Trading journal for NinjaTrader: document your futures trades cleanly
NinjaTrader shows you your result, but not the behaviour behind it. With FlowTrader you bring your NinjaTrader trades into a disciplined journal and see whether you really traded according to plan.
From NinjaTrader to your journal in four steps
Export trades from NinjaTrader
In the Trade Performance section, NinjaTrader gives you an overview of your executed trades that you can export as a CSV. That way you have the instrument, entry and exit and the result neatly together.
Review the data
Go through your exported trades and check that the instrument, direction, entry and exit as well as the profit or loss are correct. These facts are the foundation of your journal.
Document in FlowTrader
Enter your trades into FlowTrader and add what no export delivers: your setup, your plan and your state of mind in the moment. It is exactly this layer that turns numbers into real learning.
Review with the Discipline Score
FlowTrader assesses your behaviour rather than just your result, and the AI Coach spots patterns across many trades, such as the time of day or the mood in which you break your rules.
Why a journal for NinjaTrader traders
More than P&L
NinjaTrader shows you the profit or loss. FlowTrader shows you the behaviour behind it, and with it the real lever for consistency.
Discipline made visible
The Discipline Score makes rule-based trading measurable. You see in black and white on which days you were disciplined and on which you were not.
Recognise patterns
The AI Coach uncovers recurring mistakes that stay invisible in individual trades and only become apparent across many entries.
Built for futures
FlowTrader fits the fast futures trades that NinjaTrader users run, and puts the focus on discipline rather than yet another metric.
Common questions about NinjaTrader and FlowTrader
Can I bring my NinjaTrader trades into FlowTrader?
NinjaTrader lets you export your trades as a CSV. You transfer that data into FlowTrader and add there what the export does not contain: your setup and your state of mind. FlowTrader is focused on disciplined documenting and review, not on a mere data transfer.
Why a separate journal when NinjaTrader already has statistics?
NinjaTrader's statistics answer what happened. A discipline journal answers why it happened and whether you stuck to your plan. It is exactly this behavioural layer where consistency is built, and it appears in no pure result statistic.
Which data should I bring over from NinjaTrader?
Instrument, direction, entry and exit as well as the result as a factual basis. More important still are the things NinjaTrader does not know: your planned setup, whether you stuck to it, and your state of mind. Only these additions make the journal valuable.