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 We're in the middle of the transition from the September contract to December, and this week we started a series of weekly technical analysis live sessions to walk through how we handle these rollover days step by step. Why rollover complicates automated trading During the transition between contracts, volume is split between the old contract and the new one. When that split is close to 50/50 — as it was this morning before the open — no automated system has a reliable read on real liquidity, so we prefer to turn off automated systems until volume clearly shifts toward one of the two contracts. NinjaTrader's default setting (for normal trading) By default, NinjaTrader has Merge Back Adjusted enabled (Tools > Options > Market Data). With this setting, the platform automatically merges successive contracts into a single continuous series, adjusting historical prices so there are no visible gaps between one contract and the next. This is the right setting for day-to-day t...

 Why your NinjaTrader 8 workspace never saves, how to place orders from the chart, and how to set up ATM strategies with automatic stops and targets. No coding. Installing NinjaTrader 8 is documented everywhere. What happens in the twenty minutes after that is not — and that is where most people get stuck. This is the first entry in a new run of the Do It Yourself series covering platform fundamentals. We start with NinjaTrader 8, and Quantower and TradingView follow. Everything below is in the video, with chapter markers if you want to jump to one section. 1. The default workspace cannot be saved Open the platform for the first time and you get a preset layout with a few charts and a SuperDOM. You rearrange it, add your indicators, set your timeframes. Then you close NinjaTrader, reopen it, and everything is back the way it was. This is not a bug. The default workspaces that ship with the platform are protected — you cannot modify or delete them, and any change you make is disc...

  One question comes up almost every week in our live sessions: do I actually need a VPS to trade? The honest answer is that it depends on how you trade. If you open your platform, watch the chart for half an hour and close it, your own computer is fine. But the moment your trading depends on something being awake while you are not watching it, an automated strategy, a trade copier, alerts that have to fire on time, a funded account with rules that do not forgive, your computer stops being a tool and becomes a single point of failure. A VPS is simply a Windows machine that lives in a datacenter and runs around the clock. You connect to it by remote desktop from your PC, your laptop or your phone, leave the platform running, close the window, and everything keeps working without you. Here is what that actually buys you. Your strategy should not depend on the power grid in your house This is the part most traders underestimate. A blackout. An internet outage. A Windows update that re...