What "automatic" actually means
Most "trading journals" still depend on you to do something. Export a CSV after the session, paste it into a spreadsheet, fix the timestamps, fill in the stop you remember from the chart. The product breaks the moment you skip a day.
TurtleMetrics works the other way around. The TurtleMetrics addon sits inside NinjaTrader and posts every closed trade to your journal seconds after you go flat. You don't open it. You don't trigger it. You don't choose when it runs.
The whole product depends on this. If syncing isn't automatic, the journal isn't a journal — it's a chore. Everything else in TurtleMetrics is built on top of trades that just appeared.
How it works
Import the addon into NinjaTrader
Download the TurtleMetricsSync zip, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On… and select the file. Restart NT.
Paste an API token
Generate a token in TurtleMetrics, paste it into the addon's settings panel inside NT. That's the entire authentication relationship.
Pick the accounts to monitor
In the addon settings, tick the NinjaTrader accounts you want synced — live, sim, prop firm, whichever. Anything you don't tick is ignored.
Trade like normal
The addon runs in the background. Every closed trade lands in TurtleMetrics within seconds of you going flat — no exports, no clicking "sync." You just trade.
What you don't have to do
No "Tools → Export → Account performance" dance after every session.
Times come from NT's database directly. No timezone reconciliation.
The week is already in the journal by the time Sunday arrives.
The Risk Tool indicator captures your real stop at entry.
For your existing trade history
First time you connect the addon, it pulls your most recent NT executions — about 60 days worth — and reconstructs them as flat-to-flat trades. Anything older isn't pulled in. From there, every closed trade lands in the journal automatically, so the dashboard already means something on day one.
Privacy & security
Nothing about the addon leaves your computer except the trades themselves. It sends trade details — symbol, side, time, price, quantity — to the TurtleMetrics API over HTTPS, and nothing else. NinjaTrader logins, broker credentials, and account balances are never read or transmitted. The API token can be regenerated or revoked from your account at any time.