This is a very popular topic. We can add buttons to pretty much anything in NinjaTrader using the same principles. Buttons can be added from AddOn, Indicator or Strategy class doesn’t really matter. The approach is almost the same for all of them. In this article, I will go through the main principles that you need to understand when adding buttons.
Did you know that you can use WPF to add any type of functionality to your NinjaTrader strategy or indicator classes? Well, yes you can. In this article, we will be adding a WPF window form to a strategy and passing values to the form and receiving values back.
So the whole set up consists of a few elements.
AddOn code
XAML code for the form
Strategy code