DTR Pattern Scanner — NinjaTrader 8 Indicator
NinjaTrader 8 Indicator

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Every Quad Rotation setup, marked on your chart the moment it forms. Divergences with both stages joined, flags boxed, running legs outlined, and a recommended stop printed on each one. No hunting, no second-guessing — you see what the method sees.

6 setups identified
4 rotation bands
40 adjustable settings
QUAD ROTATION ZONE BEAR FLAG DIVERGENCE FLAG + DIV COMBO stop Every setup is marked as it forms — and the strongest one is called out in its own colour.
Illustration of the markers the indicator draws
What it is

It reads the chart the way the method does.

The Quad Rotation method is built on four stacked stochastics and the setups that form between them. Finding those setups by eye, across every bar of every session, is the part that wears people down.

The Pattern Scanner does that watching for you. It marks each setup as it completes, shows you the two stages it was built from, and prints where the stop belongs. What you do with it is still your call — it identifies, it doesn't trade.

How a divergence works

Two stages, and a disagreement.

Price makes a low. The oscillator makes a low with it. Later price makes a lower low — and the oscillator refuses to follow. That gap between them is the setup.

PRICE STOCHASTIC 9-3 or 40-4 STAGE 1 first low STAGE 2 LOWER low 20 under 20 HIGHER low — held above 20 the bounce turns up Price makes a lower low. The oscillator refuses to follow. That disagreement is the signal.
The same four-stage rule applies to both the 9-3 and 40-4 divergences
1

Stage 1

Price makes a new low while the oscillator is below 20. That anchors the setup.

2

The bounce

The oscillator crosses back above 20. The setup is now armed and watching.

3

Stage 2

Price makes a lower low — but the oscillator holds above 20 and never dips back under. If it does dip, the setup is void and starts over.

4

Confirmation

The oscillator turns up. Only now is the divergence marked, with its recommended stop.

Sell divergences are the exact mirror at the 80 line. Nothing is drawn until a setup completes every stage, which is why you will not see markers appearing and disappearing as bars form.

The setup library

Six setups, each marked in its own way.

Every one can be switched on or off independently, so your chart shows only what you actually trade.

Core

9-3 Divergence

The core setup. Two stages on the fast band, drawn as a line joining the stage that anchored it to the stage that confirmed it, with the full span highlighted.

New

40-4 Divergence (new)

The same two-stage rule read from the slower 40-4 band. Because it moves far more slowly, these span many more bars and carry more weight when they complete. Drawn in blue so it is never confused with a 9-3.

Core

Running Divergence

After a divergence completes, price often pushes to one more extreme while the oscillator flatly refuses to follow — and has to hold its line the entire leg. Outlined as its own box, on both the 9-3 and the 40-4.

Core

Bull & Bear Flags

A regime pinned at its extreme while the fast band rotates the opposite way on that same bar. One rotation, one signal, boxed where it formed.

Flagship

Flag + Divergence Combo

When a flag and a divergence land together, that is the strongest confluence the method produces. Called out in its own colour so you cannot miss it in a busy session.

Context

Quad Rotation Zones

Background shading for the periods when the rotation bands sit at their extremes — the conditions in which the other setups carry the most weight.

What a flag looks like

The box on its own doesn't explain why that pullback qualified, so both bands are shown underneath it.

PRICE 60-10 regime 9-3 trigger BEAR FLAG 20 pinned oversold — the trend 80 rotates up into 80 on this bar The trend is down and the fast band has rotated up into its trigger. That pullback is the flag.
Bear flag — the regime pinned oversold while the fast band rotates up into its trigger

What a running divergence looks like

Price keeps making lower lows while the 9-3 makes higher ones and refuses to drop back under its line. The first two lows are the divergence itself; the third is the running leg.

PRICE 9-3 STOCHASTIC 1 2 3 three LOWER lows 20 1 2 3 three HIGHER lows holds above 20 from here on parent divergence running leg Price keeps making lower lows. The 9-3 makes higher ones and never drops back under 20.
Three lower lows on price against three higher lows on the 9-3

And the combo

Two independent setups agreeing on the same few bars. Marked in its own colour because it is the one you least want to miss.

