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  • Announcement: CrossTrade Update: v1.8.1
  • Guide: Pine Script Repainting: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
  • Feature: Announcing Unrealized Mode: Continuous P&L Monitoring for Account Management
  • Guide: How to use AlgoPro Indicators and Strategies with CrossTrade
  • Guide: How to Set Up and Use CrossTrade’s NT Account Manager
  • Feature: Unlocking Prop Farming with CrossTrade's NT Account Manager and Cycle Accounts
  • News: Honoring the 2025 Pine Script Wizards
  • Guide: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About CrossTrade’s NT Account Manager
  • Guide: Topstep vs. Tradeify vs. My Funded Futures
  • News: Kraken Acquires NinjaTrader
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Update v1.7.1
  • Guide: An Introduction to Futures Brokers: A Comprehensive Guide
  • Guide: An Introduction to Futures Trading: What You Need to Know
  • Guide: How to Automate Bitcoin Futures from TradingView to NinjaTrader 8
  • Guide: Connecting NinjaTrader (web) on TradingView
  • Feature: Active Account Management overhaul
  • Guide: Connecting to a VPS from a Windows PC
  • Feature: NAM Trading Windows, upgraded Multi-account placement and Secret Key Regeneration
  • Announcement: CrossTrade becomes TraderSync affiliate
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Partners with QuantVPS
  • Tool: Introducing the XT Alert Builder
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Introduces Active Account Management
  • Feature: Auto-Connect for CrossTrade Add-On
  • Feature: Advanced Stop Losses using Stop-Limit Orders
  • Guide: How to Optimize NinjaTrader 8 Performance
  • Guide: How to connect QuantVue Indicators with CrossTrade
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Launches Affiliate Program
  • Feature: Ticks and Percentage Bases Stops and Targets
  • Guide: Improve performance using Mac Parallels
  • Announcement: Introducing the CrossTrade API
  • Guide: Exploring the Command Tester
  • Announcement: CrossTrade 2.0 Add-On released!
  • Feature: Redesigned CrossTrade Dashboard
  • Guide: The Complete Guide to NinjaTrader Commands
  • Guide: Troubleshooting the Unable to Load ATM Template Error
  • Guide: Using Strategy Dynamic Variables
  • Guide: Using TradingView Strategy Alert Messages for Tick and Percentage Based Stops & Targets
  • Guide: Compare NinjaTrader based Prop Firms
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Accepts Signals From Anywhere
  • Feature: Stop Loss and Take Profit Bracket Orders
  • Guide: Transforming TradingView Alerts
  • Feature: Self Rate Limiting
  • Feature: Alert Commenting
  • Announcement: CrossTrade Joins the NinjaTrader Ecosystem!
  • Feature: Multi-account placement
  • Study: How Fast is CrossTrade?
  • Guide: Fixing NT8 Installations
  • Feature: Flatten_first option introduced
  • Tool: CrossTrade launches Free TradingView indicators
  • Announcement: CrossTrade launches Windows application
  1. Changelog

All Updates

Announcements, features, tools, and partnerships that are shaping CrossTrade

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Announcement: CrossTrade Update: v1.8.1

May 2025 - CrossTrade v1.8.1 introduces new enhancements designed for active traders, including individual Position Profit/Loss thresholds in Unrealized Mode and finalized support for blocking NT8 opening orders. Upgrade to experience improved control and reliability.

Guide: Pine Script Repainting: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It

April 2025 - Avoid misleading backtests caused by repainting in TradingView Pine Script. Learn what repainting is, why it happens, and how to prevent it using best practices like freezing stop-loss levels, confirming bars, and careful use of request.security().

Feature: Announcing Unrealized Mode: Continuous P&L Monitoring for Account Management

April 2025 - Unrealized Mode in Account Management delivers continuous unrealized P/L monitoring, drawdown resets, and uninterrupted intra-day trading protection for NinjaTrader 8 desktop.

Guide: How to use AlgoPro Indicators and Strategies with CrossTrade

April 2025 - Looking to automate your trading with AlgoPro and CrossTrade? By using AlgoPro's indicators and strategies, you can seamlessly integrate with CrossTrade’s automation capabilities. The process involves setting up TradingView alerts with CrossTrade-compatible payloads.

Guide: How to Set Up and Use CrossTrade’s NT Account Manager

April 2025 - This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to activate NAM, configure your settings, and take advantage of its most powerful features.

Feature: Unlocking Prop Farming with CrossTrade's NT Account Manager and Cycle Accounts

April 2025 - With CrossTrade's NT Account Manager's new Cycle Accounts feature, you can automatically cycle trade placements through multiple accounts using a single alert.

News: Honoring the 2025 Pine Script Wizards

March 2025 - CrossTrade is proud to highlight the newly announced 2025 Pine Script® Wizards — a group of talented TradingView developers recognized for their creativity, generosity, and impact on the Pine community.

