NinjaTrader trade journal with commission tracking

Dusk Analyst does: its NinjaTrader 8 add-on sends each closed trade with its commission, and P&L in the journal is net of commission. Win rate, profit factor and your daily P&L are all worked out from net results, so commission-heavy scalping shows up as it really is.

Net. Each synced trade carries its commission as a separate figure, and the P&L is gross P&L minus that commission. You can see both what the market paid and what the fees took.

Sim accounts and some connections report zero commission. In the add-on's settings, type your commission per contract, per side (for example 2.09); the add-on then charges it for every contract on the entry and exit. When NinjaTrader does report commission, its own figure is used instead.

A trade is one flat-to-flat round trip per instrument, so many partial fills become one trade with average entry and exit prices. Commission is summed over all of those fills, so a 10-lot scaled in and out in pieces still shows its full cost.

On micro contracts a round-trip fee can be a large share of a small target, so a strategy that looks profitable gross can lose money net. Tracking commission per trade shows which setups still pay after fees, and how much overtrading costs you each week.

No. The add-on is a NinjaScript add-on, so it runs only in NinjaTrader 8 desktop on Windows. If you trade only on NinjaTrader's web or mobile apps, import a CSV of your trades or log them by hand instead.

NinjaTrader auto-sync is part of Pro, which costs $25/month. Every new Dusk Analyst account gets Pro free for 5 trading days with no card, then it is $25/month unless you cancel. The Free plan ($0 forever) covers manual entry and CSV import for up to 2 accounts, without the add-on.

As of November 2026, NinjaTrader lists $1.29 per side on standard contracts and $0.39 per side on micros on its Free plan, $0.99 and $0.29 on Monthly, and $0.59 and $0.09 on Lifetime. You pay it on entry and on exit. Exchange, clearing and NFA fees are extra.

As of November 2026, micros and e-nano contracts cost $0.39 per side on the Free plan, $0.29 on Monthly ($99/month) and $0.09 on Lifetime ($1,499), per NinjaTrader's pricing page. Exchange, clearing and NFA fees are added on top.

MES is a micro, so as of November 2026 it is $0.39 per side on the Free plan: $0.78 for 1 contract in and out, before exchange, clearing and NFA fees. On Monthly it is $0.29 per side, on Lifetime $0.09.

Two parts: NinjaTrader's commission per contract, per side (set by your plan), plus exchange, clearing and NFA fees that NinjaTrader says apply on top. The plans as of November 2026 are Free ($0), Monthly ($99/month) and Lifetime ($1,499 once).

As of November 2026, Tradovate lists $1.29 per side on standard futures and $0.39 on micros on its Free plan, $0.99 and $0.29 on Monthly ($99/month), and $0.59 and $0.09 on Lifetime ($1,499). Exchange, clearing and NFA fees still apply.

NinjaTrader has a history and trade report view that shows your past trades and some statistics, but that's not a trading journal in the review sense: it doesn't capture your entry reason, notes, emotional state or the context around each trade, and it doesn't track your journaling habits over time. A dedicated journal like Dusk Analyst stores the trade data and lets you layer review notes, tags and analysis on top, then report on win rate, profit factor, P&L and equity curve - the metrics that actually improve decisions. If you want the terminal's data without the manual copying, Dusk Analyst's EA reads the closed-trade history and syncs it automatically on Pro.

Every NinjaTrader terminal keeps a closed-trade history in its Account History view, and that data can be exported to a file for import elsewhere. Save the history as a report or CSV (the fields are standard: time, ticket, symbol, volume, price, commission, swap, profit), then import the file into Dusk Analyst on any plan - the free tier includes CSV import. On Pro you don't even need to export: the Dusk Analyst EA reads the same history automatically and pushes each close as it happens, including catch-up for periods the terminal was off.

Yes - Dusk Analyst's free tier is $0 forever and works with NinjaTrader: two accounts, manual entry and CSV import, with win rate, profit factor, P&L and equity curve calculated for you. That's a genuinely usable free journal, not a trial. If you want every closed NinjaTrader trade to sync itself, Pro adds the read-only EA at a flat $25/month with unlimited accounts and AI insights, and every new account gets Pro free for 5 trading days, no card.

No - the EA is deliberately light. It's a single read-only file that does two things: it watches for closed trades in the account history and it sends them over HTTPS with your per-account API key. It never places orders, never repaints charts and doesn't interfere with your indicators or other EAs; it runs on its own chart window, following the usual one-EA-per-chart convention. The network call is a few kilobytes per closed trade, so even on a slow connection there's no noticeable impact on the terminal or your execution.

Yes. The free tier costs $0 forever and includes two accounts, manual trade entry and CSV import - enough to journal a live account properly, with win rate, P&L and equity curve all calculated for you. There is no credit card required to start. Pro ($25/month flat) adds unlimited accounts, MT4/MT5/cTrader/NinjaTrader auto-sync, AI insights on your trading (1,000 trade-analyses a month), monthly reports and full export, and every new account gets Pro free for 5 trading days with no card. The pricing is deliberately simple: one plan, one price, no per-feature upsells.

Yes, and it needs no card. Every new Dusk Analyst account gets Pro free for 5 trading days from sign-up: auto-sync from MT4, MT5, cTrader and NinjaTrader 8, AI Insights with 1,000 credits, monthly reports and unlimited accounts. After that Pro is $25/month, and you can cancel anytime from Billing in the app. If you skip it, the account moves to Free with every trade kept.

Yes - CSV import is available on every plan, including free. If you've been tracking trades in a spreadsheet, broker export or another journal, export the CSV from wherever it lives and import it into Dusk Analyst; the journal matches it against your accounts and keeps your history continuous. Import is also the fallback for platforms that don't run MT4, MT5, cTrader or NinjaTrader 8. For MT4/MT5/cTrader/NinjaTrader terminals, Pro auto-syncs going forward and the EA backfills any trades your terminal missed while it was off. Any platform that exports a CSV of your trade history works. Dusk Analyst recognises TradingView, Tradovate, cTrader, MT4 and MT5 exports on sight; for anything else you map your columns once and that parser is saved for next time. Comma, semicolon and tab files are all handled, day-first and month-first dates are detected from the file itself, and any row that cannot be read is listed for you rather than dropped quietly.

Pro includes 1,000 AI trade-analyses every month. One credit covers one trade, so asking a question about a 40-trade week costs 40 credits and you can keep asking. The allowance resets on the 1st of each month and the counter sits in the top bar of the app, so you always know where you stand. Narrowing a question to one account or a shorter date range makes the same allowance go much further. Free accounts get a small number of AI credits to try AI Insights, alongside the full journal, analytics and weekly reports, and the free Pro week (5 trading days, no card) includes the full monthly allowance.