In short: NinjaTrader 8 and a chart. That is all ChartWatermark needs.
It reads the instrument and timeframe from the chart it sits on, so every chart labels itself.
Symbol and timeframe are read from the chart, so the label changes the moment you do.
Color, font, size, weight, shadow and outline, in seven presets or a look of your own.
Opacity from barely there to bold. Faint enough to forget, clear enough to read.
Any corner, any edge or the middle, then nudge it by the pixel.
You might ask why this is free, and what the catch is. There is none. We want to change the market for third-party NinjaTrader tools, and giving our work away is part of how we do it.
To say it plainly, this market is overpriced and full of low-quality tools with missing features and bugs. Vendors charge hundreds of dollars for simple indicators. No indicator, add-on or tool will make you profitable. A good one makes your trading environment better, and you know that already, or you would not be here looking.
Our goal is the highest-quality products we can build, tools that make a real difference on the chart. We get there by testing hard, on live charts before every release, with feedback from the traders who use them and a close read of what the forums complain about. We offer a full refund within 14 days, we adapt tools for customers who ask, and we give most of our work away.
Most of our tools are free for a reason. We want you to try them, see the quality and the features for yourself, and not spend a dollar with us until you think a tool deserves it. We are a business and we intend to make money, by solving real problems for traders.
So yes, ChartWatermark is completely free, no strings attached. If you like it, there are more free tools and paid ones priced well under what is usual in this market. If you have any questions, please email us at support@usefulindicators.com.
No card, no license key, no expiry. Nothing to cancel because nothing was started.
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Four reasons a chart should say what it is. None of them changes a trade; they change how fast you and everyone watching can tell one chart from another.
Every chart on screen labeled and styled to match. Streamer and Neon exist for exactly this, and the label is part of the picture, so it survives any crop.
A dozen charts across three monitors, each identified from across the room. No squinting at window tabs to find the NQ 5-minute.
Post a chart anywhere and the instrument and timeframe travel with it. No more “what chart is this?” replies.
Minimal while you trade, Bold red for the recording, Light chart for the printout. One dropdown each way.
Can’t find the answer to your question? Email us, we answer fast.
Download the zip, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add ChartWatermark to any chart from the Indicators list, pick a preset, and the chart is labeled — most traders are done in under a minute. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.
Genuinely free — no trial period, no locked settings, no license key, nothing to upgrade to. We sell other indicators; free tools like this one are how we show you the quality of the work first.
The symbol (NQ), the full contract (NQ 12-26), the instrument description, the timeframe (5 Minute), the bar type, or the symbol with the timeframe stacked under it. It reads all of this from the chart, so when you change instrument or timeframe the watermark follows by itself.
Nine anchors — the four corners, the four edges and the middle — plus pixel offsets in both directions from whichever you pick. It is anchored to the panel, not to a price, so it stays put when you scroll or zoom. There is no drag-to-position in this version; the position is set in the settings.
At the default 18% opacity it is a faint see-through layer: it is drawn over the bars, and they read clearly through it. Turn the opacity down for a whisper, up for a stamp, and switch on the shadow or outline if you want it to stay crisp over busy candles. Untick Show watermark and it is gone.
Yes — tick, minute, volume, range and Renko charts, daily and weekly too, any instrument, any data provider. It draws on the price panel and needs no data beyond the chart it sits on.
Seventeen settings in five groups, and the six things they add up to. The names in bold are the names in the indicator’s settings window.
Show as picks what the watermark says: the Symbol (NQ), the Full symbol with its contract month (NQ 12-26), the Description, the Timeframe (5 Minute), the Bar type, or Stacked, the symbol over the timeframe at about a third of the size. It is read from the chart, so it follows when you change instrument or timeframe. Show watermark hides it in one click.
Position anchors it to one of nine spots on the price panel: a corner, the middle of an edge, or the center, which is the default. Offset X (px) and Offset Y (px) shift it from there, negative values for left and up. It is pinned to the panel, not to a price, so it stays put when you scroll or zoom, and anything pushed past the panel edge is simply cut off.
Preset sets color, opacity, size, weight, shadow and outline at once: Dark chart, the default, gray at 18%; Light chart; Streamer, white at 60% with a drop shadow; Minimal, gray in Light weight at 12%; Neon, cyan with a navy outline; Embossed; Bold red; or Custom, which leaves your own settings as they are. Change anything after picking one and it is kept when the chart reloads.
Color takes any color from NinjaTrader’s picker, and Opacity (%) runs from 0 to 100, 18 by default: faint enough to forget while you trade, strong enough to read across the room. The watermark is drawn over the bars as a see-through layer, so at low opacity the candles read clearly through it; raise it for a stream or a screenshot and the label stands out.
Font family offers fifteen fonts, from Segoe UI, Calibri and Arial Black to Impact, Consolas, Georgia and Garamond. Font size runs from 20 to 800 pixels, 400 by default, large enough to fill most of a panel, and Font weight is Light, Regular or Bold. A long description or contract name at a big size is cut off at the panel edge instead of wrapping onto a second line.
Drop shadow adds a copy behind the text, moved by Shadow offset (px), 1 to 15, in its own Shadow color, at half the watermark’s opacity. Outline traces every letter at Outline thickness (px), 1 to 6, in Outline color. Together they keep the watermark readable over a busy chart or a bright stream overlay without raising its opacity; Streamer, Embossed and Neon use them.
No. It draws a line of text on each frame and does nothing on each bar. If your chart ever lags with it on, email us: that’s a bug, not normal.
Yes, and most traders never find it. Right-click the chart, choose Properties, and under General there is Data series watermark with its font beside it; its color sits under Colors. It takes text of your own plus variables such as @INSTRUMENT and @PERIOD. It has no position, shadow, outline or preset settings. ChartWatermark adds nine positions with pixel offsets, seven preset looks, a drop shadow and an outline, and the stacked symbol-and-timeframe layout.
Yes. You add it from the Indicators list like any indicator; we list it with the add-ons because it changes how the chart looks, not what it calculates. With Show as on Symbol it writes the chart’s instrument, NQ or ES, across the price panel, and when you switch the chart to another instrument it changes by itself. It never touches your bars, prices or scaling.
No. It writes only what it reads from the chart: the symbol, the full contract, the description, the timeframe, the bar type, or the symbol and timeframe stacked, which is what keeps it right when the chart changes. For words of your own, NinjaTrader’s built-in Data series watermark takes free text, and our free chart notes add-on pins a note to a bar or to the screen.
Set it up once on one chart, then right-click that chart, choose Templates and Save as default. Every new chart you open then starts with the watermark, and because the text is read from each chart, each one shows its own instrument without any retyping. Loading a template onto a chart that is already open replaces what is on it, so the default template is the clean way to do it.
Yes. Font family offers fifteen fonts, from Arial and Calibri to Impact, Consolas and Georgia. Font weight is Light, Regular or Bold, and Font size runs from 20 to 800, 400 by default. A long name at a big size is cut off at the panel edge instead of wrapping onto a second line.
Email support, answered by the traders who built it. Bugs get fixed — this tool gets the same updates and support as our paid indicators.
Free, no card, no license key. Download it, import it, and every chart says what it is in under a minute.
Not for you if you expect it to change a single trade. ChartWatermark labels the chart clearly; the trading is yours.
Pairs well with Free candlestick color add-on (CandleStyler) · Free chart notes add-on (StickyNotes) · Free bar counter indicator (ProBarCounter) · Free chart lag indicator (SystemHUD)
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