Follow The Trend

Product Description

Follow The Trend indicator for NinjaTrader 8 is a flagship indicator by NTRR, built for serious traders who want to ride the trend with confidence, precision, and clarity.

This powerful tool automatically identifies the prevailing trend, tracks its strength, and visually displays critical trade signals—directly on your NinjaTrader chart.

Whether you're trading breakouts, pullbacks, or full-on trend reversals, Follow The Trend gives you the structure, logic, and visuals you need to make faster and smarter decisions.

It’s not just an indicator—it’s a framework for disciplined, strategy-aligned execution.

Key Features

• Automatic Trend Detection: Identifies strong and weak trends using ATR-based logic or configurable point/tick offsets.
• Dynamic Trend & Stop Lines: Plots real-time trend direction and trailing stop levels with full color, opacity, and width control.
• Pullback Signal Engine: Detects early or confirmed pullbacks during weak trends with customizable sensitivity and cooldown filters.
• Chart Bar Painting: Optionally color-code chart bars to reflect trend strength and direction.
• Background Painting: Visually segment your chart by trend phases using subtle background shading—perfect for market structure analysis.
• Modular Usage: Add the indicator multiple times to the same chart to visualize both major trend and minor trend conditions.
• Customizable Trend Logic: Select between ATR, ticks, or fixed points as your trend measurement base.
• Visual Signal Labels: Displays clear on-chart labels for key events—Trend Start (TS), Trend Strengthening (STR), and Trend Pullback (PB)—to highlight actionable moments with precision.

Paint your chart bars based on current trend strength—Strong or Weak—to stay focused and reduce visual distraction.

Easily identify key trend events in real time with clearly labeled chart markers. Whether it’s the beginning of a new trend (TS), a strengthening phase (STR), or a potential pullback (PB), each label helps you stay aligned with the market’s behavior at every stage.

How to Use It Effectively

You can apply Follow The Trend twice to the same chart:

• Minor Trend Instance: Configure with shorter ATR period and lower offsets for capturing tactical, tradeable trends.
• Major Trend Instance: Set with higher ATR period and larger offsets to determine overall market bias.

For example, if the major trend is bullish, you may choose to only take long signals from the minor trend. This creates a rule-based framework for filtering noise and aligning with higher trend direction.

Additionally, you can configure the background painting to apply only to the major trend instance for a clear visual distinction, while keeping the minor trend instance focused solely on line-based analysis.

NinjaScript Signals & Automation

Follow The Trend generates powerful signals that can be accessed through NinjaScript, enabling automated strategies and advanced filters. These include:

• Trend Line: (Trend_Line_Price) – The current trend reference level.
• Stop Line: (Stop_Line_Price) – The dynamic trailing stop level.
• Trend Signal: (Trend_Signal)
  Values:
  2 – Strong Uptrend
  1 – Weak Uptrend
  -1 – Weak Downtrend
  -2 – Strong Downtrend
• Trade Signal: (Trade_Signal)
  Values:
  3 – Uptrend Strengthening
  2 – Uptrend Pullback
  1 – Uptrend Start
  0 – No signal
  -1 – Downtrend Start
  -2 – Downtrend Pullback
  -3 – Downtrend Strengthening
• Wave Signal: (Wave_Signal)
  Represents the current trend wave count.
  A Wave is defined as a full sequence of a strong trend followed by a weak trend in the same direction. For example, a strong uptrend followed by a weak uptrend is counted as Wave 1. The next strong+weak sequence becomes Wave 2, and so on.
  - Positive values indicate waves in an uptrend.
  - Negative values indicate waves in a downtrend.
  This allows traders and strategies to track the maturity of a trend over time, making it easier to identify trend exhaustion, continuation patterns, or wave-based trade filters.

These signals can be easily integrated into custom strategies, used to trigger entries/exits, or as condition filters for trade management logic.

Customization Options

• Trend Measurement Method: ATR, Ticks, or Points.
• Trend & Stop Offset Multipliers (relative to ATR or chosen unit).
• Trend Bars Slowdown: Define how many bars must close against the trend before it’s classified as weak.
• Early Pullback Detection: Enable for more aggressive signals or disable for more conservative confirmation.
• Pullback Cooldown: Prevents frequent signals during consolidation.
• Full Visual Control: Customize all line colors, widths, and opacity settings.
• Toggle Painting: Enable/disable chart bar painting or background shading independently for full flexibility.

Built for Real Traders

Follow The Trend is engineered with both discretionary and systematic traders in mind. Whether you're executing manually or building a fully automated strategy, this tool gives you the structure and clarity to stay aligned with the market’s true direction—without lag, confusion, or noise.

Start trading with discipline. Start trading with the trend.