Imagine spending minutes configuring all the parameters of an indicator or strategy to fit your preferences, only for the chart to refresh and lose all your work! It happens, but you can avoid this headache by simply using templates.
A template is a predefined configuration of parameters that you can save and load anytime, or even set as the default values whenever you add an indicator or strategy to a chart.
In this post, we’ll show you how to save your own templates, giving you more time for the important tasks!
Saving a template
Step 1: Open the configuration window for an indicator or strategy.
After configuring all the parameters to fit your preferences, click on “Template” in the bottom right corner of the window. The text will expand to show three options: Save, Load, and Reset.
- The “Reset” option will restore all parameters to the defaults originally set by the programmer.
- The “Save” option allows you to create different presets for the indicator/strategy, which you can load later either on demand or by default (when adding to any chart).
- The “Load” option lets you select and load a saved template.
If you click on ‘Save,’ you can assign a name to the current configuration of parameters and save it as a preset. If you want to save the configuration as the default preset, NinjaTrader will automatically name it ‘Default’ and load it every time you add the indicator or strategy to a chart.
In the example below, we configured 9 custom actions (last 3 rows of buttons) to manage stop/target orders using the QuickTrader tool and saved it as a Default template. Now, every time we add this tool to a chart, it will automatically load the custom actions we configured.
