Earn2Trade and NinjaTrader over Rithmic: what changed in June 2026

If your Earn2Trade evaluation used to reach NinjaTrader over Rithmic and that connection has stopped working, nothing is wrong with your setup: the route was retired. Earn2Trade moved NinjaTrader access onto the NinjaTrader–Tradovate unified API, and the legacy NinjaTrader–Rithmic connections were switched off at the end of June 2026.

The same change explains the other way people arrive here: you buy a new evaluation, pick Rithmic because that is what you used last time, and find it no longer comes with NinjaTrader. Rithmic is still on Earn2Trade’s selector; it simply no longer carries NinjaTrader.

This page used to be a step-by-step guide to that Rithmic route, and it has been rewritten around the migration. Earn2Trade’s own terms govern your account, so confirm anything account-specific with the firm before you act on it.

What changed, and when

Earn2Trade put the effective date in an update box added to its Tradovate-to-NinjaTrader connection article on 4 June 2026: “Effective June 2, 2026, new NinjaTrader access will only be available via the NinjaTrader–Tradovate unified API, not the legacy Rithmic connection.” A second help article, dated 5 June 2026, says the same from the platform side: NinjaTrader remains a free platform option at Earn2Trade, now reached through the unified API rather than the legacy Rithmic connection.

Existing connections were honoured up to 30 June 2026, and the cutoff wording is blunt: “By June 30th, accounts will be terminated.” If your connection went quiet some time after that date, this is why, and no change of settings in NinjaTrader will bring it back.

Earn2Trade also answers the obvious follow-up — whether Rithmic can still be paired with NinjaTrader on a new subscription — in its own words: “Yes, but only if you have your own personal NinjaTrader license that has a Rithmic integration. Earn2Trade will cease providing licenses for NinjaTrader with a Rithmic data option.” Ask Earn2Trade what that means for your subscription before you buy.

What to do now

On a new evaluation, choose the NinjaTrader option at checkout. On Earn2Trade’s pricing pages it sits under the heading “Choose Your Market Data, Platform & Account” as three buttons: Rithmic, labelled “Finamark, R Trader Pro”; BlackArrow; and NinjaTrader, labelled “Tradovate, TradingView”. Nothing is preselected, and the order summary records whichever you pick as the “Data Feed Provider”.

Expect a mismatch in the wording. Earn2Trade’s own blog and help article tell you to select the “NinjaTrader–Tradovate” option, and no button carries that label; the one you want reads plain “NinjaTrader”. Pick Rithmic by mistake and you are on the Finamark and R | Trader path, with no free NinjaTrader license from Earn2Trade attached to it.

The rest is the Tradovate flow, and our Earn2Trade Tradovate guide covers it step by step. Four things are worth knowing before you start. Accept the agreements and sign the documents in your Earn2Trade account first, or the firm says you will not be able to connect your account. In NinjaTrader, the connection entry that carries these accounts is named “NinjaTrader”, not “Tradovate” — Tradovate now sits under NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC, which is why the unified connection carries the NinjaTrader name. Earn2Trade names your credentials email two different ways, so search your inbox for both “Tradovate Data Credentials” and “Tradovate Data Credentials Created”. And the account type is not the same at both stages: Earn2Trade tells you to pick simulated during the evaluation, and on a funded Live account to select “Live Trading”.

One cost note, because the migration moved it. For traders whose CME status is professional, Earn2Trade’s newer fee article, dated 3 June 2026, prices evaluation data at $156 per month per exchange if you plan to use NinjaTrader, against $140 otherwise. Non-professional evaluation data is covered by Earn2Trade.

One Earn2Trade page that will send you the wrong way

Earn2Trade’s November 2024 blog post on accessing NinjaTrader is still published and still turns up in search, and it still tells readers to enable Multi-Provider Mode and configure the Rithmic connection. That was the legacy flow. Follow it today and you will be building the connection Earn2Trade retired on 30 June 2026.

Rithmic has not gone away at Earn2Trade

This is the distinction most readers get wrong, in both directions. Rithmic was not dropped by Earn2Trade; it was dropped from the NinjaTrader path. The firm’s 15 June 2026 announcement puts it plainly: Rithmic itself is not going away and remains a selectable data feed for platforms other than NinjaTrader.

It is still issued as an evaluation feed, with its own Rithmic exchange agreements to accept and the “Rithmic Paper Trading-Chicago Area-Non-Aggregated” server; that setup article was restamped in July 2026, after the migration, and mentions NinjaTrader nowhere. It still feeds R | Trader and R | Trader Pro and the platforms Earn2Trade publishes Rithmic connection guides for — nine of them, including Finamark, MultiCharts, Bookmap, ATAS and Quantower. It also remains a funded live-account feed. One trap there quietly ends evaluations: a Rithmic evaluation issues two accounts, and the practice one is the account with “sim” in its ID. Only trades in the evaluation account count.

If you are already funded

Earn2Trade publishes a single article on funded NinjaTrader access, and its machine-readable timestamp shows it has not been updated since 23 January 2026, five months before the migration. It names no data feed anywhere, so nothing in it is contradicted by the June change — but read it as what Earn2Trade instructs, not as guidance rewritten for the new route.

What it says: the live account is created by the prop firm team and your live credentials come from them, so evaluation credentials do not roll over; you need NinjaTrader Desktop, those credentials and an active market data subscription; and after logging in you select “Live Trading”. The old leader–follower arrangement has not been used for years. The 15 June 2026 blog adds one thing about the changeover itself: traders who passed an evaluation on the legacy NinjaTrader–Rithmic connection before the cutoff were funded on the new unified API. Earn2Trade publishes no blanket statement covering every funded NinjaTrader account, so take the rest as the plain reading of the dates — after 30 June 2026 the legacy connection no longer exists.

That account type surprises readers of our other Tradovate guides, where funded prop accounts are usually simulated. Earn2Trade is a genuine exception, and the reason is structural: on this path a funded Live account is a real account at a registered futures commission merchant, NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC. That is also why the exchange entitlements are billed at real rates. Professional market data is off by default and must be paid in advance through the prop firm team, at $156 per month per exchange on the NinjaTrader path against $140 on Rithmic, and CME does not prorate, so a mid-month start costs the full month.

One contradiction to pre-empt. A 2021 Earn2Trade post, updated in 2023, says you still need a paid NinjaTrader license for a live account and that the prop firms do not provide free ones; the January 2026 help article says a separate paid license is not required when access is provided through the prop firm. Both pages are still published. Ask the prop firm team which applies to your account before you buy anything, and follow whatever credentials and mode they specify if their instructions differ from any of the above. If you are placed on a LiveSim® account rather than a Live one, Earn2Trade publishes nothing about NinjaTrader there, so ask them what to use.

Related

• Earn2Trade discount codes and current promo
• Connect Earn2Trade to NinjaTrader (Tradovate) — the current route, start to finish.
• NinjaTrader Tradovate connection guide — the platform-side walkthrough that applies to every Tradovate-backed firm.
• Prop firm connection guides — the same treatment for the other firms we cover.

Affordable Indicators, Inc. is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rithmic, NinjaTrader, or any prop firm or broker named here; your firm’s and broker’s own terms govern how you may use your account, so check with them first.