NC Stream Master Description
NC Stream Master is a semi-automated order helper strategy for NinjaTrader 8, and it comes with the full C# source code. On Renko charts, traders often hunt for the last reversal brick and put an order just beyond it, for a breakout or a bounce. That's slow in a moving market, so I put it on buttons. It's a helper, not an autopilot: you arm it, and it takes one trade at a time.
How it works. A reversal is a candle colored opposite to the one before; any bar type works, but it's made for Renko. A swing high is the high of a red candle after a green one, a swing low the low of a green candle after a red one. PLACE, while flat, finds the latest swing high above the current bar and swing low below it, within Place Max LookBack bars, and puts orders Entry Order Offset (1 tick) beyond them: a buy stop above and sell stop below in BREAK mode, a sell limit above and buy limit below in BOUNCE mode. Long and Short choose the sides. When one fills, the other is cancelled, and a target and stop go Target Ticks (20) and Stop Ticks (20) from the fill, for Position Size (1). With TRADE on, waiting orders follow price: when a new reversal candle closes, the order on its side moves to its high or low plus the offset. WALK moves waiting orders out to the next swing; CLEAR cancels them.
What you see. Seven buttons in the chart toolbar: TRADE (green when on, off by default), LONG and SHORT toggles, PLACE, WALK, CLEAR, and the mode switch, BREAK or BOUNCE. Switching the mode cancels the waiting orders. There are no plots, just your orders on the chart. It calculates on each tick.
How to use it. Pick BREAK or BOUNCE, press PLACE, and switch TRADE on to have the orders follow each reversal. Fit Target Ticks and Stop Ticks to your brick size. Turning Long or Short off doesn't cancel a waiting order, so use CLEAR. Orders start from the buttons, so the Strategy Analyzer can't test it; try Sim101 or Market Replay first, and use it at your own risk.
Make it yours. Like all my frameworks, it comes with a code review video that walks through the code. Use it as is, learn from the code, or change it yourself or with AI like Claude. You could add a break-even or trailing stop, re-arm PLACE after each trade, or add a session window. Buttons, swing search and order handling are kept apart, so it's an easy base to build on. Have some good trades!
