← PropTradeBot
How to automate NinjaTrader 8 from a Mac
NinjaTrader 8 runs on Windows, so PropTradeBot stays on your Mac and drives NT8 on a Windows PC or a Windows virtual machine through a small add-on called PTBBridge. Your TradingView alerts or Discord signals become NT8 orders with a stop, your trims and an end-of-day flatten.
Check your firm's rules first. Many prop firms don't allow automated trading. If you trade a prop account
in NinjaTrader, confirming your firm allows it is your responsibility. Setup asks you to confirm it, and PropTradeBot
doesn't check it for you.
How it works
- Find two addresses: the Windows PC's and your Mac's, on your home network.
- Create the add-on's settings file on the Windows PC: which accounts and instruments it may trade, and its
own hard limits.
- Add one Windows Firewall rule so only your Mac can reach the add-on.
- Install the add-on in NinjaTrader and compile it. It starts with NinjaTrader from then on.
- Connect PropTradeBot with the add-on's address and token, pick your accounts, and set your flatten time.
About 15 minutes. The step-by-step guide has the exact commands.
How trades are handled
- Only the stop rests at NinjaTrader. PropTradeBot fires your targets from NinjaTrader's live price.
- Discord signals are checked against NinjaTrader's own price. No fresh price, no trade.
- If the link to NinjaTrader drops, no new entries. When it's back, the open trade is rebuilt from NinjaTrader's
own positions before anything else happens.
- The add-on has its own limits: largest order, largest position and a daily loss limit. They hold even if
PropTradeBot misbehaves.
- At your flatten time, every position on those accounts is closed, not only PropTradeBot's.
What you need
- Your Mac, plus a Windows PC or a Windows virtual machine running NinjaTrader 8, logged in, on the same home network.
- A Windows administrator login, for the one firewall rule.
- Your signals: TradingView alerts or a Discord provider.
Never forward the add-on's port on your router. It's for your own network only.
Try it
$99/month founding price, locked for 12 months, with a 7-day free trial. Start on a practice account.
Start your 7-day trial
Setup guides
PropTradeBot is an execution tool. It doesn't provide signals, a strategy or any expected result.