Installing the Trade The Indexes addon in NinjaTrader is easy. Once you purchase the addon, the addon’s zip file can be downloaded from your account page.
Downloading zip file
- Go to the account page.
- Login using the email address that you have used while purchasing the addon.
- Once logged in, if you have purchased the addon, you will find the link to download the addon’s zip file.
The next step is to install the downloaded zip file in NinjaTrader and activate the license key.
Installing
Start the NinjaTrader application and login to your account. Once you are logged, from the NinjaTrader panel, go to Tools > Import > NinjaScript Addon.
- Select the zip file which was previously downloaded.
- Click yes for all the dialog prompted.
Once the addon is installed, NinjaTrader requires to restart the NinjaTrader application.
- Click ok button and now NinjaTrader will ask to restart the application inorder to complete the installing process.
- To exit, click the cross “x” button on the top right side.
- Done, restart the application again.
- Login to the NinjaTrader.
Activating license
Once you have installed the addon the next step is to activate the license key. License key can be activated from the NinjaTrader application dashboard.
- Go to new menu item.
- Click Trade The Indexes Addon from the dropdown.
- You will be presented with the screen to activate your license key.
- Paste the license key which was copied earlier from the TradeTheIndexes dashboard.
- Click the activate button.
- If the license is valid, the license activation request will be successful.
Once the license activation is successful, indicators can be used.