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📊 HUD-Head Up Display Indicator  or Strategy  EMA Trend HUD Suite (Indicator + Strategy)

🔍 Overview

The EMA Trend HUD is a lightweight, real-time information toolset for NinjaTrader 8, designed to give traders essential market insights directly on the chart — without clutter, lag, or unnecessary distractions. It comes in two parts:

  • HUD_EMA Trend (Indicator)

  • EMA Trend Account HUD (Strategy)

Both tools display dynamic on-screen information based on a customizable EMA, helping traders visually interpret market bias, price positioning, and key account metrics with zero latency.


HUD-Head Up Display Indicator /Strategy

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📌 HUD EMA Trend (Indicator)

This overlay indicator provides a quick-glance panel showing:

  • 🟢 Instrument name and interval

  • Real-time clock (updated per tick, including seconds)

  • 📅 Today’s date

  • 📈 Trend direction based on price vs. EMA

  • 📍 Current EMA value

  • 📏 Distance between price and EMA

The panel color changes based on trend bias:

  • Green when price is above EMA (Bullish)

  • Red when price is below EMA (Bearish)

It’s designed to be fully customizable, with options to:

  • Set the EMA period

  • Choose the position of the HUD on the chart (top/bottom, left/right)

  • Disable appearance in the Data Box for a clean look

  • Automatically refresh every tick, ensuring you always see the most current trend context.


📌 EMA Trend Account HUD (Strategy)

This non-trading strategy is a companion tool to the indicator. It doesn’t execute any trades but adds additional insights by leveraging your account data, including:

  • 👤 Account name

  • 💰 Current balance

  • 📊 Total PnL (realized + unrealized)

  • 🧭 Instrument name

  • 🕒 Live clock 

  • 📈 Trend direction

  • 📏 Price-to-EMA distance

It functions like a floating info dashboard that updates in real-time while monitoring your account performance without impacting live trading.


💡 Why Use This?

This HUD suite is perfect for:

  • Discretionary traders who want at-a-glance EMA trend info

  • Prop firm traders tracking their account performance on screen

  • Scalpers needing real-time visual cues without noise

  • Streamers and educators who want their charts to show key info visually for students or audiences


⚙️ Quick Settings

  • ✅ EMA period adjustable (default: 200)

  • ✅ Display position selectable (top-left, top-right, etc.)