PRICE 9-3 divergence flag FLAG + DIVERGENCE COMBO 20 80 flag trigger Two independent setups agreeing on the same few bars. The strongest confluence the method produces.
Flag and divergence landing together
The four bands

When all four agree.

The 9-3, 14-3, 40-4 and 60-10 each read a different slice of momentum. Most of the time they disagree. When they don't, that's worth knowing about.

9-3 20 14-3 20 40-4 20 60-10 20 ALL FOUR UNDER 20 a quad rotation event The rarest condition the method looks for, and the one the strongest setups are built on.
Quad rotation — all four bands past the same extreme at once

A stop printed on every setup

Each divergence is marked with a recommended stop, placed a set number of ticks beyond the extreme that formed it — the same reference the Nexus strategy stops against. You can change the distance, the font size, or switch it off entirely.

Feeds the QR Pro Scanner

Every completed setup can be reported to the DTR scanner dashboard as it happens, so you can watch several instruments without a chart open for each one. Optional, and off for running divergences by default.

Control

40 settings. Nothing hardcoded.

Every threshold that decides whether a setup counts is a parameter you set from NinjaTrader's own properties panel. No code, no recompiling.

Divergence
8
  • Quad-only mode
  • Steep override + thresholds
  • Combo window and lookback
  • Trace logging
40-4 Divergence
2
  • On/off switch
  • Its own age-out limit
Running Divergence
3
  • On/off switch
  • Max bars per leg
  • Scanner reporting
Flags
4
  • 9-3 up and down triggers
  • 60-10 overbought and oversold
Quad Rotation Zones
9
  • Zone levels and colours
  • Brightness
  • Which panels to shade
Recommended Stop
3
  • Show or hide
  • Distance in ticks
  • Font size
Session Times
5
  • Signal window on/off
  • Start and cutoff, Eastern
Display
3
  • Divergence lines
  • Candle highlighting
  • Flag boxes
History
2
  • Backfill on load
  • How many bars to draw

Every setting, with what it does and when to change it, is covered in the manual.

Before you buy

What you need

NinjaTrader 8

Windows only. The free version is enough — you do not need a funded account to run the indicator on live or simulated data.

Any instrument

Futures, stocks, forex, crypto. It reads the bands on whatever chart you put it on. Built and tuned on index futures.

One licence key

Delivered by email after purchase. Paste it into the indicator's License Key field once and it is remembered.

Installation

Four steps, about two minutes.

1

Import it

In NinjaTrader's Control Center: Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On, and choose the .zip exactly as you downloaded it. Do not unzip it first.

2

Restart NinjaTrader

An add-on that is already loaded keeps running the old code until you restart. This is the step people skip.

3

Add it to a chart

Right-click your chart → Indicators → DTR Pattern Scanner.

4

Paste your key

Into the License Key field at the top of the settings. That's it.

Included

The full user manual

Every setup explained stage by stage, all 40 settings with what they do and when to change them, recommended starting configurations, and a troubleshooting section built from real support questions.

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Before you ask

Questions traders actually ask

Does it place trades?

No. The Pattern Scanner identifies setups and draws them — nothing more. If you want the setups traded automatically, that's RockBot Nexus, which uses the same detection code.

Do I need RockBot Nexus as well?

No. The indicator works on its own, and plenty of traders use it to take these setups by hand. If you already own Nexus, the indicator is included in that bundle and unlocks with the same key.

Will it repaint?

No marker is drawn until its setup has completed every stage on a closed bar. You will not see signals appear and then vanish.

What instruments does it work on?

Anything NinjaTrader charts. The thresholds were tuned on index futures, and you may want to adjust them for a very different instrument — every one is a setting.

My chart is blank in the evening.

By default it only marks signals between midnight and 3:30 PM Eastern. If you trade the evening session, untick Use Signal Time Filter in the settings.

Is it guaranteed to make money?

No — see the disclosure below. It is an identification tool. A setup is a shift in the odds, not a certainty, and what you do with one is still a trading decision.

Risk Disclosure: Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. The DTR Pattern Scanner is an analysis and identification tool — it does not place trades, does not guarantee profit, and past performance, backtested or live, is not indicative of future results. Test thoroughly in a simulated environment before committing real capital. You are solely responsible for your own trading decisions and risk management.
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