Your real-time execution conscience. Watchdog watches eight setups across every timeframe and tells you the moment one actually fires — then grades the trade as you take it and journals it automatically, turning months of trades into a clear map of where your edge lives and where it leaks. As of v1.6.1 it also journals the trades you take by hand on the chart, and copies them to up to twenty accounts.
A clinical walkthrough of the discipline loop — the scenario engine flagging setups live, entries scored as they’re taken, and every trade journaled and reviewed.
Installation & Setup Guide (PDF) → v1.2.8 Supplemental Manual (PDF) →
Watchdog tracks eight distinct setups in real time — momentum continuations, reversals, three-timeframe scalps, waterfall breaks — and tells you the moment one actually fires. Not a vague alignment readout. A named, directional entry on the 5-minute card, with a siren.
When a setup is one condition away from triggering, it posts an amber warning to the Alert Log. You’re watching the right chart before the entry appears — not reading about it afterwards.
When every filter clears, the setup flashes on the card with its code and direction — E‑Lng, F2‑Sht — and a siren. One signal at a time, priority-ranked, so two setups never compete for your attention.
Most traders journal in a spreadsheet they abandon by week three. Watchdog makes the record automatic and the feedback immediate — so the discipline actually sticks.
Real-time 5M / 15M / 1H / 4H trend alignment, EMA separation, and market structure in one panel — so you see context before you click, not after.
Entry, stop, target, scale-ins and scale-outs captured automatically, then scored on execution — timing, stop placement, exit management, emotional state.
Win rate, average execution score, P&L, grade distribution, and a psychology breakdown that links your emotional state to your results.
Connects directly to NinjaTrader 8 over a local bridge with the bundled JTM Watchdog chart indicator — live market feed, live orders, and account-aware logging.
Momentum continuations, reversals, three-timeframe scalps and waterfall breaks — each one named, directional, and surfaced the moment its conditions clear.
A discipline read on the day you actually traded: how much you took on signal, what went off-plan, which setups you leaned on, and what to fix tomorrow.
Followers converge on the master’s position rather than relaying its orders, so a rejected account repairs itself. Micro↔mini cross, per-account sizing, and a single exit — the master’s.
Chart Trader, an ATM or the DOM — the Log Trade form fills itself in as the trade develops, including partial fills, scale legs and reversals. It observes and never manages.
Every NinjaTrader account on a live connection is detected automatically. Give one the Master role and any others Follow, and the followers mirror the master’s position for as long as the copier is armed.
Watchdog computes a target position per follower and steers it there. An account that is already correct sends no order at all; one that was rejected is retried on the next evaluation, so it repairs itself the moment margin frees up.
The master’s stop and target are the only exit in the system. A follower with its own stop would fire while the master was still in the trade — and the engine would read the gap as a signal to re-enter.
Tick Cross and a follower trades the other contract size of the same product. The row names the exact instrument and contract count, and shows the risk ratio in money — because a multiplier hides what a cross really costs.
Ships disarmed every session, dry run on. Flatten detaches an account rather than sending a lone order. Flatten All Followers never touches the master. A dead-man stop protects followers if the link drops.
Add to a position and Watchdog recomputes your weighted-average entry, your total size, and the dollars at risk on every single leg — so the risk of the whole position stays on screen instead of in your head. Scale out in stages, leave a runner, and every leg is recorded.
When the position finally flattens, the trade is auto-logged with its complete scale-in / scale-out history — every leg, the true contract count, the R-multiple. All that’s left is to tag how you executed it.
The Live Chart plots the same EMA 14 / 50 the engine uses for its trend and alignment calls — so the numbers in the panel always have a picture behind them.
Connect over a local bridge, import the bundled JTM Watchdog chart indicator, and configure the optional AI analysis — all from a single settings panel.
Logging is only half the value — the other half is what comes back out. Watchdog turns your trades into AI-assisted analysis and clean, shareable PDF reports.
The HP tab runs an AI-assisted read across your logged trades — execution-score trends, rolling profit factor, expectancy, and survivability stats like the probability of consecutive-loss streaks. It’s the outside perspective most journals never give you.
Every session exports to a polished PDF — a summary report card plus one annotated trade-detail page per trade, complete with chart snapshot, execution tags, and score breakdown. A complete journal in one file, ready to review or share with a coach.
Figures shown in example reports and analysis screens are illustrative, drawn from sample and replay data for demonstration. They are not performance claims and are not indicative of future results.
At the end of a session, Coach turns your logged trades into a discipline review — how much you took on signal, what went off-plan, which setups you leaned on, and a written summary of the patterns worth fixing before tomorrow.
Watchdog is the discretionary half of a system validated across months of historical replay — the same discipline framework, now in your hands trade by trade.
HYPOTHETICAL
“Validated” here means validated in backtesting — NinjaTrader 8 market replay over historical data. It does not mean validated in live trading. No real money was at risk in those tests and no customer account produced their results. Hypothetical performance has inherent limitations, including the benefit of hindsight and the absence of live slippage, latency and fill quality. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. Past and hypothetical performance are not indicative of future results, and futures trading carries a substantial risk of loss.
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