| The panel | Typical MTF panel | MultiTrend |
|---|---|---|
| Higher-timeframe direction on one chart no chart flipping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Up to ten timeframes, your choice any period from seconds to a year, not a fixed set | ✓ | |
| Live on every price change not once per bar close | ✓ | |
| No methodology lock-in price against a fixed anchor, nothing hidden | ✓ | |
| The read | ||
| Arrow, percent, points, ticks or dollars five stat types, one setting | ✓ | |
| Colored cells up, down and flat in your colors, opacity you set | ✓ | ✓ |
| Instrument header with the stat name so a second chart never fools you | ✓ | |
| Where and how | ||
| Six positions top or bottom, left, center or right | ✓ | |
| Ten fonts, 6 to 72 pt with a pixel offset from the corner | ✓ | |
| Auto-contrast readable on light charts too | ✓ | |
| Correct by design | ||
| Calendar anchors in session time the instrument’s own trading hours, any chart zone | ✓ | |
| Any chart type tick, range and Renko included | ✓ | ✓ |
| A dash instead of a wrong number when the history is not there yet | ✓ | |
In short: NinjaTrader 8 and any instrument with a price. That is all MultiTrend needs.
A calendar cell needs the history to reach back that far: a year cell on a chart loaded with two days of data shows a dash, not a guess. Sub-minute slots need a tick, second, volume or range chart.
Every slot measures the same instrument: higher and lower timeframes at one glance.
Customize the look completely to your liking.
Any length you like, not just presets. For example 3 weeks, 7 hours or 39 minutes.
5 different styles to choose from.
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Four ways to read one panel. None of them is a signal; the entries, the stops and the discipline are still yours.
One glance: are the higher timeframes with you? If they are not, you had better have a reason.
Cells flashing both colors means nobody is in control. Many traders read that as a reason to size down or sit out, and the panel makes it hard to miss.
Run day, week and month slots and see which side the longer timeframes lean before you take a position.
Replace the chart-flipping ritual: ten timeframes in one corner of one chart, updating on every price change.
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Download the zip after checkout, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add MultiTrend to any chart from the Indicators list, switch on the timeframes you want, and the panel fills within a few seconds — most traders are done in under a minute. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.
Any of ten slots, each with its own period type and value: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or a year. 73 minutes, 8 hours, 3 days, 12 weeks — whatever fits your trading. Seven slots come switched on, a month down to a minute; the rest are yours to fill.
No. Every cell compares the last traded price with a fixed anchor: the open of the period, or the price a set time ago. The cell changes as price moves — that is the point — but nothing historical is drawn or redrawn, and no cell ever claims something about the past that it did not show at the time.
No, and we won’t pretend it is. It tells you which way each timeframe leans right now, so you know whether the tide is with you. Alignment is context, not a guarantee. The decisions stay yours.
No. MultiTrend never touches your orders, positions or account. It draws a panel on the chart — every order is yours to place, in your own order-entry window, exactly as before.
On apply, MultiTrend loads two small reference series of its own — one-hour bars for the calendar periods, one-minute bars for the trailing windows — so a day, week or month cell reads the same on a tick chart as on a daily chart. A year slot loads a full year of hourly bars and takes a little longer. It happens once per apply, not while you trade.
Fifty settings in thirteen groups, and the six things they add up to. The names in bold are the names in the indicator’s settings window.
Ten slots, each with On, Period Type and Period Value, set the timeframes: up to 60 seconds, 720 minutes, 24 hours, 30 days, 12 weeks or 12 months, or a year. Seven start switched on, the month, week and day, 4 hours, 1 hour, 15 minutes and 1 minute, side by side in one strip on the chart you are already watching, with no second chart to open, each cell labeled with its timeframe.
Every cell compares the last price with a fixed anchor. Day, week, month and year cells use the open of that period in the instrument’s own session, so one week means since this week’s first session. Hour, minute and second cells use the price that long ago, clipped at the start of the current session, 18:00 New York the evening before on CME futures, never reaching into the previous one.
Stat type sets what every cell reads: an arrow alone, the percentage change, which is the default, points, ticks, or the dollar P&L of one contract. Show instrument adds a cell on the left with the chart’s instrument, and Show value (under instrument) names the stat beneath it, so a screenshot or a second chart never leaves anyone guessing.
Up color, Down color and Flat color tint each timeframe, lime, red and gray by default, flat meaning the shown value is zero. Show table puts the cells in tinted boxes with a thin outline at the Cell fill opacity % you choose, or leaves floating colored text, and Auto-contrast turns text and border dark on a light chart, so the strip reads on any background.
