Drawing Kit Free ICT drawing tools for NinjaTrader 8
by FlowForged Analytics
Four ICT drawing tools on one chart pill: an Edge Rails rectangle, a standard-deviation projection, a Fibonacci retracement with the OTE band, and a breakeven trigger line. Press a button, click the chart, and the drawing is placed with your colors, levels and snap.
NinjaTrader 8Four tools, one pillSD and OTE levelsPer-drawing snapNative drawing objects
NQ, 5-minute, with three of the four tools placed by hand. An Edge Rails rectangle frames the late-morning range, with its rails and dashed midpoint. An OTE retracement and an SD projection share the swing between 30,857 and 30,929: the OTE shades the 62% to 79% band and stars 70.5%, and the projection runs up to -1, -2 and -2.5 with the -2 to -2.5 band shaded. The DRAW pill sits at the bottom left. Tap to enlarge.
An illustration, not a chart screenshot: the four tools as the code draws them, at their default colors, levels and opacity. The numbered dots mark your clicks. In order: an Edge Rails rectangle; an SD projection off a down leg, with -1, -2, -2.5 and -4 MAX projected up and the -2 to -2.5 band shaded; a retracement of an up leg with the 62% to 79% band shaded; and the dashed breakeven trigger line. Up legs take the bull color (steel cyan), the down leg the bear color (amber).
Quick info
Platform
NinjaTrader 8 on Windows
Concept
The ICT drawings, launched from one toolbar pill and placed with your saved defaults
Designed for
Traders who mark zones, SD projections and OTE retracements by hand
Best used when
You draw the same structures many times a session and want them to look the same every time
Tools
Edge Rails rectangle, SD projection, OTE retracement and breakeven trigger line
Data
Any chart. The tools read the chart’s bars only to snap your clicks
Access
Free download
What Drawing Kit does
Drawing Kit adds a DRAW pill to the chart toolbar. Each button starts one drawing tool: press it, click the chart, and the drawing is placed.
The rectangle, the projection and the retracement take two clicks. The breakeven line takes one. Each new rectangle, projection and retracement from the pill starts from the kit’s defaults: bull and bear colors, fill opacity, label size, snap mode and radius, and which lines and levels are shown.
Direction comes from your clicks. If the second click is above the first, the drawing takes the bull color; below it, the bear color. There is no direction setting to pick first. Once placed, each drawing is an ordinary NinjaTrader drawing object: drag its anchors, open its properties, and it is saved with the workspace.
Purpose
The ICT drawings are simple lines, but they come with specific level sets: 62, 70.5 and 79% on a retracement, negative multiples of a leg on a projection, a 50% line through a zone. Drawing Kit has those level sets built in, so each drawing comes out complete in two clicks.
Without Drawing KitTyping the ICT levels into a stock Fibonacci toolOne chart-wide magnet setting for every drawingBull and bear colors picked drawing by drawing
With Drawing KitThe ICT level sets built in, each level on its own switchSnap mode and radius carried by each drawingColor picked from the direction of your clicksFour tools on one pill, and in the Drawing Tools menu
Why choose it
One pill, four tools. ▭, SD, OTE and BE each start a drawing. The gear opens the defaults.
Direction from your clicks. Rectangles, projections and retracements take the bull or bear color from whether your second click is above or below the first.
Snap that lands on the candle. Each drawing carries its own snap mode (wicks, bodies or any of the four prices) and radius, separate from NinjaTrader’s own magnet.
Defaults you set once. Colors, opacity, label size, snap and level switches apply to every new rectangle, projection and retracement from the pill. Drawings already on the chart keep their own settings.
Native drawing objects. Drag the anchors, edit the properties, lock a drawing. It saves and reloads with the workspace.
Stays in reach. When the suite’s Master Switch hides the other FlowForged pills, the DRAW pill stays on the chart.
Works with FF AutoBE. The BE button places the line that the free FF AutoBE watches to move stops to breakeven.
The four tools
▭ Edge Rails rectangle, 2 clicks. One corner, then the opposite corner. A gradient fill that is strongest at the rails, solid top and bottom rails, a dashed midpoint line at the 50% level and thin vertical edges.
