Your presets. Pin up to 4 layouts as their own one-click buttons right beside it (outlined here), build your own layouts, or save where all your charts are as a look and bring it back any time.
In short: NinjaTrader 8 and a few charts. That is all Multi Chart Layout needs.
It arranges the screen of the chart you click from; charts on your other screens stay where they are.
Any grid up to 6 × 6 on a big enough screen, every chart the same size.
A large main chart on the side you choose, with up to 6 others, as many as your screen has room for.
Pin up to 4 layouts as their own buttons right beside the menu button.
Set a gap of up to 8 px between the charts (8 px here), or none at all.
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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: live charts, test benches and click tests before release, 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.
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Four moments when sizing windows by hand costs time you would rather spend on the chart. None of them changes a trade; they change how fast your screens are ready.
New charts open at NinjaTrader’s own size and place, and a new workspace starts from scratch. One click per screen puts the charts exactly where they belong, no dragging edges.
Two or three monitors, each with its own layout: a 2 × 2 on the main screen, one big chart and three on the next. Each screen is arranged from one of its own charts.
Keep the right quarter of a screen free for a SuperDOM or Time & Sales. The charts fill the rest, and the DOM is never moved or covered by the layout.
One big chart while you trade, back to four equal charts after the close. Pinned layouts sit on every chart’s toolbar (behind its arrow on a very narrow chart), and Undo takes the last click back.
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Download the zip, then in NinjaTrader 8 (NT8) go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. A small four-square Multi Chart Layout button appears on the toolbar of every chart, and its entry sits under New in the Control Center. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.
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Grids from 1 × 1 up to 6 × 6, and one main chart with 1 to 6 others beside, above or below it, the main chart taking 50 to 80% of the screen’s width or height. Each chart needs at least 360 × 220 pixels (more with Windows display scaling above 100%), so the menu greys out what a screen is too small for: at 100%, the largest grid on a 1920 × 1080 screen is 5 × 4, and a 6 × 6 needs a 2560 × 1440 screen. The gap between charts runs from 0 to 8 pixels. Your list holds up to 12 layouts, and up to 4 of them can be pinned as one-click buttons on every chart’s toolbar.
By default the chart you click from takes the first place, the big one in a layout with a main chart, and the others fill the places in reading order. Charts already in a place keep it: pressing the same layout again moves nothing, and pressing it from another chart swaps only that chart and the first one. The small arrows on a picture open a map of the screen where you swap charts between places, and that choice is remembered for the layout and the workspace, also after a restart and a contract roll.
Not side by side. A NinjaTrader 8 chart window shows one tab at a time, and the nearest built-in way is adding other instruments as data series in extra panels of one chart. Multi Chart Layout takes the other route: separate chart windows, each sized into its place, so you see multiple charts on one screen as if in one window — and each chart keeps its own toolbar, time frame, indicators and Chart Trader.
The charts that get a place are arranged, the rest stay exactly where they were and go behind the layout, except the chart you are typing in and any chart set to stay on top (with Always show what happened on, the note after the click names them). With fewer charts than places the extra places are simply left empty. Minimised charts are left alone.
Yes, every click. Undo takes back the last change and remembers ten. Original puts every chart back exactly where it was before the tool first moved it since NinjaTrader started; charts you opened later stay where they are. Save this look keeps your own arrangement, and My saved look returns to it, also after NinjaTrader restarts.
One button on every chart, an editor under New in the Control Center, and the six things they add up to. The names in bold are the names in the add-on.
The Multi Chart Layout button opens a menu for the screen that chart is on: up to four big pictures of layouts, a More layouts list, and Undo, Original, My saved look and Save this look (Save again once one is saved). Each picture says whether it fits the charts on that screen, and one click arranges them. Up to four layouts can be pinned as their own one-click buttons next to it; a new install starts with 2 × 1 and 2 × 2 pinned.
The editor’s Ready-made tab groups layouts by how many charts you run, from 2 charts to 12–16, with groups for ultrawide and upright screens. Build your own makes a Grid of 1 to 6 Columns and Rows, or 1 main chart + others: 1 to 6 Other charts, the Main chart on the left, right, top or bottom, and the Main chart’s share of the width or height from 50 to 80%. Gap between charts runs from 0 to 8 pixels. Your list holds up to 12 layouts.
The chart I click from, the default, gives the first place, the big one when a layout has a main chart, to the chart whose button you pressed. Keep their order leaves the top-left chart first. Either way, a chart already in a place keeps it (pressing the layout from another chart swaps just that chart and the first one), and the small arrows on a picture open a map where you choose which chart goes where; the layout remembers that choice, also after you switch a chart’s instrument or bar size.
Big pictures at the top of the menu shows the layouts Popular for each screen, chosen for the screen’s shape, or My first 4 layouts from your own list. Order of “More layouts” in the menu puts the Best fit first, the layouts with exactly one place per chart on top, or keeps My own order. Pinned layouts stay at the top of the list.
For a DOM or Time & Sales: in Keep part of a screen free, click the edge of a screen in the drawing of your desk, then set the Strip width. 0% uses the whole screen for layouts, 100% keeps layouts off that screen. Each screen keeps its own strip, and a layout never moves a chart that sits in it.
With Always show what happened on, a short note under the button says what each click did. Off, the default, a note shows only when something went wrong: a chart was busy or closed, could not take its size, or a mouse button was held; Save this look always confirms. More (rarely needed) can forget every chosen place in one go and show the first-use tip again.
Yes, two ways. Save this look in the menu keeps the place and size of your charts, and My saved look puts them back with one click, also after NinjaTrader restarts. And because the charts really move, saving the NinjaTrader workspace keeps them where the layout put them.
Yes. A click arranges the screen of the chart you click from, and charts on your other screens stay where they are. Each screen gets layouts that suit its own shape and size, an upright screen included, and the menu shows which ones fit the charts on that screen.
Yes. In Settings, click the edge of a screen and set the width of the strip to keep free, from 5% up to the whole screen. Layouts on that screen then fill only the rest, and a layout never moves a window you keep in the strip.
No. It moves chart windows only. The Control Center, SuperDOM, Order Entry, Time & Sales and every other window keep their place and size, and arranging the charts does not bring them in front of a window that floats above them. The window you are typing in keeps the keyboard.
Not in one click. NinjaTrader 8 has an optional Layout docking setting (Tools → Options → General, it needs a restart) that lets you drag one window against another to share the space, one window at a time. There is no command that puts all the charts on a screen into a grid, and traders have asked for one on NinjaTrader’s own forum for years. Multi Chart Layout adds it as a button on every chart.
Yes. A chart window counts once, whatever tabs it holds. Your chosen places are kept per workspace and per layout, so each workspace remembers its own arrangement; save the workspace once so NinjaTrader knows the charts again after a restart.
No. It does nothing until you click, and it is not an indicator on the chart, so it adds no work to any bar. A click usually takes about a second, even with many charts. If you ever see your charts lag with it installed, email us: that’s a bug, not normal.
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 your charts are arranged in under a minute.
Not for you if you trade one maximised chart per screen. Multi Chart Layout arranges several charts; the trading is yours.
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