Guide: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About CrossTrade’s NT Account Manager

March 2025 - In this article, we’re unpacking ten lesser-known—but seriously powerful—features, behaviors, and technical details that most traders miss. Whether you’re new to NAM or consider yourself a seasoned user, this list will sharpen your edge and deepen your control.

Guide: Topstep vs. Tradeify vs. My Funded Futures

March 2025 - In this guide, we compare Topstep, Tradeify, and My Funded Futures (MFF)—three leading futures funding firms that support NinjaTrader and Tradovate.

News: Kraken Acquires NinjaTrader

March 2025 - Kraken is making waves in the trading industry with its acquisition of NinjaTrader, a leading futures brokerage and platform. While no immediate changes are expected for NinjaTrader users, the partnership could bring expanded asset offerings, enhanced liquidity, and institutional-grade security

Announcement: CrossTrade Update v1.7.1

March 2025 - CrossTrade XT Add-On v1.7.1 is here! Flatten positions across accounts, scale out with CLOSEPOSITION, add notes to alerts, and enjoy key API and stability improvements.

Guide: An Introduction to Futures Brokers: A Comprehensive Guide

March 2025 - Explore popular retail futures brokers to compare commissions, margin requirements, and trading platforms. (spoiler alert... we love NT8)

Guide: An Introduction to Futures Trading: What You Need to Know

March 2025 - Futures trading is a powerful way to access global markets, offering traders opportunities in stocks, commodities, currencies, and more. This guide explores the fundamentals of futures, the history behind these financial instruments, and the tools needed to trade effectively.

Guide: How to Automate Bitcoin Futures from TradingView to NinjaTrader 8

March 2025 - This guide will cover how you can automate your BTC trading from TradingView to NinjaTrader through CrossTrade

Guide: Connecting NinjaTrader (web) on TradingView

March 2025 - This step-by-step guide will walk you through connecting to the NinjaTrader web Integration on TradingView for bot trading.

Feature: Active Account Management overhaul

February 2025 - The newly enhanced Account Management page is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of each NinjaTrader account. Key Metrics now include: Account Net Liq, P/L and Unrealized gains, Open Position count, and a Dynamic real-time P/L chart.

Guide: Connecting to a VPS from a Windows PC

February 2025 - Your simple step-by-step guide to connecting to your VPS via a Windows PC.

Feature: NAM Trading Windows, upgraded Multi-account placement and Secret Key Regeneration

January 2025 - January has been a busy month and we ended it with a bang by adding 5 Trading Windows to the NinjaTrader Account Manager, a major speed upgrade to Multi-Account placement, and a quality-of-life update for everyone.

Announcement: CrossTrade becomes TraderSync affiliate

January 2025 - Continuing to deliver value back to the community, CrossTrade has become a TraderSync affiliate to offer a 15% discount on the best NinjaTrader compatible trading journal.

Announcement: CrossTrade Partners with QuantVPS

January 2025 - We're thrilled to announce our partnership with QuantVPS, a leading provider of enterprise-grade virtual private servers. Together, we're bringing you VPS solutions tailored for NinjaTrader, offering unparalleled performance, ultra-low latency, and exceptional value.

Tool: Introducing the XT Alert Builder

January 2025 - The XT Alert Builder strategy represents a significant leap forward for traders who want to do more with their TradingView strategies.

Announcement: CrossTrade Introduces Active Account Management

December 2024 - Effortlessly monitor and automate your NinjaTrader accounts with CrossTrade Pro and the NinjaTrader Account Manager (NAM). Set daily profit/loss thresholds, auto-close positions to protect your capital, and ensure end-of-day flattening for a clean slate every session.

Feature: Auto-Connect for CrossTrade Add-On

December 2024 - We’re excited to introduce Auto-Connect, a new feature that automates the activation of the CrossTrade add-on every time you launch NinjaTrader 8.

Feature: Advanced Stop Losses using Stop-Limit Orders

November 2024 - Advanced stop-loss techniques, including the new stop-loss limit feature, provides greater control over your trades by reducing slippage and enhancing precision in NinjaTrader 8's TP/SL + OCO bracket orders.

Guide: How to Optimize NinjaTrader 8 Performance

November 2024 - Optimize NinjaTrader 8 by loading minimal data, restarting daily, avoiding auto-connect, using a blank home workspace, and setting high priority in Task Manager. Regularly repair the database, limit tick charts, and clear data folders to keep the platform running fast and smooth.

Guide: How to connect QuantVue Indicators with CrossTrade

October 2024 - Looking to automate your trading with QuantVue and CrossTrade? By using QuantVue’s indicators and strategies, you can seamlessly integrate with CrossTrade’s automation capabilities. The process involves setting up TradingView alerts with CrossTrade-compatible payloads.

Announcement: CrossTrade Launches Affiliate Program

October 2024 - We're thrilled to announce the launch of the CrossTrade Affiliate Program—a new opportunity for both new and existing users to earn money while sharing the benefits of our platform.

