NC Smart Scalper Description
NC Smart Scalper is a semi-automated scalping bot for NinjaTrader 8, and it comes with the full C# source code. Scalping Renko-style bars has always excited me: you know in advance how far price must go for the next bar to close. I wanted a bot I switch on when I like the moment, which then takes a few quick scalps for me. The honest part: there's no stop order, and it only trades live, so it can't be backtested.
How it works. It runs on my NC Renko bars and calculates on each tick. From the last closed bar and your NC Renko settings it works out a close level ahead of the bar and a reverse level behind it. In Pullback mode (Entry Mode LimitPullback, the default), after an up bar it waits for price to trade above the close level, then places a buy limit at that bar's close for a quick pullback. Breakout mode places a buy stop at the close level instead. Down bars mirror both for shorts. An unfilled entry is cancelled when the next bar starts. Once filled, a limit target goes the close-level distance beyond the fill, plus Target Offset (0 ticks). If a bar closes against the trade, it exits at market. Position Size is 1; after Max Scalps (2) trades it switches itself off.
What you see. Buttons on the chart toolbar: SCALP starts and stops the bot, LONG and SHORT switch each side, and PULLBACK/BREAKOUT flips the mode. REVERSE arms one counter move: the first bar after a color change in Pullback mode, a stop at the reverse level in Breakout mode. MARK LONG and MARK SHORT draw a draggable dashed line where you click; longs then need to be above the green line and shorts below the red one (reversed with REVERSE), and CLEAR removes them. A counter shows scalps against Max Scalps, with reset and live edit. Blue and violet-red dashed lines mark the close and reverse levels.
How to use it. Nothing trades until you click SCALP. Switch off the side you don't want and keep Max Scalps small. With no stop order, stay at the screen while it runs. Run it on Sim101 for a good while before going live, and use it at your own risk.
Make it yours. Use it as is, learn from the code, or change it yourself or with AI like Claude. You could add a protective stop at the reverse level, a target two bars away, or a time window. Buttons, levels and order handling sit in separate parts of the code, so it's an easy base to build on. Have some good trades!
