We’re excited to announce that Katalyst is now an official NinjaTrader collaborator. NinjaTrader is one of the most widely used futures trading platforms in the world — advanced charting, order-flow tools, strategy backtesting, and low commissions on futures and options on futures, trusted by hundreds of thousands of traders. Pairing it with Katalyst gives you a complete loop: trade where the pros trade, then journal and analyze every fill where it actually makes you better.
What the collaboration means for you
Nothing about how you trade has to change. You keep executing on NinjaTrader with the charts, hotkeys, and workflow you already know. Katalyst sits alongside it as your trade journal and analytics layer — the place your trades go to be reviewed, tagged, and turned into an edge.
The short version: trade there, journal here.
- Keep your platform. NinjaTrader stays your execution home for futures and options on futures.
- Add a journal that sticks. Bring your fills into Katalyst to build an equity curve, win rate, per-setup breakdowns, and the review habits that separate consistent traders from the rest.
- Reliable data behind it all. NinjaTrader pairs with Kinetick for real-time and end-of-day market data, so your charts, backtests, and analysis reflect the true market.
Why NinjaTrader and Katalyst fit together
A great platform gets you into and out of trades. It doesn’t tell you which of your setups actually make money, when your discipline slips, or which mistakes quietly cost you the most. That’s the gap Katalyst fills.
Once your NinjaTrader trades are in Katalyst, you can:
- See your real numbers — expectancy, win rate, average R, and P&L rolled up automatically instead of guessed from memory.
- Tag and find patterns — label setups and emotions, then watch which tags carry positive expectancy and which bleed your account.
- Build a review habit — a daily and weekly review cadence that removes one leak at a time, so every month compounds on the last.
Trading is the easy part to start and the hard part to sustain. The traders who last are the ones who review — and reviewing is far easier when the data shows up on its own.
Kinetick market data
NinjaTrader works hand-in-hand with Kinetick, its recommended market-data service. Kinetick delivers unfiltered real-time and end-of-day data so your NinjaTrader charts and backtests are built on an accurate picture of the market — which means the analysis you do afterward in Katalyst is built on solid ground too.
Get started
If you already trade on NinjaTrader, you’re most of the way there. Learn more about the platform and Kinetick on our NinjaTrader collaboration page, then start a free Katalyst account and begin journaling your trades.
Trade on NinjaTrader. Review in Katalyst. Improve every week.
Katalyst is a NinjaTrader affiliate and may earn a commission from links to NinjaTrader and Kinetick, at no additional cost to you. Futures and options trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. See our full Futures Risk & CFTC Hypothetical Performance disclosures.