NinjaTrader is a Chicago-based futures trading platform and brokerage founded in 2003. The company provides software and brokerage services to active futures traders, and counts more than 1.9 million users worldwide - a figure that has grown by 400% over the past five years. Its brokerage is rated number one in the futures category worldwide.
The core product is the NinjaTrader trading platform, award-winning software that enables futures traders to analyse market data, execute trades, and customise their experience through a developer API and third-party app ecosystem. Alongside the platform, NinjaTrader operates as a registered futures broker, offering an integrated path from software to live trading. The company supplements these with daily free market education and analysis, as well as always-on customer support.
NinjaTrader's technical work spans trading platform development, brokerage infrastructure, market data systems, developer tooling, and the content and operations that support a large and growing retail trading user base. The company describes its culture as entrepreneurial and employee-centric, with an emphasis on modernising and broadening access to futures markets.