SD projection, 2 clicks. The leg’s origin, then its end. Lines at 0, 1, -1, -2, -2.5 and -4 times the leg, run forward past it, with the -2 to -2.5 band shaded and -4 drawn in red and labelled MAX.
OTE retracement, 2 clicks. The swing’s origin (100%), then its end (0%). Lines at 0, 50, 62, 70.5, 79 and 100%, with the 62 to 79% band shaded, 70.5% drawn heavier with a star, and 100% in red.
BE breakeven trigger, 1 click. A dashed goldenrod horizontal line with a price marker. On its own it is a line; with FF AutoBE on the chart, it is the price that moves your stops to breakeven.
Key capabilities
Edge Rails rectangle with the top rail, bottom rail, midpoint line and vertical edges each on their own switch
SD projection at 0, 1, -1, -1.5, -2, -2.5, -3 and -4, one switch per level (-1.5 and -3 off by default)
Shaded band between -2 and -2.5, which the settings call the Key Reaction Zone (KRZ)
Retracement at 0, 50, 62, 70.5, 79 and 100%, with the 62 to 79% OTE band shaded
Level labels at the right end of every projection and retracement line
Breakeven trigger line for the free FF AutoBE
Snap modes Off, Wicks, Bodies, OHLC and Auto, with a radius in pixels
Kit-wide defaults for new drawings, from the gear and the indicator settings
Every tool also listed in NinjaTrader’s Drawing Tools menu
How to set up Drawing Kit in NinjaTrader 8
Import the download into NinjaTrader 8.
Add FF DrawingKit from the Indicators window to your chart. The DRAW pill appears at the bottom left of the chart, with any other FlowForged pills.
Click the gear to set the default opacity, snap radius, label font size and snap mode. Colors and level switches are in the indicator’s settings.
Press ▭, SD, OTE or BE, then click the chart.
To change one drawing later, drag its anchors or open its properties.
New to NinjaTrader add-ons? The install guide covers importing, Tick Replay and common fixes.
Drawing Kit FAQ
Which drawings are in the kit?
Four: the Edge Rails rectangle, the standard-deviation projection, the OTE retracement and the breakeven trigger line. They are also in NinjaTrader’s Drawing Tools menu as FF Edge Rails Rectangle, FF SD Projection, FF Fib Extension OTE and FF Breakeven Trigger.
Are they normal NinjaTrader drawings?
Yes. Once placed, each is an ordinary NinjaTrader drawing object: drag its anchors, open its properties, and it is saved with the workspace.
How do I set bull or bear?
Your clicks decide. If the second click is above the first, the drawing takes the bull color; below it, the bear color.
Which levels does the SD projection draw?
0, 1, −1, −2, −2.5 and −4 times the leg, with the −2 to −2.5 band shaded and −4 drawn in red and labelled MAX.
Does it need a particular data feed?
No. It works on any chart and any data feed, and reads the chart’s bars only to snap your clicks.
Drawing Kit does not find setups or tell you where to draw. It runs on its own or next to the FlowForged suite, and it makes the drawings you already use quicker to place and the same every time:
Four ICT drawings on one pill
Your colors, levels and snap on every new drawing
Ordinary NinjaTrader drawings once placed
Drawing Kit is free
It comes in one download with all eight free FlowForged tools. Enter your email and we’ll send the NinjaTrader 8 link.
Futures trading involves substantial risk and is not for every investor. Chart examples show past market activity and are not indicative of future results. Drawing Kit is an analytical tool, not trading advice.
Every drawing from the kit uses the same few colors, lines and bands.
BULLBEAR
The color is the direction
Second click above the first: the bull color, steel cyan by default. Below it: the bear color, amber by default. The same rule on the rectangle, the projection and the retracement.
-2 to -2.562 to 79%
The shaded bands
The projection shades the band between -2 and -2.5. The retracement shades the band between 62% and 79%. Both take the drawing’s direction color.
-4 MAX100%
Red is the outer line
The projection’s -4 line and the retracement’s 100% line are red. The grey lines are the reference lines: 0 and 1 on the projection (the two ends of the leg), 0% and 50% on the retracement.
