One particularly useful feature in the NinjaTrader app is the ability to add multiple instruments to a single chart panel. This allows traders to simultaneously view and analyze the price action of different instruments, facilitating correlation studies, comparative analysis, or multi-asset strategies—all within a unified interface.
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By combining multiple instruments in one chart panel, you can:
Compare price movements: Identify trends, divergences, or correlations between markets.
Overlay instruments: Visualize two or more instruments on the same price scale for direct comparison.
Enhance analysis: Use custom indicators across multiple instruments for deeper insights.
In the following steps, we’ll walk through how to add multiple instruments to a chart panel in NinjaTrader, ensuring you can maximize this functionality to enhance your trading workflow.
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First you open your NinjaTrader app. Start with the RIGHT CLICK on the panel and go to DATA SERIES:
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Once you’re in DATA SERIES, you should pick an instrument you’d like to add on the top of the little window (In our case GBPCAD)
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Select the INSTRUMENT you’d like to add from the drop-down menu and you will see that it will show up as the NEW PANEL:
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Click on APPLY and it will show up in your existing CHART PANEL, so you can follow two instruments at the same time and/or compare the prices in the real time.
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You can customize the panels dimensions by clicking on the MIDDLE LINE that separates your two instruments and resize the one you want to:
And you can also create a single panel with multiple instruments in order to better gauge relative magnitude of the move
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Start with RIGHT CLICK on the panel you want to add instrument on and go to DATA SERIES:
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Then, just like before, select the instrument you’d like to add (EURUSD in our case):
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Then make sure you select the PANEL where you want to add the INSTRUMENT to:
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Make sure to set SCALE JUSTIFICATION to OVERLAY:
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Check if PANEL and SCALE JUSTIFICATION are set and click APPLY:
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Then the CHART will appear in the SELECTED PANEL like this:
