CrossTrade

What it is

CrossTrade is a bridge for futures traders on NinjaTrader 8 and Tradovate. You write the rule elsewhere — almost always a TradingView alert or strategy — and point its webhook at a permanent CrossTrade URL; the CrossTrade add-on inside NinjaTrader 8, or CrossTrade's cloud for a linked Tradovate account, turns the message into an order. The vendor quotes about 30 milliseconds from TradingView to the platform. A TradingView strategy can also be kept in sync by position state rather than by single alerts, so a dropped message is corrected rather than left open.

Around that it has grown a kit for the trader running several accounts — often prop-firm accounts, in the vendor's own examples: a trade copier between accounts in one NT8 instance, an account manager that enforces session profit and loss limits, trailing drawdown, trading windows and kill switches, a journal that imports NT8 fills daily and reports an Edge Score with Monte Carlo runs, and a browser trading dashboard with a chart and chart-based order entry. Elite adds Signal Share, which copies your own trades between separate NT8 installations — NT8 allows one Rithmic login per instance — and an MCP server.

The trading disclaimer is explicit that CrossTrade does not provide signals and does not select or rank signal sources. It carries the rule you wrote; it does not write one.

Pricing

Three paid plans, all with unlimited alerts and accounts. Standard at $29 a month covers one machine: webhooks, the journal and the manual trading dashboard. Pro at $49 adds the trade copier, the account manager, the REST API at 180 requests a minute, and alert delivery to email, Discord, Telegram or a webhook. Elite at $99 adds Signal Share, the MCP server and the management API. Yearly billing is $279, $469 and $949. Every plan has a 7-day trial; there are no refunds. A Chicago Windows VPS with NT8 preinstalled is a separate subscription. On 24 October the page still carried a July "25% off annual plans" sale banner above prices it calls standard rates, so check the price at checkout.

The trial does not turn into a subscription on its own. When it ends, or when a paid plan lapses, the account becomes the Free plan: the journal and its history stay, and Tradovate trades can be added by CSV, but automatic import stops and nothing routes an order. That is the free tier, and it is a journal, not a bridge.

Data & coverage

Futures, through whatever NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate account you connect — live, demo, simulation, and prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts alike. CrossTrade says what each prop firm allows on automation and copiers varies and is the trader's to check. The REST API returns real-time quotes and positions from the connected platform.

Integrations

TradingView in, NinjaTrader 8 and Tradovate out. On Tradovate the docs call webhooks, the account manager, the copier, the journal, the REST API and AI agents generally available, with two qualifications: the copier's order mode, which mirrors working orders, is in beta, and copying between accounts under different Tradovate logins or between demo and live is "still being validated"; one login, same environment, is the validated setup. The REST API on Pro covers orders, positions, balances, quotes and a websocket stream with bearer-token auth; the management API on Elite controls copiers, monitors and kill switches from your own code. An invite-only Partner Program offers the APIs to businesses for Tradovate only. There is an Android app, in open testing on Google Play, that reaches the NT8 installation on your PC or VPS, and a set of free open-source TradingView indicators.

Limitations

• Two platforms only. Without NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate there is nothing to route to; stock traders at other brokers are better served by TradersPost.
• NT8 has to be running. On NinjaTrader the add-on executes on your own machine or a VPS, so a closed PC means no orders.
• No backtesting and no rule builder. The rule's quality is TradingView's business; the journal's Monte Carlo runs work on trades already made.
• No refunds, and the sale banner on the pricing page was out of date when read.
• An AI agent on Elite can place real orders. The vendor's own FAQ says never to leave one unsupervised in a live account.

Alternatives

PickMyTrade is the closest product, also TradingView to futures and prop accounts, priced per login. TradersPost covers more brokers and asset classes at a higher price. SignalStack bills per order sent instead of a flat fee. If you want NinjaTrader's own strategy language instead of TradingView's, the platform itself is NinjaTrader.