Most importantly getting a UI, maybe a web based UI that responds quickly…since I have started using Ninjatrader I spend hours everyday just waiting for ninjatrader UI to respond…and I never open a chart…I only use control centre and ninjascript output window…but just having over 20 strategies running in headless mode, renders ninjatrader UI pretty much unusable. ninjatrader core works perfectly fine, all ticks getting processed all trades being made with no issues…but not the UI.
If they could just provide a decent UI for algo traders, I imagine a lot of engineering might have gone in making the present UI for chart traders, but no offence to the engineers, the ninjatrader UI is the most rubbish UI I have seen since the days of Swing UI that java had introduced 25 years back.
A bigger list of my wishlist is available here, I am not even a power user, just a very basic user and I can already see so many issues - Very basic features missing in NinjaTrader
An example of how rubbish ninjatrader UI is is - in trade performance report all losses are shown in red, but profits are never shown in green, they have the same color and font as everything else..this example is very telling of what a low priority UI must have been for the ninjatrader team…and that might actually be a good thing, ugly UI can suggest sometimes that the tool must be built by brilliant geeks, but slow UI is not built by geeks, its built lazy developers.