Winkler Trading Station

What it does

The station shows what happens behind the price: which contracts were executed at which price level against which side. The tools for that are footprint per price level, volume profile, stats, delta, M effort, big trades and speed of tape.

Around that sits the usual trading workspace: POC, value area, VWAP, daily and previous-day levels, order book, time and sales, drawing tools, dynamic zones, an economic calendar with alerts, sounds, saved profiles and templates, six colour palettes and the AI analysis. Timeframes are typed in freely, from second bars through minutes and hours to range bars in ticks.

On top of that come a dashboard of its own (connections, accounts, order route and the day's balance at a glance; it opens after sign-in), a heatmap window with a rolling VWAP, a classification of tape flow into sweep, stop run, iceberg, absorption and initiative, five strategy engines (value area, entry zones, CVD divergence, effort model, initial balance) and help with a wiki and a support channel.

Then there is the "Analytics" window: one market day by day, in daily candles or in the 4h, 1h, 15m and 5m timeframes, each day with its market and volume profile, from TradingView's public market data feed. Key levels, news markers, GEX and large option trades from Cboe can be added, and an AI analysis runs on a click. The station fetches from that feed only after you have consented; the window depends on the "AI Analytics" unlock, which the provider grants per account. The AI analysis of the window also runs by itself on request and after your own consent, and its levels can raise alerts when the price comes close to them or touches them. More in the "Analytics window" tab.

In the Strategie Builder you put together rules of your own from indicators, Analytics data and AI evaluations; what comes out is alerts only, never orders. It opens as a window of its own, only from the "Builder" button in the dashboard. The station evaluates a strategy with its alerts on every second, every five seconds under heavy load, also while the builder is closed — as long as the station runs and the account is signed in to it; the alerts appear as a message in the dashboard, in the chart windows and in the builder, with a sound once the station's sound is switched on (Setup › Sounds, off out of the box), and on the phone if you want, while the station's page is open there. When prices come from the simulator, the builder does not evaluate the market data. A guide in a window of its own (Builder Guide) explains it, and on a click the AI Creator drafts a strategy with Claude from the existing blocks, which you check and take over yourself. Among them are blocks for ZigZag swings, order book, heatmap and footprint, and "Paper trade" follows a virtual position and only reports it – this block, too, places no order. Eleven templates ("WTS strategies") come with it as teaching material; what loads is only a copy with its alerts off, which you check and switch on yourself. With "Share Signals" a strategy that is switched on draws in chart and heatmap, since 1.9.108, lines next to its markers – the entry, stop and targets of its paper position and the values of its "Chart level" blocks; these lines stay on your own machine, never on the phone and never in a picture to an AI. Whatever you take from them into an alert stays an alert. The Analytics and AI blocks and the AI Creator depend on the AI Analytics unlock; the AI Creator also needs your own Claude CLI. Since 1.9.111 the station, on request, syncs the strategies through the hub between your own machines (strategy sync, off by default, only for an account with the "Abgleich" (sync) right and only on machines where you switch it on yourself); whether a strategy's alerts are on you decide on each machine yourself — sync never switches alerts on. Blocks, limits and the bundled templates are described in the "Strategie Builder" tab.

Markets and data sources

NQ, ES, GC, 6E and CL stream from start. Every further catalogue entry is loaded on click: 20 futures roots in four groups — US minis (NQ, ES, YM, RTY), US micros (MNQ, MES, MYM, M2K, MGC, MCL, M6E, SIL), metals, energy and FX (GC, SI, CL, 6E) and EUREX (FDAX, FDXM, FDXS, FESX) — plus ten crypto pairs (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, LTC, AVAX).

Source	Connection	Delivers	Orders
NinjaTrader 8	dedicated add-on, TCP	level 1, level 2, every tape print, history	yes
MetaTrader 5	dedicated expert advisor	prices and depth	yes
ATAS	dedicated add-on	prices and depth	yes
Bookmap	network interface	resting liquidity	no
Binance	public interface, no key, only after consent	crypto prints and quote	no
Fair Economy	public calendar (Forex Factory), only after consent	economic calendar	no
TradingView	public feed, no account, only after consent, only with the "AI Analytics" unlock	candles for the "Analytics" window and the Strategie Builder blocks that use the window's data (Analytics blocks and AI blocks with "Analytics levels")	no
Cboe	public option chain, delayed by about 15 minutes, only after consent, only with the "AI Analytics" unlock	GEX and big option trades in the "Analytics" window (ES, NQ, RTY, YM and their micros)	no
Wikipedia	public page "Portal:Current events", only after consent, only with the "AI Analytics" unlock	news markers in the "Analytics" window	no
White House	public feed "Presidential Actions", only after consent, only with the "AI Analytics" unlock	news markers in the "Analytics" window	no
Simulator	built in	synthetic history to try things out	paper trading

With no broker attached, the built-in simulator starts after a few seconds with three days of synthetic history; the feed badge then visibly reads SIMULATION.

