NinjaTrader automated trading without NinjaScript
NinjaTrader automates well if you write NinjaScript and keep a machine running. If your strategy already lives in TradingView or a Python script, the webhook route skips the C# rewrite.
Quanify routes orders to Tradovate today; the NinjaTrader connector is on the roadmap.
NinjaScript or a webhook
NinjaScript runs a C# strategy inside NinjaTrader on your machine: full platform access, and the machine has to stay awake. A webhook lets the strategy stay where it is (PineScript, Python, anything that sends HTTP) while a service turns its output into orders.
Webhook route and NinjaScript side by side
| Webhook (Quanify) | NinjaScript | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Anything that sends HTTP | C# |
| Runs on | Quanify's servers | NinjaTrader on your machine |
| VPS needed | — | Usually |
| Order book and native indicators | — | ✓ |
| NinjaTrader accounts | Roadmap | ✓ |
Quanify routes webhook orders to Tradovate accounts today; the NinjaTrader connector is on the roadmap.
How the webhook route works
A Quanify strategy is a URL that accepts a POST. Paste it into a TradingView alert's webhook field with a short JSON body, which the setup panel builds for you. No add-on, bridge, SDK or C#; the receiver accepts the text/plain TradingView sends.
- The token in the URL is the credential, so treat it like a password
- Set an optional webhook password on the strategy
- Duplicate alerts within 2 seconds are dropped
{
"action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
"ticker": "{{ticker}}",
"contracts": "{{strategy.order.contracts}}",
"market_position": "{{strategy.market_position}}"
}One alert, several accounts
Every account you attach carries its own whole-number multiplier, applied before the order is sent.
- Sized per account
- Multipliers from 1 to 999. Contracts can't be split, so there's no 0.5× to round.
- Starts disabled
- A new strategy is created with Power off, and every account on it starts disabled.
- Armed means confirmed
- A trader only shows as armed once the engine confirms the routing.
- Power off doesn't flatten
- Turning a strategy off stops new orders. Open positions stay yours to manage.
Common questions
Short answers to what traders ask first. Anything else, the Help Center has it.
Can I automate NinjaTrader without NinjaScript?
Yes, by the webhook route: a service holds the broker connection and places orders from a TradingView alert or HTTP request. Quanify works this way on Tradovate; its NinjaTrader connector is on the roadmap.
Do I need NinjaTrader open for automated trading?
With NinjaScript, yes. By the webhook route, no: the broker connection runs on a server, so orders go out with your machine off.
Can I send TradingView alerts to NinjaTrader?
By the webhook route, yes. In Quanify you create a strategy, put its webhook URL in the TradingView alert and paste the generated JSON body. That runs on Tradovate accounts; NinjaTrader follows when the connector ships.
Do I need a VPS to automate NinjaTrader?
Only for the NinjaScript route, where the platform has to stay running.
Should I use NinjaScript or a webhook?
NinjaScript if your logic needs platform internals: the order book, native indicators, bar-by-bar state. A webhook if your strategy already exists elsewhere and you want it placing orders.
Can one alert trade several NinjaTrader accounts?
Each account you attach applies its own whole-number multiplier, so one signal becomes correctly sized orders across several accounts. In Quanify this works on Tradovate accounts.
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