sync of instrument, timeframe, and price level — including minis with their micros.

Drawing & journaling

Running trendline with distance labels, comment bubbles and callouts, fill-in journaling templates, and save-as-default styles.

Trade Review & journaling

Replay your day with fills grouped into positions, plan tools with live TP/SL/R, a full journaling form per trade, and one-click push to the TradersForge Journal.

Trade micros off a mini chart

Read NQ, trade MNQ: “Trade as” routes orders to the micro with correct on-chart size and dollar labels.

Risk & account safety

Max order size, market lock and safety confirms, alt-account confirm, plus in-app license and default-account management.

Go Deeper

More of what’s inside — the detail behind the highlights.

Drawing & Annotation Suite

Trendlines, channels, comment bubbles, callouts, and labeled rectangles — with a left-side drawer of pinned tools and saved presets. Mark up NQ and your drawings follow onto MNQ and every layout, surviving restarts.

Templates & Favorites

Save layouts and indicator sets as templates, then pin your go-to setups and timeframes as one-click pills. Set a default chart that loads exactly how you like it every time.

Order-Flow Detail

Footprint bars and tick-level Volume Profile detail for reading price acceptance and absorption — rebuilt on demand so charts stay light.

Multi-Account Risk Guardrails

Per-account daily-loss and loss-per-trade limits, plus max-contract caps by size class — applied across every logged-in account.

Smart Limit Orders

Place a limit by clicking the chart — above the market sells, below buys. Bind it to a hotkey for one-key entry at the price you want.

Trade Micros Off a Mini Chart

Read NQ, trade MNQ. Set “Trade as” in the Trader panel to route orders to a mini’s micro sibling (NQ↔MNQ, ES↔MES, YM↔MYM, RTY↔M2K) while bars stay on the chart you’re watching. The position chip reads “Long 3 MNQ” so size and symbol are never in doubt.

Works With CustomDOM

Pair it with CustomDOM and the ladder follows your active chart’s instrument and account automatically. Switch accounts on either side and both stay in sync.

Familiar & Clean

Designed with popular charting platforms in mind, so navigation, drawing tools, and shortcuts feel familiar from day one — right inside NinjaTrader 8.

Screenshots

See It in Action

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CustomChart Trade Review with the ledger grouping fills into positions showing average entry and TP/SL/R columns, and two colour-coded journal comment bubbles anchored to their entry candles — **Journal a Session on the Chart** The ledger groups fills into *positions* — average entry, net P&L, live TP/SL/R — and each one gets a full journaling form that becomes a colour-coded bubble anchored to its entry candle.

CustomChart Push session to Journal dialog matching nine reviewed positions to Journal trades, with fill-blanks write mode and a per-field result log — **Send the Session to TradersForge Journal** Each position is matched to the corresponding trade in your *TradersForge Journal*, Preview shows exactly what would change field by field, and the default mode only fills what’s blank — nothing you’ve already written is overwritten. Requires a TradersForge Journal account on Elite.

CustomChart trade journal form showing trade rating, followed-plan toggle, Playbook setup selectors, emotional state, tags, notes and lessons learned — **The Journaling Form** Rating, plan adherence, up to three Playbook setups, setup grade, emotional state, tags, notes and lessons — pre-filled with the trade number, contracts, average entry, TP/SL and P&L the ledger already knows.

Chart + Integrated Trader Candles, Volume Profile, VWAP and moving averages, a CVD sub-panel, and a full order-entry panel — all in one window.

Multi-Chart Layouts Up to a 3×3 grid with one-click Sync — align instrument, timeframe, and price level across charts, including minis with their micros (NQ↔MNQ, ES↔MES). Pin your favorite layouts, indicator sets, and timeframes as one-click pills.

CustomChart with a live long position and working bracket order shown directly on the chart, plus live position P&L in the Trader panel — **Trade From the Chart** Working orders and brackets render right on the price axis, with live position and P&L in the Trader panel.

CustomChart with the left drawing drawer open and a green comment bubble holding a trade-journaling template (Setup, Grade, Confluence, Emotions, Improvements) anchored to a price level — **Draw & Annotate** A full drawing suite with a left-side drawer of pinned tools and saved presets — comment bubbles, callouts, channels, and labeled lines for marking up and journaling every trade.

CustomChart showing a Short 1 MNQ position on an NQ chart with the 'Trade as MNQ / via NQ chart' override and on-chart target and stop pills labeled in MNQ — **Trade Micros Off a Mini Chart** Read the NQ chart, trade MNQ. Set “Trade as” and your orders, position, and brackets route to the micro — with on-chart pills showing “1 MNQ” so size and symbol are never in doubt.

