In short: NinjaTrader 8 and a chart. That is all StickyNotes needs.
Notes are saved with the chart, so they are still there after a restart unless you tell it to clear them when the chart closes.
Five color buttons by default, all ten if you want them. Right-click works too.
Eight icon shapes. Hover an icon to read the first line, click it to open the note.
Anchor a note to a bar and price, or keep it fixed on screen as the chart moves.
Two clicks to place a note, one click to type. No save button, no settings fuss.
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, StickyNotes 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.
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Four ways to keep what matters where you are already looking. A note cannot enforce a rule; it makes the rule impossible to not see.
Max loss, no trades before the open, wait for the close: pinned to the screen in red, in view every second of the session. You can still break the rule, but you cannot claim you did not see it.
Anchor a note to yesterday’s high or a supply zone. It stays glued to that price as you scroll and zoom, with the reason you care about it written right there.
Bias, news times and the setup you are waiting for, written on the chart before the open. The plan stays in your face instead of in a notebook you stop checking at 9:31.
Drop minimized icons on trades and mistakes during the week, then walk the chart at the weekend and hover each icon to read what happened. The trail survives restarts.
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Download the zip, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add StickyNotes to any chart from the Indicators list and a row of color buttons appears in the chart toolbar — 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.
Click a color button in the chart toolbar, then click the chart where the note should go. Or right-click the chart, choose Sticky Note, then Add note here, and pick a color. Click the note to type; clicking anywhere else keeps the text. Escape cancels a placement or an edit you changed your mind about.
Yes. Notes are saved with the chart in your workspace, so they survive closing the chart and restarting NinjaTrader. If you would rather start clean every time, switch on Delete notes when chart closes in the settings.
An anchored note belongs to a bar and a price: scroll or zoom and it moves with the chart, which is what you want for a level or a trade. A pinned note keeps its place on the screen whatever the chart does, which is what you want for the day’s rules. Every note shows an A or an M in its corner, and one click switches it.
Minimize them. A minimized note becomes a small icon in one of eight shapes — circle, square, triangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, star or pin — hover it to read the first line, click it to open it again. New notes can start minimized if you drop many quick markers.
Delete a note with the X in its top-right corner. The Delete all button, once switched on in the settings, clears the whole chart at once.
Twenty-nine settings in four groups, and the six things they add up to. The names in bold are the names in the StickyNotes settings window.
A row of color buttons sits in the chart toolbar: click one, then click the chart where the note goes, or right-click and choose Sticky Note, then Add note here. White, black, green, red and yellow are on by default; orange, blue, purple, pink and gray each have their own switch, such as Show Blue button. Button size, Button color and Button text set how the row looks: color names, initials or numbers.
Sticky/moving notes sets the mode a new note starts in. AnchoredToChart, the default, ties the note to a bar and a price, so it moves with the bars when you scroll or zoom. MovingWithChart holds its place in the chart window while the bars move under it. Each note shows an A or an M in its corner, and one click switches it; the other notes stay as they are.
Size preset sets every new note at once: Small 140 × 90, Medium 200 × 120 (the default), Large 280 × 170 or X-Large 380 × 240 pixels. Width (pixels) and Height (pixels) take any size from 80 × 60 up to 2,000. Sticky Note opacity (%) runs from 0, text and border only, to 100, solid; 90 by default. Show note border adds an outline, Border thickness sets it from 1 to 6.
A minimized note shrinks to a small marker, so many notes fit without hiding the bars. Minimized icon shape picks one of eight marker shapes for every note, a square by default. With Show tooltip on hover on, hovering shows the first line without opening it; a click opens the note. Switch on New notes start minimized to drop quick markers across a chart for a week or month review.
Click a note to type in it: Enter starts a new line, clicking anywhere else keeps the text, and Escape cancels an edit or a placement. With Allow drag to reposition and resize on, drag a note to move it or pull its bottom-right grip to resize it; switched off, every note stays locked in place. Set Optional note count warning for one line in the NinjaScript Output when a chart reaches that many notes, 100 by default.
Notes are saved with the chart in your workspace and come back after a restart. Switch on Delete notes when chart closes to clear them whenever the chart closes, the workspace switches or NinjaTrader quits. Show Delete all button, off by default, adds a button that clears the chart at once. Right-click an empty spot to undo: Restore deleted notes returns the last five single deletions, Undo Delete all the last wipe.
Right-click an empty spot on the chart and open Sticky Note: Restore deleted notes brings back the last five deletions, and Undo Delete all brings back everything the Delete all button removed.
The size of new notes, from a preset or in pixels; the background opacity; the border and its thickness; the icon shape; which color buttons the toolbar shows, their size, their color and whether they say the color name, an initial or a number.
No. It draws a handful of rectangles and text and does nothing on each bar. If your chart ever lags with it on, email us: that’s a bug, not normal.
NinjaTrader’s Drawing Tools menu has one text tool, Text, tied to a bar and a price; its screen-fixed version, Text Fixed, can only be drawn by code, not placed by hand. For a line of text at a level, Text does the job. StickyNotes is built for notes instead: ten colors placed from the toolbar in two clicks, anchored or fixed on screen with one click to switch, minimized to an icon, a preset size for every new note, and a right-click restore for notes you delete.
Yes. Type the list into a note, one item per line, and switch it to M so it stays in the same spot while the bars move. Pick the Large or X-Large size preset if the list is long.
That is what each note is: a text box you place with two clicks and type into on as many lines as you need. Drag it where you want it, pull its bottom-right grip to resize it, and anchor it to a bar and price or keep it fixed on screen.
Yes. Switch Allow drag to reposition and resize off and every note stays locked in place. Switched on, you drag a note to move it and pull its bottom-right grip to resize it.
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 the first note is on your chart in under a minute.
Not for you if you want a journal. StickyNotes holds sticky-note-sized reminders, up to about 400 words each, on the chart itself; the writing up belongs elsewhere.
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