-2.570.5% ★
Labels name the level
Each projection and retracement line is labelled at its right end with its level, not its price. 70.5% carries a star, and 70.5% and 100% are in bold.
Edge Rails rectangle
Press ▭, click one corner, then click the opposite corner. The box is drawn in the Edge Rails style of the FlowForged zone indicators: a gradient fill that is strongest at the rails and faint in the middle, solid 2 px rails at the top and bottom, a dashed midpoint line at the 50% level, and thin vertical edges. The rails are drawn at 2.5× the fill opacity, the midpoint line at 1.4× and the edges at 0.6×.
In the Drawing Tools menu it is FF Edge Rails Rectangle. Its properties:
Visuals
Fill opacity (%)28
5 to 90. The base for the gradient; the rails and the midpoint line are drawn brighter from it.
Bull color / Bear colorsteel cyan / amber
Bull when the second corner is above the first, bear when it is below. Drag a corner across the other and the color follows.
Layers
Show top rail / Show bottom railOn / On
The solid lines along the top and bottom edges.
Show midpoint lineOn
The dashed line at the 50% level of the box.
Show vertical edgesOn
Thin lines at the left and right sides.
Snap
Snap mode / Snap radius (px)OHLC / 12
See Snap. On this tool Auto works the same as OHLC.
SD projection
Press SD, click the origin of the leg, then click its end. That leg is one unit. Level 0 sits on the origin and level 1 on the end. The negative levels are multiples of the leg on the other side of the origin, so a down leg projects up and an up leg projects down.
The lines start at the leg and run to the right, past its end by one and a half times the leg’s width (at least 80 pixels), with each level’s label at the right end. In the Drawing Tools menu it is FF SD Projection.
Level
Line
Default
0
Grey, 1 px
On
1
Grey, 1 px
On
-1
Direction color, 1.5 px
On
-1.5
Direction color, 1.5 px dashed
Off
-2
Direction color, 2 px
On
-2.5
Direction color, 2 px
On
-3
Direction color, 2 px dashed
Off
-4 MAX
Red, 2 px
On
The band between -2 and -2.5 is shaded while either of those two levels is shown.
Visuals
Bull color / Bear colorsteel cyan / amber
Bull when the leg’s end is above its origin (the levels project down), bear when it is below (the levels project up).
Neutral line colorgrey
Levels 0 and 1.
Max-expansion colorred
The -4 line.
Label color / Label font sizenear-white / 11
The level labels. Font size 8 to 20.
KRZ band opacity (%)22
0 to 100. A projection placed from the pill takes the kit’s Default fill opacity (%) instead, 28 by default.
Levels
Show 0 … Show -4per level
One switch per level, with the defaults in the table above. A level that is off is not drawn and has no label.
Press OTE, click the origin of the swing (100%), then click its end (0%). Levels are measured back from the end: 50% is halfway along the leg and 100% is the origin. If the end is above the origin the drawing takes the bull color; below it, the bear color.
The lines run from the leg to 50 pixels past it, with labels at the right end. In the Drawing Tools menu it is listed as FF Fib Extension OTE; it draws the retracement levels below.
Level
Line
Default
0%
Grey, 1 px
On
50%
Grey, 1 px dashed
On
62%
Direction color, 1.5 px
On
70.5% ★
Direction color, 2 px, bold label
On
79%
Direction color, 1.5 px
On
100%
Red, 1.5 px, bold label
On
The band between 62% and 79% is shaded while either of those two levels is shown.
Visuals
Bull color / Bear colorsteel cyan / amber
Bull when the end (0%) is above the origin (100%), bear when it is below.
Neutral line colorgrey
The 0% and 50% lines.
Inval (100%) colorred
The 100% line.
Label color / Label font sizenear-white / 11
The level labels. Font size 8 to 20.
OTE band opacity (%)22
0 to 100. A retracement placed from the pill takes the kit’s Default fill opacity (%) instead, 28 by default.
Press BE and click once at the price you want. The line is a dashed goldenrod horizontal line, 2 px, with a price marker on the axis. It is NinjaTrader’s own horizontal line underneath, so you drag and edit it the same way. In the Drawing Tools menu it is FF Breakeven Trigger.
