NinjaTrader: Trade Futures 4+

Great overall but needs work

The app has come along way it’s great in doing the basics, letting you view your account and look at all news but I feel that the charting needs a lot of work. It’s hard to view the candles when everything such as the price levels and buy and sell buttons are so big taking up a lot of screen space

Unfortunately Not Apple friendly at all

I have been trading options for quite a while and wanted to start trading futures this year. My research led me to NT, unfortunately coming from TD Ameritrade, i am devostated to find out that they have no OS software (only PC supported software) for desktop application. I found the web based trading platform not so friendly and not sufficient to actually chart and trade on. I tried downloading the app on my ipad and come to find out it is not designed for ipad in the sense that it does not provide anything extra to take advantage of the screen size and resolution. It is the same app as iphone, and you can only “magnify” the app to make it bigger on the screen. I have a pretty decent imac set up for trading so i am not willing to spend a lot of money for a pc setup just to be able to use their NT software on a pc. So unfortunately until they have a native software that supports OS/iOS, i will stick ToS. It is a shame for a company like NT, which i would in a way categorize as a tech/finance company, to be so much behind time as far as Apple device support goes. Otherwise they have great pricing and probably the lowest day time margin requirements.

Developer Response ,

Hey, there - thank you for this feedback and for taking the time to review. We're constantly working to improve all of our apps, so I will be sure to pass your message along to our product team to review as well.

Need some updates

It’s ok if your away from your pc and wanna check or check your longer term positions. I scalp and there is no way I’d use it. Either you can’t or I can’t find out how to draw trendlines or SR lines. Also the chart is hard to use. You can’t look back without zooming out which changes the candle time frames. I like that you can put order on quick but it’s hard to see where the candle will finish because to order covers the candle (say if you try to 1 tick above candle ) I love how TDA charts are on mobile, you could actually use it to trade I love NT on PC and hopefully with some improvements it would be at least feasible for me to do a trade or two with it if away from pc and a great setup set ups.
A lot of work to do to become useful but it can be done if they put some more money and time in it (hopefully they do)

Developer Response ,

Hi, there! Thank you for this feedback. We are working constantly to improve our app experience, so your thoughts are very valuable. I have passed your message along to our Platform Team to review as well.