Feature: Ticks and Percentage Bases Stops and Targets

October 2024 - Our latest CrossTrade update allows traders to set stop loss and take profit levels using ticks or percentages like "25 ticks" or "1.5%". CrossTrade auto-rounds values to the nearest tick for accurate execution, making strategy setup easier and more precise.

Guide: Improve performance using Mac Parallels

October 2024 - If you're experiencing latency, delays, or timeout errors in your CrossTrade log and you're running Windows on Mac Parallels, you may have a performance problem. This guide will help you execute trades from TradingView or the CrossTrade API in under 1 second.

Announcement: Introducing the CrossTrade API

October 2024 - CrossTrade now offers a first-of-its-kind REST API for NinjaTrader 8. Connect the CrossTrade NT8 Add-On and interact with your desktop NinjaTrader from anywhere.

Guide: Exploring the Command Tester

September 2024 - The Command Tester (previously Test Sandbox) is the perfect place to test sample payloads and verify that your orders flow correctly from TradingView to NinjaTrader.

Announcement: CrossTrade 2.0 Add-On released!

September 2024 - Upgrade your trading game with CrossTrade's new NinjaTrader Add-On—designed for seamless integration, faster order execution, real-time account insights, and enhanced trading safeguards. Introducing the all-new CrossTrade API for remote NT8 access.

Feature: Redesigned CrossTrade Dashboard

September 2024 - The redesigned CrossTrade dashboard is live and ready for you to explore. We encourage you to log in and try out the new built-in Command Tester.

Guide: The Complete Guide to NinjaTrader Commands

September 2024 - This guide aims to provide a comprehensive breakdown of NinjaTrader commands and CrossTrade enhancements that streamline automated trading through TradingView webhooks.

Guide: Troubleshooting the Unable to Load ATM Template Error

September 2024 - This step-by-step guide will walk you through the steps to resolve the 'Unable to Load ATM Strategy Template' error in NinjaTrader.

Guide: Using Strategy Dynamic Variables

August 2024 - Leveraging TradingView’s Dynamic Variables for Automated Trading Strategies with CrossTrade and NinjaTrader

Guide: Using TradingView Strategy Alert Messages for Tick and Percentage Based Stops & Targets

August 2024 - Explore how to automate trading by sending TradingView alerts with fixed or dynamic stop-loss and take-profit levels to NinjaTrader using CrossTrade.

Guide: Compare NinjaTrader based Prop Firms

August 2024 - Introducing the newly redesigned Find Your Funding page, a comprehensive comparison tool that puts the power in your hands to find the perfect evaluation program.

Announcement: CrossTrade Accepts Signals From Anywhere

August 2024 - CrossTrade now accepts signals from any external source, expanding capabilities beyond TradingView.

Feature: Stop Loss and Take Profit Bracket Orders

July 2024 - Fully automated trading by using TradingView alerts to place entry, take profit, and stop loss bracket orders in NinjaTrader using one webhook alert.

Guide: Transforming TradingView Alerts

July 2024 - Discover how to convert generic "Any Alert Function Call" alerts into precise buy and sell signals using CrossTrade webhooks. Automate your trading for greater accuracy and efficiency.

Feature: Self Rate Limiting

July 2024 - Avoid duplicate signals or ensure only one position is opened over a certain time period with self rate limiting.

Feature: Alert Commenting

June 2024 - Thanks to the suggestion by one of our users, we deployed the ability to include comments inside a TV alert message.

Announcement: CrossTrade Joins the NinjaTrader Ecosystem!

June 2024 - We're excited to announce that CrossTrade is officially part of the NinjaTrader Ecosystem.

Feature: Multi-account placement

June 2024 - With CrossTrade, you can send order requests to as many NinjaTrader accounts as you want.

Study: How Fast is CrossTrade?

June 2024 - Speed is everything. We added received & sent timestamps, plus total execution time through CrossTrade to NT8 to show just how fast we are!

Guide: Fixing NT8 Installations

June 2024 - Is your NinjaTrader a custom install? Learn how to get CrossTrade to work when NT8 isn't installed in the default location.

Feature: Flatten_first option introduced

May 2024 - The flatten_first flag is introduced. When enabled, any existing position in the same instrument will be flattened before the buy/sell order is created.

Tool: CrossTrade launches Free TradingView indicators

April 2024 - Our free library of TradingView indicators is opened up to all users.

Announcement: CrossTrade launches Windows application

March 2024 - The first version of the CrossTrade (XT) platform is launched through a windows-based application that connected TradingView to NinjaTrader.

The windows application is now depreciated and replaced with our NinjaTrader Add-On

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LogoCrossTrade Partners with QuantVPS to Deliver NinjaTrader-Optimized VPS SolutionsCrossTrade
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LogoCrossTrade Launches Affiliate Program: Earn 20% Commission on All Sales!CrossTrade
LogoIntroducing Tick and Percentage Support for Limit, Stop, Take Profit, and Stop LossCrossTrade
LogoImprove performance and latency using Mac Parallels virtual machine for Windows running NT8CrossTrade
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