Understanding Futures Trading: A Beginners Guide
Have you ever heard about futures trading and wondered how it works or how you might get involved? Perhaps you’ve…
I’m a futures trader who’s been trading for 10+ years. This is my site, MyDailyTake, where I blog, share, and journal my setups.

Have you ever heard about futures trading and wondered how it works or how you might get involved? Perhaps you’ve…
Introduction Over more than a decade, I’ve dedicated countless hours to coding indicators and strategies for NinjaTrader 6.5, 7, and…
If you’ve ever watched a market grind sideways for thirty bars and then explode in one direction without warning, the…
You wrote your first custom indicator. It plots cleanly, the math is right, you’re happy. Then you want to see…
jdehorty’s Nadaraya-Watson Envelope is a kernel-regression non-repainting trend filter. The Rational-Quadratic kernel weighs each historical bar by a smooth, fast-decaying…
Free NinjaTrader 8 conversion of Electrified’s SuperTrend+ from TradingView. Includes VAWMA smoothing, confirmation bars, outlier filtering, and SharpDX rendering. Full source code and download.
You’ve read enough of the foundational posts in this series to know what OnBarUpdate, OnStateChange, and Plots do in isolation….
I’m not “back to posting.” I’m not starting a schedule. I’m not making promises. I’m not doing the whole “consistent…
In Part 3, we laid the groundwork for our Better Moving Average (BMA) indicator — setting up the file structure,…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Life stuff, personal stuff, family stuff—you know, all the stuff. But I’m…
If you’ve ever wanted to track live trades, monitor bid/ask changes, or build a tool that reacts faster than a…
Debugging is one of the most underrated skills when it comes to writing NinjaScript indicators. You can have the cleanest…