What is happening with NinjaTrader? Why is it becoming worst with every update?

Sorry, I really don’t like to complain — especially about a platform that’s been incredibly good to me. I’ve made serious profits on NT over the years, and for that I’m genuinely grateful.

But lately, it feels like every update is taking the platform backwards instead of forwards.

For example, the live connection drops almost daily now. And before anyone suggests it — no, it’s not my internet. I’m running on a rock-solid backbone through an AWS server that rarely ever hiccups. Several friends with similar high-end setups are experiencing the exact same thing.

On top of that, my robot has started acting up, and even simple manual orders are causing havoc. I’ve already rebuilt my entire setup on another platform as a backup, because I don’t want to “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs”… but honestly, those eggs are starting to smell pretty bad lately.

I know the helpdesk tries their best (and I believe they’re still the original NT team, not the new TradoVate crew), but at some point we have to admit: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

It really feels like there’s a new project leader who’s changing too much, too fast. I’ve seen this movie before in my own companies — and it rarely ends well.

All of this is slowly killing my motivation. Instead of wanting to improve and grow my trading here, I’m starting to think about just closing everything out (with profits, of course), draining the accounts, and moving on. And I know I’m not the only one feeling this way.

Please — for the love of everything profitable — shut down the Broker Profiling Department. That’s hands-down the worst way to treat successful, long-term customers.

I’ve built my own company since 1999. We’ve grown every single year by delivering outstanding customer service — not by profiling or punishing our best clients. That’s exactly why we’re still thriving while others shrink.

Sorry for the long vent — this has been boiling inside me for a while. I just felt I had to say it.

What have you noticed, please elaborate.

What has been your experence with this?

Feedback is always good.

I’m curious what you’ve analyzed so far on your end.

Have you checked the stability and speed of your internet connection? Have you set up any type of monitoring system that records connection quality throughout the trading day?

I ask because I ran into a similar situation with another trader. The symptoms appeared to point at the platform, but after setting up a monitoring system that tracked internet activity, connection drops, latency, packet loss, and outages, we were able to determine exactly when and why his trading system was losing connectivity.

The benefit of having this data is that when your trading bot, strategy, or platform goes offline, you can review the logs and analytics and immediately determine whether the issue originated from NinjaTrader, your broker connection, or your internet service.

Without monitoring, it’s easy to assume the platform is at fault. With proper tracking in place, you have objective data that can identify the source of the problem with much greater confidence. Also i would add the system to make sure that it also running 100%, so u have 3 things you need to run at the same time to test these issues, hope this helps ,

we are at war, and are computers are being attacked mine is anyway, build your case and stand strong.

The ‘Live’ connection just is not what it used to be. Before the change you could run NT for the whole week without any interuptions. Now…we are happy if it stays connected for 2 days.

Your profiling departement is horrendous. My wife got kicked out, just because some woman in that department felt like doing so, WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATIONS!! She had at one point almost a milljion dollars in her accounts. Was trading every day, in and out. But when we contacted the Helpdesk, they told us to contact the Profiling departement, BUT THEY NEVER ANSWERED!!
Really the most dumbest things I ever have encountered and the worst PR. You think I would now recommend NT? NOPE!! I am now recommending another platform and broker to my circle of friends!!

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Actually I did and always do. And yes, this backbone is stable as a rock!! I also have another platform on a similar setup (just copied the disk image) and this one runs like a train…so yes, this is NT, not the internet.

Contact them again, or call NinjaTrader directly. They have a phone number on your trading billing statement. They should be able to sort it out.