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DS MACD · Momentum & Trend

Chart pictures are illustrations of the software, not a performance record. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor, and hypothetical or simulated results have inherent limitations that may differ materially from live trading. Risk disclosures.

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DS MACD

Name: DS MACD
Brand: DS Universe
Availability: InStock

Know the cross price before it prints.

A MACD panel rebuilt on the volatility-normalized MACD-V scale, with the price that will cross the signal line solved in closed form before the bar even closes.

PriceFreePermanently · Not a trial · Nothing stripped out

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Free checkout on Whop, then download and import. There is no license to switch on: it draws as soon as NinjaTrader restarts. See it on Whop

What you get

Cross price solved before it happens
MACD-V gives it real fixed zones
Six-state momentum ribbon
Divergence with a full lifecycle

Platform: NinjaTrader 8 · 8.1.8.1 or newer
Type: Indicator
Runs on: Any market NinjaTrader charts
Built on: NQ · MNQ
License: Free, permanently · no license needed

Its own download, free permanently. It is not part of DS Complete: it runs beside it. Everything in the Free Vault

Why you need it

A standard MACD tells you a cross happened only after the bar that made it closes — a beat too late to act on cleanly, and read on a scale that means something different on every instrument. DS MACD solves the price that will cross the signal line before the bar closes, reads on the same volatility-normalized MACD-V scale on every chart, and grades every divergence through a full lifecycle instead of leaving you to eyeball whether it is still valid.

What makes the panel itself different

The close that crosses the signal line is worked out in closed form from the prior bar — exact on the Classic and PPO scales, within one bar's change in ATR on the default MACD-V scale — and shown as a rail on your price chart, a header chip and a panel target.

01MACD-V scale by default — real fixed zones on every instrument, not a self-rescaling axis
02A six-state ribbon: RISK, RALLYING, RETRACING, RANGING, REBOUNDING, REVERSING
03Four early layers — histogram slope-flip, pre-cross alarm, zero-line cross, ranging suppression
04Divergence with a PENDING → CONFIRMED / BROKEN / EXPIRED lifecycle, not a static mark

Before you buy

What it needs, where it runs, and what it is not.

Where it runs

MarketsBuilt on NQ · MNQ

Any market NinjaTrader charts

Futures — runs on it
Stocks — runs on it
Forex — runs on it
Crypto — runs on it

Reads price only. Its default MACD-V scale is volatility-normalized, so its zones sit at the same values on every instrument.

What it reads

Price only (closed bars). No volume, no tick data.

NinjaTrader 8 · 8.1.8.1 or newer. Everything runs on your machine, on your own data feed.

Good to know

The panel's Y-axis locks, so a chart drag can never push the reading off its own scale.

Closed-bar decisions throughout — it does not repaint.

Free — add it to a chart and the cross price is there.

DS Universe tools are charting and research software for educational and informational purposes. They are not investment advice and no output is a forecast or a guarantee of any result. Trading futures and other leveraged instruments carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor.

Test it on your own charts first.

Four screenshots and a paragraph are not enough to judge an indicator on. Watch it work in your own instrument, on your own timeframe, before it goes anywhere near a live account. Both ways of doing that are free.

Get NinjaTrader free About the simulator

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Replay a session you have already seen
Market Replay runs a past session back tick by tick, at whatever speed you like. You get to watch DS MACD print in conditions you remember, and pause on the bars where it mattered.
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Then trade it forward, on the simulator
Replay shows you the past with the ending already known. The simulator does not — it runs live, in real time, on real prices, with nothing at stake. That is where you find out whether you can actually act on what you are seeing.

A simulated fill is not a live fill. Replay and the simulator cannot reproduce real queue position, slippage, or what it feels like to hold a position with money on it, and results from either may differ materially from live trading. Test to learn how a tool behaves — not to estimate what it might return.

See it work

DS MACD, moment by moment

The conditions DS MACD is built for, drawn by its shipped rules. Scroll and scale it like a chart, replay it bar by bar, jump between its moments, or switch the chart to light.

DS Replay examples are illustrative: each scenario is composed for the example from recorded one-minute futures candles, to show the conditions a tool is built for, and is not a recording of a trading session. The tool drawing on it runs its shipped rules unchanged. They show how the software reads price; they are not a performance record, no trade is taken or shown, and live markets often behave differently. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor, and hypothetical or simulated results have inherent limitations that may differ materially from live trading. Risk disclosures.