Trading

The station keeps two separate routes. Paper trading works against an account inside the server and touches no broker; it computes the entry bracket of stop, target, trail and break-even itself. Real-money trading forwards orders to the attached broker.

Two gates stand in front of the real-money route. The first is the right to real-money trading: the provider unlocks it per account, the station takes it from the licence server at sign-in and checks it again once a minute — a withdrawn right takes effect within a minute. The second is explicit arming per account, which expires on its own after a quiet period, lapses on every account change and, since 1.9.107, also when the Windows clock is set back by more than has passed since arming or the last live order. So the clock is best set while flat, and the account armed again afterwards. Added to that are server-side emergency limits on order size, position size and orders per minute, a log of every order and safeguard decision, and a PANIC button that is deliberately exempt from the gates — in an emergency nothing may block.

Where the station cannot classify an account as a simulation beyond doubt, it treats it as a real-money account; a platform's demo account may therefore be handled like a real-money one.

Architecture

The NinjaTrader 8 add-on is written in C# and sends prints and order book over a TCP bridge to a Python server based on FastAPI. The server aggregates bars, footprint, profiles, delta and statistics and delivers the result over REST and over a websocket to a canvas interface. The websocket frame rate is configurable; out of the box it is sixty frames per second. SQLite holds templates, alerts, sessions, the strategies and paper books of the Strategie Builder, the log of AI calls, the order history and the log of order and safeguard decisions.

The station ships as a program of its own with an installer. An end user needs neither Python nor a configured browser. Sign-in runs through the provider's licence server (hub); one account entitles the holder to use it on one machine. If the licence server fails, you can sign in offline for up to three days after the last sign-in, but then without the right to real-money trading and without the other unlocks; they return as soon as the licence server answers again, the phone tunnel only with the next sign-in. A running session keeps a right already granted for at most three days after the licence server's last answer. Sign-in cannot be switched off in the installed station.

Connections to the outside: to the licence server for sign-in (including the question whether the account may use the phone tunnel), the update check, the list of what's new, the rights check once a minute (it also carries the AI Analytics unlock and the "Abgleich" (sync) right), the support chat and — only when switched on — the phone tunnel and strategy sync; to Binance and Fair Economy each only after consent and only for a signed-in account, likewise to TradingView, Cboe, Wikipedia and the White House, these only with the "AI Analytics" unlock; to the AI provider on a click or, only after your own consent, by itself (auto mode of "AI analysis", AI blocks of the Strategie Builder); with the AI Creator, on a click, through the Claude CLI to Anthropic. What is transmitted is set out in the privacy statement for the software (/docs/wts-datenschutz.pdf).

Data quality

• Live, the aggressor is determined exactly because every print arrives with the standing quote. In the history the quote is absent and is reconstructed with the tick rule: a good reproduction, but not a perfect one.
• The tick history covers nine days out of the box and can be set to twenty. It is additionally capped at a maximum number of prints per contract. Where it does not reach, one-minute bars fill the rest. Those bars carry no order flow — no footprint, no delta, only price and volume — and are drawn dimmed in the chart.
• Timeframes below one minute and range charts are never built from minute bars.
• The server binds to 127.0.0.1 by default, pages are served under a policy without external sources, and a token can be enforced for all /api routes and the websocket. Only phone access, when switched on, additionally listens on the local network.
• The preconfigured provider for the AI analysis is a cloud model. Prompt, and with AI Scan and Ai Quick the picture of the chart too, therefore leave the machine — to the AI provider, not to the provider of the station; a local model is possible and has to be selected deliberately.

Version

The shipped version is 1.9.112. The pictures of the Strategie Builder and the "Analytics" window — under "New in the station" and at the front of the gallery — show version 1.9.109 (taken on 19 October 2026): the three of the Strategie Builder with values from a staged price feed instead of the market (not from the station's built-in simulator, which the builder does not evaluate), the AI Creator one also with a canned rather than a real answer, those of the "Analytics" window with real but delayed TradingView candles. The other screenshots on this page — the header picture, the close-up and the older gallery pictures — show 1.9.39 (5 September 2026); everything added since is listed in full under WTS Updates. Figures and test count: version 1.9.39, the test suite then comprised 2577 automated tests (counted on 6 September 2026). Data sources and connections to the outside: as of 23 October 2026. The figures above come from a measurement run of its own; when it ran and under which conditions is set out in the disclosure below them.