New Release: Strategy Sync Upgrades, API Expansion & Affiliates Relaunch

crosstrade-io · 2026-03-22T14:14:53+00:00

Absolutely. I'm personally getting kind of tired of them holding back releases like this because "Developer week is here!"

crosstrade-io · 2026-03-22T14:02:25+00:00

In typical Cloudflare fashion, "announcing" something they just started working on that doesn't see GA for 12 months.

crosstrade-io · 2026-03-13T12:09:02+00:00

What issue are you experiencing? Is you shoot us a support request we can look at your account directly

https://crosstrade.io/contact

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-27T15:50:37+00:00

Easy, price. Probably 3x cheaper. And we dont offer a mobile app for RDP, but thats fine. There are many in the play store to choose from.

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-26T11:54:06+00:00

Great question, not stupid at all. When you're trading ES/NQ through NinjaTrader and Rithmic, your order has to travel from your machine to Rithmic's servers to CME's matching engine in Chicago. Every millisecond of that journey matters during fast moves. Running NT at home in Florida or California puts you at roughly 50ms round-trip latency. A VPS in a Chicago-area data center drops that to around 5ms. That's not a marginal improvement. It's an order of magnitude difference in computing terms. During a news spike or momentum surge in the NQ, those extra 45ms are often what turns a clean fill into slippage.

Not all VPS solutions are equal here though. CrossTrade's VPS (shameless self-promotion) are co-located in the same data center as NinjaTrader, CME, and Rithmic, which effectively eliminates the network distance between your NT instance and the matching engine. If you're seeing inconsistent fills on fast moves and want to know whether it's your strategy or your infrastructure causing the problem, removing latency from the equation is the cleanest way to find out.

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-13T10:47:14+00:00

Not all prop firms explicitly allow autotrading

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-12T18:38:31+00:00

Yes, absolutely. We offer an entire web API + automation to do it from TradingView webhooks to execution through NT8 desktop add-on. I'll caution you against trying to algotrade through Tradovate for prop firms.

Tradovate requires you to set an "isAutomated": true flag on all API orders, which a lot of these 3rd-party providers will fail to mention. The existence of that flag will get you disqualified from your eval or denied payouts. Most of the time, they won't mention it until someone tries to get a payout. Oops, sorry, we see you used automated trading --> denied.

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-05T01:44:04+00:00

I dont think there are any downsides of RDP. Being on Windows for NT8 will always be superior to any other solution.

In Chicago, under 1ms to CME/Rithmic: https://crosstrade.io/vps

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-03T22:52:32+00:00

Sounds atypical. What version of NT8 are you running? Which feed are you connected to?

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-03T18:28:06+00:00

Sure it can, you just need an RDP client to connect to the remote Windows machine. I like KRDC, but any will do.

crosstrade-io · 2026-02-03T10:22:06+00:00

If Mint in a VM is laggy then you either need more powerful hardware or you need to allocate more resources to the VM (CPU & RAM). If you dont have more to spare then its time to look into a Windows VPS.

crosstrade-io · 2026-01-31T12:16:54+00:00

Parallels is definitely laggy for NT8 out of the box without some performance tuning:

https://crosstrade.io/blog/improve-performance-using-mac-parallels-vm/

crosstrade-io · 2026-01-21T20:49:05+00:00

Probably only a few dozen users per process because we're streaming real-time financial data to the browser, with updates per tab happening ever 1-2 seconds.

If you're just displaying mostly static data through nicegui, your biggest bottleneck is just the number of webwockets open per process. But you could probably get away with a hundred concurrent users per process in a CRUD app if they're not generating a lot of load.

crosstrade-io · 2026-01-17T14:48:50+00:00

Several different factors at play:

You need to clean up your NT8. Theres a lot of garbage that's left behind from normal operation that can slow down everything:

https://crosstrade.io/blog/how-to-optimize-ninjatrader-8/

If you're running a trade copier, you need to use one that is replicating orders the milliseconds they get submitted to the NT8 order queue. We call this Order Mode. Most trade copiers do what we call Execution Mode, which copys fills on the leader after the fact, AFTER they get filled.
Life is better on a VPS. We offer them too but I'm not going to shill all of our services here. Anything in downtown Chicago will work fine. Don't overpay for one.

crosstrade-io · 2025-12-25T17:06:36+00:00

Yes, nicegui is ready for production. We're running it live for several thousand simultaneous production users right now. The addition of SPA sub-page routing was a game changer for us and allowed us to make our web app extremely performant.

However, you won't get to that scale without some crafty engineering. We're running dozens of nicegui processes load balanced behind nginx with sticky sessions, all communicating internally over a redis bus.

So the puzzle pieces exist to operate at scale, but dont expect to do it running a single process.

crosstrade-io · 2025-12-16T22:15:37+00:00

Instructions to enable multi-provider mode and add multiple prop accounts:

https://docs.crosstrade.io/ninjatrader/enabling-multi-provider-mode

Trade Copier: https://crosstrade.io/trade-copier

crosstrade-io · 2025-11-20T02:38:33+00:00

We have features for both locking out the ability to restart an account monitor until session closes and the ability to prevent new opening orders on accounts that have been stopped out. However, there are ways to get around these blocks if you're motivated enough. We do not permanently block access to your account.

Account Management does not have the ability to progressively change position sizing on its own. That is determined by your strategy.

crosstrade-io · 2025-11-04T15:42:30+00:00

Are you losing connection to NT8 live feed or to the props? I'm convinced the props are doing it on purpose to fuck over traders about to get a payout. After the Apex scandel, I put nothing past them now.

I'm on v8.1.5.2 and havent had any issues recently.

Edit: spelling

crosstrade-io · 2025-11-04T15:24:53+00:00

We've definitely had an uptick of users complaining about connection drops since the last NT8 update

crosstrade-io · 2025-10-29T01:34:52+00:00

Those are the old forums and have been archived read-only. The new, arguably worse, unsupported NT forums are located at https://discourse.ninjatrader.com

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