Turn swing structure into a clearer trend map, on the chart you trade.
Swings identify important highs and lows. As a NinjaTrader 8 trend indicator, Trends MTF takes the next step: it uses that swing structure to calculate and display active and broken trend lines, then brings the result from the default data series you choose onto the chart where you make decisions.
Use a higher timeframe or a different default bar type for context while working from your execution chart. Instead of manually maintaining every trend line, you get a configurable structural view that can keep active and broken states distinct.
Trends MTF plots descending and rising trend structure directly on the chart. Solid lines are active, dashed lines are broken.
How a NinjaTrader 8 trend indicator builds your view
Choose the source
Use the primary chart series or configure a secondary default data series for the swing and trend context.
Set the strength
Qualify hard on the left, confirm at your own pace on the right. Most tools tie both sides to one setting, so the structure arrives late.
Read the trend state
See the calculated active and broken trend lines on the chart where you manage the trade.
Every Trends MTF setup starts with swing points
Trends MTF includes every Swings MTF feature, starting with swing highs and lows from the selected data series, including an optional secondary MTF source. Two strengths define that structure, and you set each one on its own.
Left strength qualifies. The bar must be the highest high, or the lowest low, of the lookback you set.
Right strength confirms. How many bars you wait before the swing is called.
Then it is fixed. A confirmed swing draws back at the bar that qualified and does not change afterward.
Trends MTF adds the lines that connect the structure
This NinjaTrader 8 trend indicator derives trend highs and lows from those swings, maintaining active and broken trend-line records for a fuller market-structure view.
Active lines show the current calculated structure.
Broken lines preserve what changed instead of making the history disappear.
Optional far-right extension keeps the active trend context visible.
The swing foundation
This Swings MTF view shows the confirmed swing highs and lows that Trends MTF starts with. You set left qualification and right confirmation before a trend line is derived.
From that settled structure, Trends MTF maintains the active and broken trend lines shown in the chart above.
Control the trend picture without losing the swing context
Trends MTF, from the NinjaTrader toolbar
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Active and broken views
Show or hide active and broken trends independently, each with their own lines, dots, and labels.
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Trend display controls
Choose how many upper and lower trend lines to display, extend active trends to the far right, and include countertrends when useful.
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A bounded lookback
Trends calculate over a lookback window you set, in days or bars, so a chart loaded with months of history does not fill up with old structure.
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Alerts on create and break
Get an alert when a trend forms or when price takes one out, as a sound or through the NinjaTrader alert window.
Trends MTF also exposes four values, the latest swing high, swing low, trend high, and trend low, so a strategy or other NinjaScript can read the same values without the chart toolbar running.
Stop redrawing the same structure every time the chart changes
Without Trends MTF
Find the swing points, draw trend lines, and keep extending them by hand.
Track active and broken lines without a clear structural separation.
Switch charts to check whether the trend context comes from another timeframe.
With Trends MTF
Build trends from calculated swing structure on the selected data series.
Keep active and broken trend states visually distinct.
Bring the trend context onto the chart where you execute and manage the trade.
Trends MTF calculates from the default NinjaTrader data series. Custom bar types are not supported. If you only need the swing structure without calculated trend lines, Swings MTF is the focused sibling tool.
What does Trends MTF do?
As a NinjaTrader 8 trend indicator, it calculates swing highs and lows, then derives active and broken trend lines from that structure for the selected primary or optional MTF data series.
How is Trends MTF different from Swings MTF?
Swings MTF focuses on the swing structure. Trends MTF includes that workflow and adds calculated trend highs, trend lows, and active or broken trend-line display.
Can it show higher-timeframe trends on a lower-timeframe chart?
Yes. For example, 60-minute swings and trends on a 5-minute chart, 5,000-volume on a 500-volume chart, or 610-tick on a 144-tick chart. You can mix series types too, such as 15-minute trends on a 610-tick chart.
Do the swings or trends repaint after they appear?
Confirmed swings do not repaint. After the right-strength confirmation bars, a swing is drawn back at the bar that qualified it and stays fixed. Later, price can break a swing or active trend line, moving it to the broken state. You can show or hide that broken structure separately.
Can I control how many trend lines appear?
Yes. The current source includes a setting for the number of upper and lower trend lines displayed, plus controls for active, broken, extended, and countertrend views.
Can a strategy read these values?
Yes. It exposes latest swing high, swing low, trend high, and trend low values, so a strategy or other NinjaScript can read them without relying on the chart toolbar.
Does it work with custom bar types?
Trends MTF calculates from the default NinjaTrader data series. Custom bar types are not supported.
Requirements: Windows and NinjaTrader 8.1.2.1 or later.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Robert Rosenberg (verified owner)–
Best automated trendline drawing indicator for Ninjatrader. Have tried all out there. I use it for shortterm tickcharts and 5 min bar. You don’t need to look any further, Really a great, fast and easy to use tool. And thx Steve for your exceptional support!
Rated 5 out of 5
Mailman (verified owner)–
Finally! Here is a premiere traditional trend line drawing indicator that will not only saves the trader a lot of manual effort, but is wholly configurable and can display one timeframe’s trend lines on another timeframe’s chart. I won’t repeat all the options available here, as you can read about them in the product description. I do want to make special mention of Steve’s excellent support. In the first iteration of this new product that I saw, the trend lines would not extend into the future. (I generally extend mine when drawing manually to see around what time of day they may converge if those trends continue, etc.). A day after I mentioned this to Steve, he’d enhanced the product to make extending the trends an option! There are a lot of vendors out there but Steve and HTTA are consistently in the uppermost tier for Best Support from my POV. His work is always solid, trouble-free, and customizations costs (my request to extend the lines was not a custom job) are always reasonable. I can’t say enough good things about High Tech.
Robert Rosenberg (verified owner) –
Best automated trendline drawing indicator for Ninjatrader. Have tried all out there. I use it for shortterm tickcharts and 5 min bar. You don’t need to look any further, Really a great, fast and easy to use tool. And thx Steve for your exceptional support!
Mailman (verified owner) –
Finally! Here is a premiere traditional trend line drawing indicator that will not only saves the trader a lot of manual effort, but is wholly configurable and can display one timeframe’s trend lines on another timeframe’s chart. I won’t repeat all the options available here, as you can read about them in the product description. I do want to make special mention of Steve’s excellent support. In the first iteration of this new product that I saw, the trend lines would not extend into the future. (I generally extend mine when drawing manually to see around what time of day they may converge if those trends continue, etc.). A day after I mentioned this to Steve, he’d enhanced the product to make extending the trends an option! There are a lot of vendors out there but Steve and HTTA are consistently in the uppermost tier for Best Support from my POV. His work is always solid, trouble-free, and customizations costs (my request to extend the lines was not a custom job) are always reasonable. I can’t say enough good things about High Tech.