NinjaTrader licences

NinjaTrader opens live accounts only for residents of the countries listed in its account application, which include the United States, the United Kingdom and most of the EEA; its help centre says an account cannot be opened from a country missing from that list. The application refuses more than 100 countries and territories, among them Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Nigeria, South Africa and the Philippines, and within the EEA it refuses Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta, Romania and Slovenia. In Canada, only residents of Ontario can open an account.

For clients of NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC, withdrawals requested before 12:00 PM Central time on a business day are processed that day, and US wires and ACH transfers typically arrive by the next business morning. For wires to banks outside the US, one help-centre article gives up to three business days and another 1 to 4 business days. Deposits are held first: ACH and debit card deposits wait 5 calendar days before an ACH withdrawal and 10 before a wire, and trading profits must clear overnight. The EU site gives no withdrawal time, and its terms release trading proceeds only after an overnight clearing period.

Yes. Every NinjaTrader plan includes simulated trading, and the platform is free to use for charting, backtesting and simulated trading; only live trading needs a funded account. A new account also comes with a free 14-day trial of streaming live market data.

NinjaTrader offers its own platform as NinjaTrader Desktop for Windows PCs, NinjaTrader Web in any PC or Mac browser and a mobile app for iPhone and Android; there is no Mac desktop version, and the desktop software is downloaded from the client dashboard after login. Charting, backtesting and simulated trading are free, while live trading needs a funded account. Clients can also link their account to TradingView and trade futures from its charts, which the connection guide says is free with a funded account on the current plans, although the TradingView page still states a fee of $9.99 a month.

Yes, on the Free plan: accounts that log in but place no live trade pay a $35 Minimum Account Activity Fee, which the US fee list charges every 30 days and the EU and UK fee lists for each month. Accounts on legacy plans from before 20 June 2025 pay $25 instead.

NinjaTrader charges commission per contract and per side at a rate set by your pricing plan, with exchange, clearing and NFA fees added on top. The Free plan has no monthly fee and charges $0.39 on Micro and e-Nano contracts and $1.29 on standard contracts; the Monthly plan costs $99 a month and charges $0.29 and $0.99; and the Lifetime plan costs $1,499 once and charges $0.09 and $0.59, with Order Flow+ included.

No. NinjaTrader states that there is no deposit minimum, and its pricing plan benefits start once a live account is funded with any amount above $0. Individual transfers do have small minimums: $5 for ACH and debit card deposits, and 1 EUR for EU wires and card deposits. The $50 figure on its site is the intraday margin for a Micro contract, not a deposit.

NinjaTrader offers support 24/5 by phone on 1-800-496-1683, by email at support@ninjatrader.com and by live chat on its website, and its contact page adds technical support at weekends. A 24-hour Emergency Trade Desk on 312-423-2234 handles emergencies and live orders only, while the help centre at support.ninjatrader.com and a community forum answered by the technical support team cover self-service questions. EEA clients chat with support from their dashboard or email support@ninjatrader.com, as the EU site prints no phone number. NinjaTrader says it communicates only through its verified support and social channels and has no Telegram account.

NinjaTrader is a futures-only broker: its margins page lists 165 exchange-traded futures contracts on exchanges including CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, Eurex, ICE Futures US and Coinbase Derivatives. They cover equity index futures in E-mini, Micro and e-Nano sizes, interest-rate, currency, metals, energy, agricultural and cryptocurrency futures, and single stock futures. Spot forex, CFDs and shares cannot be traded through a NinjaTrader brokerage account; NinjaTrader Desktop reaches those markets only through other brokers, with its paid Multi-Broker add-on.

NinjaTrader requires money to come from accounts in your own name, and US bank accounts used for ACH transfers are linked, and may need to be verified, through Plaid. The ACH account must be titled in the same name as the NinjaTrader account, and an ACH deposit whose bank balance Plaid cannot verify is held for three business days before it clears. Wires must also come from an account in your name; Wise, Revolut and other third-party payment services, third-party and cashier's checks, and transfers between business and individual accounts are refused, and the EU terms likewise bar funding by third parties.

NinjaTrader publishes no maximum leverage ratio, because leverage on its futures accounts comes from the margin it sets per contract. Intraday margins are $10 to $20 for e-Nano index contracts, $50 for Micro contracts, $500 for E-mini index contracts and $1,000 for crude oil, gold and natural gas, while positions held overnight need the exchange's initial margin, which the site puts at roughly 5% of a contract's notional value. Intraday margins may be raised to four times the standard rate from at least 15 minutes before key economic news.

Clients of NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC can deposit by debit card, wire transfer, Google Pay or Apple Pay, plus ACH or personal check for US residents, and withdraw only by wire or, for US residents, ACH; credit cards, Wise, Revolut and other third-party payment services are refused. NinjaTrader charges nothing for incoming deposits, ACH withdrawals are free, a domestic wire withdrawal costs $30 and an international one 30 units of the currency sent, with a $50 minimum withdrawal. EEA clients fund by EUR SEPA, including SEPA Instant, by USD SWIFT wire or by euro debit card and withdraw by bank transfer: the EU fee article lists SEPA at 0 EUR in and 1 EUR out and SWIFT at 3 USD in and 13 USD out, while the EU pricing page lists incoming wires as free and wire withdrawals at $30, or 30 units for international wires.

Yes. NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC, NinjaTrader's US brokerage, is registered with the CFTC as a futures commission merchant and is an NFA member under NFA ID 0309379, and Payward Europe Digital Solutions (CY) Limited, which serves EEA clients, is authorised by CySEC under licence 342/17; the NFA's BASIC register and the CySEC register confirm all three, checked on 7 November 2026. In the US, customer funds must be kept segregated and capital rules apply, but futures accounts have no government compensation scheme. Eligible EEA retail clients are covered by Cyprus's Investor Compensation Fund up to 20,000 EUR per client, which never covers trading losses.