On its own the line does nothing. With the free FF AutoBE on the same chart, Auto BE watches for lines of this type. With its default settings, when price trades to one, it moves the working stops on that instrument’s position to the average entry price and removes the line. An ordinary horizontal line is ignored. The trigger, offset and safety settings are covered on the Auto BE page.
FF AutoBE modifies live stop orders on your account. Test it in Sim first. While Drawing Kit is on the chart, Auto BE does not show its own pill: the BE button on DRAW places the line.
Snap
The rectangle, the projection and the retracement each carry their own snap mode and radius, and ignore NinjaTrader’s chart-wide magnet. On each click, and while you drag an anchor, the tool looks for the nearest candle price within the radius and moves the anchor there. If none is in range, the anchor stays where you clicked.
Snap mode
Offoption
The anchor lands exactly where you click.
Wicksoption
The high or the low.
Bodiesoption
The open or the close.
OHLCdefault
Whichever of the open, high, low and close is nearest.
Autooption
The same as OHLC on these three tools.
Snap radius (px)12
1 to 64 pixels. How far from the click a price can be and still catch the anchor.
The breakeven line has no snap setting of its own; it places like NinjaTrader’s horizontal line.
Kit settings
These are the FF DrawingKit indicator’s settings. They set what the next rectangle, projection or retracement from the pill starts with. Drawings already on the chart keep their own settings, and a drawing started from the Drawing Tools menu uses the tool’s own defaults.
0. Toolbar
Show toolbarOn
Shows the DRAW pill. Turned off, no pill is added; the tools stay in the Drawing Tools menu.
1. Defaults
Default bull colorsteel cyan
RGB 128, 188, 198. For new drawings whose second click is above the first.
Default bear coloramber
RGB 232, 152, 42. For new drawings whose second click is below the first.
Default fill opacity (%)28
5 to 90. The rectangle’s fill, and the shaded band on new projections and retracements.
Default snap modeOHLC
Off, Wicks, Bodies, OHLC or Auto.
Default snap radius (px)12
1 to 64.
Default label font size11
8 to 20. The level labels on projections and retracements.
2. Rectangle layers
Top rail / Bottom railOn / On
The solid rails.
Midpoint lineOn
The dashed 50% line.
Vertical edgesOn
The thin side lines.
3. SD levels
Show 0, 1, -1, -2, -2.5, -4On
One switch per level.
Show -1.5, Show -3Off
The two dashed levels.
Shade KRZ bandOn
The band between -2 and -2.5.
Show labelsOn
The level labels.
4. Fib levels
Show 0%, 50%, 62%, 70.5%, 79%, 100%On
One switch per level.
Shade OTE bandOn
The band between 62% and 79%.
Show labelsOn
The level labels.
The gear on the pill opens a quick panel for four of these: Default opacity, Snap radius (px), Label font size and Snap mode. Changes apply from the next drawing. Colors and level switches are set here, in the indicator’s settings.
Toolbar
One pill at the bottom left of the chart, stacked with any other FlowForged pills. The tool buttons are not on/off toggles: each one starts a drawing. There is no power button, since the kit draws nothing until you place a drawing, and the indicator adds no label to the chart.
DRAW▭SDOTEBE
As it sits on the chart. The tool buttons in amber, the gear in grey.
▭ places an Edge Rails rectangle: two clicks, opposite corners.
SD places a standard-deviation projection: two clicks, the leg’s origin then its end.
OTE places a retracement with the OTE band: two clicks, 100% then 0%.
BE places a breakeven trigger line: one click.
Gear opens the defaults panel: default opacity, snap radius, label font size and snap mode.
When the suite’s Master Switch hides the FlowForged pills, DRAW stays visible and drops to the lowest slot, so the tools stay in reach.
Requirements
Platform
NinjaTrader 8 on Windows. No Order Flow+ subscription required.
Data
Any chart and any data feed. The tools read the chart’s bars only to snap your clicks.
Install
Import the download, then add FF DrawingKit to a chart. The four tools are also in NinjaTrader’s Drawing Tools menu as FF Edge Rails Rectangle, FF SD Projection, FF Fib Extension OTE and FF Breakeven Trigger.
Breakeven
The BE line moves stops only with the free FF AutoBE running on the same chart.