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How to add multiple instruments into a NinjaTrader chart panel

One particularly useful feature in the NinjaTrader app is the ability to add multiple instruments to a single chart panel. This allows traders to simultaneously view and analyze the price action of different instruments, facilitating correlation studies, comparative analysis, or multi-asset strategies—all within a unified interface.

By combining multiple instruments in one chart panel, you can:

Compare price movements: Identify trends, divergences, or correlations between markets.

Overlay instruments: Visualize two or more instruments on the same price scale for direct comparison.

Enhance analysis: Use custom indicators across multiple instruments for deeper insights.

In the following steps, we’ll walk through how to add multiple instruments to a chart panel in NinjaTrader, ensuring you can maximize this functionality to enhance your trading workflow.

First you open your NinjaTrader app. Start with the RIGHT CLICK on the panel and go to DATA SERIES:

Once you’re in DATA SERIES, you should pick an instrument you’d like to add on the top of the little window (In our case BTCUSD)

Select the INSTRUMENT you’d like to add from the drop-down menu and you will see that it will show up as the NEW PANEL:

Click on APPLY and it will show up in your existing CHART PANEL, so you can follow two instruments at the same time and/or compare the prices in the real time.

You can customize the panels dimensions by clicking on the MIDDLE LINE that separates your two instruments and resize the one you want to:

And you can also create a single panel with multiple instruments in order to better gauge relative magnitude of the move

Start with RIGHT CLICK on the panel you want to add instrument on and go to DATA SERIES:

Then, just like before, select the instrument you’d like to add (ETHUSD in our case):

Then make sure you select the PANEL where you want to add the INSTRUMENT to:

Make sure to set SCALE JUSTIFICATION to OVERLAY:

Check if PANEL and SCALE JUSTIFICATION are set and click APPLY:

Then the CHART will appear in the SELECTED PANEL like this:

Updated on: 16/10/2025

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