Stay In Winning Trades Longer With Precision Atr Tracking For Total Exit Confidence.
Your Entries Aren't the Problem. Your Trade Exits Are.
Most traders don't fail because they can't find a good setup. They fail because their trade management relies on rigid, arbitrary stop losses that ignore actual market conditions.
You find the perfect entry. The market moves in your favor. But you either place a static stop too tight and get wicked out by minor volatility, or you leave it too wide and watch a beautiful winner turn completely into a loser.
The Devil's Friend Indicator solves this exact issue. It uses dynamic, volatility-adjusted ATR (Average True Range) logic to actively trail your price action. It doesn't rely on arbitrary tick sizes; it calculates precisely how much "breathing room" the current market structure demands. As the trend pushes forward, your stop naturally climbs up the chart to lock in your profits.
When you manage your trades based on pure mathematical volatility instead of fear and greed, you ride the big runners to the absolute end—and cut the losing reversals instantly.
You're Choking Your Winners.
We Let The Math Dictate The Exit.
Retail traders guess where to place their stops based on emotion. Professional algorithms trail stops based on true market volatility. It's time to upgrade your management.
Arbitrary Static Stops
Placing a stop 10 ticks away just because it's your "rule" completely ignores the asset's current volatility. You end up getting stopped out on perfectly normal price fluctuations, right before the massive breakout happens.
Watching Profits Vanish
There is nothing more psychologically damaging than watching a trade go deep into profit, freezing because you don't know when to exit, and then watching a sudden reversal stop you out for a loss.
Volatility-Adjusted Trailing
By calculating the Average True Range in real-time, our trailing stop perfectly maps the asset's breathing room. It locks in gains progressively, ensuring you never give back your hard-earned profits to a sudden reversal.
Watch It Lock In Profit In Real-Time.
Raw Output: Institutional Volatility Tracking Keeping You In The Trade Longer.
The Architecture Of The Indicator
Everything you need to automate your trade management and eliminate emotional early exits.
Lock In Running Profits
The dynamic trailing system calculates true market volatility and updates your baseline constantly, so you automatically secure your gains as the trend advances, preventing winning trades from turning red.
Filter Out The Noise
Switch from standard ATR to our proprietary double-smoothed "TDU ATR" calculation, so you can ignore false, insignificant price wicks and stay positioned during high-noise intraday volatility.
Read The Momentum
Receive unmistakable visual Buy and Sell signals printed directly on your chart the moment the algorithm detects a structural trend shift, allowing you to act with supreme confidence and zero hesitation.
Automate Your Exits
Output precise trend signals and ATR plots directly into Bloodhound and Blackbird strategy builders, empowering your automated systems to manage trailing stops flawlessly without human intervention.
Protect Your Profits Automatically.
Stop micromanaging your active positions. The Devil's Friend automatically renders a mathematically precise trailing line behind your trade based on true volatility, ensuring you never exit too early out of fear, or stay in too long out of greed.
- Adapt instantly to changing market volatility conditions.
- Eliminate the stress of manual stop-loss adjustments.
- Ride massive structural trends to their mathematical conclusion.
Ignore The Retail Fakeouts.
Standard trailing stops get chopped to pieces in modern markets. Switch to our exclusive TDU ATR setting that utilizes double smoothing logic, creating a highly stable trailing barrier that perfectly filters out minor price jumps designed to hunt retail stops.
- Toggle between traditional NinjaTrader ATR and TDU ATR.
- Maintain position stability during sudden intraday chop.
- Customize your multiplier logic specifically for day trading.
Execute Without Hesitation.
Stop second-guessing your entries when the trend flips. The indicator projects distinct, aggressive Buy and Sell signals directly onto your price action, giving you the exact visual confirmation you need to pull the trigger the second momentum turns in your favor.
- Identify major trend reversals instantly.
- Enable optional "fill bands" for rapid visual trend reading.
- Simplify your chart without losing professional fidelity.
Automate The Exit Strategy.
Built natively for algorithmic execution. This tool fully integrates with Bloodhound and Blackbird by exporting hyper-accurate data plots, allowing your automated systems to read exactly where the optimal trailing stop should be and execute flawlessly.
- Read Trend Signals directly into strategy builders.
- Link Blackbird to the precise ATR output value.
- Remove manual emotion entirely from the trade cycle.
Never Miss A Reversal.
Stop burning your retinas staring at the screen for an exit cue. Configure precise, distinct audio alerts for trend changes, so you can monitor multiple charts and only interact when the algorithm detects a critical momentum shift.
- Walk away from the monitors with total peace of mind.
- Receive instant notification the millisecond a stop level is breached.
- Focus your energy on execution, not micro-monitoring.
The Nerd Vault
Precision ATR-based trailing stop calculation that expands and contracts strictly with market action.
Easily switch between the standard NinjaTrader ATR math or the highly smoothed proprietary TDU ATR.
Render clear Buy/Sell signal markers and optional shaded fill bands to distinctly separate bullish and bearish zones.
Fully functional on Futures, Forex, and Stocks across any selected timeframe.
Customizable audio notifications triggered upon any defined trend change or crossover event.
Natively built for zero-lag integration with NinjaTrader 8, Bloodhound, and Blackbird automated platforms.
For advanced quantitative traders, this indicator exports raw plot data directly into memory, ready to be digested by NinjaScript strategies or Bloodhound logic trees.
- Trend Signal Plot: Outputs a boolean integer (+1 or -1) detailing the current dominant trend direction.
- Trailing Value Output: Exposes the exact Y-axis value of the trailing stop line on a bar-by-bar basis for headless order management.
- Buy/Sell State: Emits signals precisely when the ATR volatility bounds are breached by closing price action.
- 26-oct-2022 (v1.0.0.4) - Fixed saving settings to template protocol.
- 02-oct-2022 (v1.0.0.3) - Added option to fill bands, added discrete buy/sell signals, and exposed the trend signal plot to external builders.
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