Corner anchor docks the strip top or bottom, left, center or right, top center by default, with X offset (px) to nudge it sideways from a side corner and Y offset (px) from the top or bottom. Font offers ten fonts, Calibri at 15 by default, Font size runs from 6 to 72, Gap sets the spacing inside each cell, and Panel background opacity % adds a backing behind the strip, off by default.
The strip updates on every price change, not once per bar, on tick, range, Renko or minute charts, because the anchors come from minute and hour data NinjaTrader loads for it, not your chart’s bars; only sub-minute cells need a tick, volume, range or seconds-based chart. Chart time zone (advanced) keeps the calendar anchors right if you moved NinjaTrader’s time zone.
A dash means MultiTrend would rather show nothing than a wrong number: the chart does not hold enough history for that period yet, the market is closed between sessions, or a sub-minute slot sits on a chart that has no sub-minute data. Load more days in the Data Series dialog, or wait for the session to open.
It’s built lean — it works only when the price changes, the panel text is laid out once and cached, and it pauses when the chart tab is hidden. If your chart ever lags with it on, email us: that’s a bug, not normal.
Yes. MultiTrend shows up to ten timeframes of the same instrument on one chart, from seconds to a year, each cell up, down or flat with the percentage, points, ticks, dollars or just an arrow, updating on every price change. You choose the timeframes, and each one is read against a fixed anchor, so there is no second chart to flip to and nothing redrawn after the fact.
Not as a panel. A chart can carry several data series of different periods, each drawn as its own set of bars; the Net Change Display indicator puts one change figure, since the last close, in a corner of the chart; and the Market Analyzer’s Net Change and Chart Net Change columns show each instrument’s move on the day, one row per instrument. Nothing built in lines up several timeframes of one instrument, with their direction, in one strip on your chart.
By one fixed rule per cell, with nothing hidden. Day, week, month and year cells compare the last price with the open of that period, taken in your instrument’s own session; hour, minute and second cells compare it with the price that long ago, clipped at the start of the current session. Up means above the anchor and down below it; flat means the value shown is zero, so in the default percent view a move under 0.005% also reads flat and the color always matches the number.
Yes, Stat type switches every cell at once: an arrow alone, the percentage change, the points, the ticks, or the dollar P&L of one contract. With Show instrument and Show value (under instrument) on, the strip also names the instrument and the stat it is showing, so the numbers are never read in the wrong unit.
Email support, answered by the traders who built it. Bugs get fixed, and updates are free.
Every cell is the last traded price against one anchor price for that timeframe. Percent divides by the anchor; points, ticks and dollars are the same difference in the instrument’s own units; the arrow is only its sign. Green when positive, red when negative, gray when it rounds to zero.
A day, week, month or year cell anchors to the open of the session that contains the calendar boundary — the first trade of the week for 1W, the first trade of the month for 1MO — found in the instrument’s own trading hours, so a chart in Oslo and a chart in Chicago read the same number.
A second, minute or hour cell anchors to the price a set time ago, read from a one-minute reference series so it works on any chart type. Hour windows stop at the open of the instrument’s own session (for CME futures that is 18:00 ET the evening before): a 4H cell at 19:00 ET reads from the 18:00 open, never from the previous session.
| Slot | Anchor rule | Anchor | Points | Ticks | Dollars | Percent | Cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1MO | open of the session holding the 1st | 7562.50 | +19.00 | +76 | +$95.00 | +0.25% | green |
| 1W | open of the session holding Sunday | 7625.75 | −44.25 | −177 | −$221.25 | −0.58% | red |
| 1D | open of the current session | 7554.25 | +27.25 | +109 | +$136.25 | +0.36% | green |
| 4H | price 4 hours ago, clipped at the session open | 7590.50 | −9.00 | −36 | −$45.00 | −0.12% | red |
| 1H | price 1 hour ago | 7587.50 | −6.00 | −24 | −$30.00 | −0.08% | red |
| 15M | price 15 minutes ago | 7573.25 | +8.25 | +33 | +$41.25 | +0.11% | green |
| 1M | price 1 minute ago | 7581.50 | +0.00 | +0 | +$0.00 | +0.00% | gray |
Points × 4 = ticks on MES; points × $5 = dollars, per contract. The instrument’s tick size and point value come from NinjaTrader, so the same panel reads correctly on NQ, CL, 6E or a stock. The dollar cell is for one contract or share.