CustomChart Trade Review window showing paired entry and exit fills with per-trade P&L, Long and Short planning tools with target and stop zones, and a comment-bubble trade journal (Setup, Grade, Confluence, Emotions, Improvement) — **Trade Review & Journaling** A look-only mode to replay your day — paired fills with per-trade P&L, Long/Short planning tools, and comment-bubble journals (setup, grade, confluence, emotions) annotated right on the chart.

Range Volume Profile Click a start bar and an end bar to build a volume profile over just that window — then project the POC, value area, and low-volume nodes forward to the right edge as reference levels.

Naked POC Projection Prior-session Volume Profiles with their untested (naked) POCs projected forward until price trades through them — the key reference levels, tracked automatically.

Settings

Configurable Down to the Detail

A tabbed settings panel — Appearance, Trader, Risk, Brackets, Data, Indicators, Hotkeys, and Templates — tunes CustomChart to your workflow. Click any screenshot to enlarge.

CustomChart indicator picker showing built-in indicators plus the full NinjaTrader 8 indicator library available to add to the chart — **Full Indicator Suite** Our built-in suite — VWAP (RTH/Globex/Weekly/Monthly) with σ bands, Volume Profile, CVD, moving averages, Bollinger, Donchian, ATR Bands — *plus* access to the full NinjaTrader 8 indicator library. Want something specific? We'll build it on request when it's not proprietary or overly extensive.

CustomChart drawing tools menu: trendline, horizontal and vertical lines, rectangle, Fibonacci retracement, text annotation, ray, long and short position tools, and measure — **Drawing Tools** Trendlines, Fibonacci, rectangles, rays, long/short position tools, measure/ruler, text annotations, and price alerts.

Brackets settings tab with TP/SL tick distances and a choice of fixed-tick or ATR-based bracket distance with x1, x2, x3 multipliers — **Brackets** Default TP/SL in ticks, or switch to ATR-based brackets at ×1, ×2, or ×3 — overridable per trade.

Appearance settings tab with full color customization for candles, grid, axes, and crosshair, plus a live candle preview — **Appearance** Full color control over candles, grid, axes, and crosshair with a live preview — plus trade-execution markers.

Data settings tab with history lookback presets, trading-hours templates, live refresh cadence, and tick-cache management — **Data** History lookback presets, RTH or full-session templates, live-refresh cadence, and automatic tick-cache management.

Hotkeys settings tab with customizable keyboard shortcuts for order entry, smart limit, flatten, cancel, reverse, and order quantity — **Custom Hotkeys** Assign your own keyboard shortcuts for order entry, smart limit, flatten, cancel-all, reverse, and order quantity — trade without leaving the keyboard.

Actively Developed

New in v1.10 — Labels That Stay Out of Your Way

Plan-tool labels can sit outside the tool — the Long/Short plan tool’s entry, target and stop labels gain a Label side setting (inside left, inside right, left of box, right of box), so your average price and R:R stay readable without covering the candles behind them.
Label opacity — fade labels to 85, 70, 55, 40 or 25% and read the price action straight through them. Both settings are per-tool and travel with your presets and save-as-default.
Refresh setups and tags without leaving the chart — create a setup or tag in the TradersForge Journal and press ⟳ on the journaling form to pull it in, keeping whatever you’ve already selected. The form shows how fresh the list is, and Trade Review refreshes it quietly in the background.
Fixed — a setup could be saved against the wrong name. A damaged entry in the cached setup list could shift the journaling form’s dropdowns and store a different setup than the one displayed. Selections are now carried on the list entries themselves. Worth a glance at trades journaled before this update if your Playbook is large.
Also fixed — choosing a setup archived in the Journal no longer clears the link, and removing or renaming a tag no longer leaves a stale label on the entry or the chart bubble.

Journal syncing requires a TradersForge Journal account on the Elite plan. Everything else in CustomChart — charting, trading, indicators, Trade Review, the ledger, plan tools, the journaling form and on-chart bubbles — works standalone with no Journal account. Pushing sends your trade-journal content (notes, ratings, plan levels, setups, emotions, tags) to app.tradersforge.net only when you press Push, using an API key you paste yourself.

Upgrading from v1.9 is drop-in — no settings migration. v1.9 brought the big one: the Trade Review ledger groups fills into positions, every position gets a plan tool with live TP/SL/R and a full journaling form that becomes a colour-coded chart bubble, and the whole session pushes to your TradersForge Journal in one action. v1.8.2 fixed the chart-freeze defect behind intermittent “missing bars” and made Initial Balance read identically on every timeframe; v1.8.1 brought CVD parity with NT8’s native Cumulative Delta. Every update is free for license holders.

Pricing

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