Day, week, month and year cells anchor to the open of the session that contains the boundary, found with NinjaTrader’s own session iterator in the instrument’s trading hours. For CME index futures the week opens Sunday 18:00 ET, and that is the 1W anchor whatever zone your chart is drawn in.
Second, minute and hour cells compare the last price with the price N units ago, read from a one-minute reference series of the instrument, so a 15M cell reads the same on a tick chart, a range chart and a daily chart. Hour windows are clipped at the current session’s open.
“Now” is the timestamp of the current minute of the instrument’s own one-minute feed, never the forming bar of your chart. A daily chart’s current bar carries a time hours in the future; anchoring on it would put every trailing cell off by most of a day.
When the chart does not hold enough history for a period, when the market is between sessions, or when a sub-minute slot sits on a chart with no sub-minute data, the cell shows a dash instead of a number. A wrong number in the right color is the one thing this panel must never do.
This is the actual settings panel in NinjaTrader — numbered groups, plain-English names, no cryptic abbreviations. Every row in the table below is one of these; each of the ten slots is its own group.
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Stat type | Percentage | Arrow · Percentage · Points · Ticks · Dollar |
| Show table | Off | On · Off |
| Show instrument | Off | On · Off |
| Show value (under instrument) | Off | On · Off |
| Gap | Large | Small · Medium · Large · Extra Large |
| Placement & Font | ||
| Corner anchor | Top Center | Top Left · Top Center · Top Right · Bottom Left · Bottom Center · Bottom Right |
| X offset (px) | 10 | 0 – 4000 |
| Y offset (px) | 10 | 0 – 4000 |
| Font | Calibri | Segoe UI Semibold · Segoe UI · Segoe UI Black · Consolas · Consolas Bold · Cascadia Code · Arial Bold · Verdana · Tahoma · Calibri |
| Font size | 15 | 6 – 72 |
| Chart time zone (advanced) | Auto | Auto · US Eastern · US Central · US Mountain · US Pacific · UTC · London · Central Europe · Tokyo · Sydney |
| Colors | ||
| Auto-contrast | On | On · Off |
| Cell fill opacity % | 22 | 0 – 100 |
| Panel background opacity % | 0 | 0 – 100 |
| Up color | Lime Green | Any color |
| Down color | Red | Any color |
| Flat color | Gray | Any color |
| Font color | White | Any color |
| Border color | Gray | Any color |
| Panel background color | Black | Any color |
| Slot 01 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Month | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 1 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 02 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Week | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 1 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 03 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Day | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 1 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 04 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Hour | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 4 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 05 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Hour | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 1 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 06 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Minute | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 15 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 07 | ||
| On | On | On · Off |
| Period Type | Minute | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 1 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 08 | ||
| On | Off | On · Off |
| Period Type | Minute | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 5 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 09 | ||
| On | Off | On · Off |
| Period Type | Minute | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 5 | 1 – 999 |
| Slot 10 | ||
| On | Off | On · Off |
| Period Type | Minute | Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Month · Year |
| Period Value | 5 | 1 – 999 |
Ranges are printed only where the indicator enforces one. Period values are capped per type: seconds 60, minutes 720, hours 24, days 30, weeks 12, months 12, year 1. Colors accept any color.
MultiTrend calculates only when the price changes — never once per tick when the last price is unchanged, never on a timer. Each cell is a snapshot, so text and color always belong to the same moment. Labels and cell sizes are laid out once and cached; a cell’s value is re-laid out only when its text actually changes, and the whole indicator pauses while the chart tab is hidden. The two reference series are sized to what the enabled slots need: a default set loads about ten weeks of hourly bars, a year slot a full year, and nothing more. If your chart ever lags with MultiTrend on, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
Calendar anchors are found in the instrument’s trading-hours template (US Eastern for CME futures), so the day, week and month cells do not move when you change your chart’s display zone. The one place the chart zone matters is telling which calendar day “today” is; MultiTrend reads it from your PC clock, which is NinjaTrader’s default. If you run NinjaTrader with a display zone different from your PC clock, set the same zone in Chart time zone (advanced) and the cells agree with your chart again.
MultiTrend itself makes no network connection. Its two reference series come from your own data feed through NinjaTrader, the same way every chart does. The only license check is NinjaTrader’s own, the same one every Ecosystem product uses. Nothing about you, your account, your charts or your trades is sent anywhere, and there is no telemetry.
Fourteen days, every setting, no card. It switches itself off, and if it stays, it is $69 once and yours to keep.
Not for you if you want a system that tells you when to enter. MultiTrend tells you which way each timeframe leans right now, in your numbers and your colors; the trade is yours.
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