How to Connect Lucid Trading to NinjaTrader (Tradovate)

Your Tradovate credentials are in the Lucid dashboard and in your account email. Copy and paste them from there — Lucid specifically warns against retyping, and typos here are the commonest cause of a failed first connection.

Make sure you have the current version of NinjaTrader Desktop, installed from your NinjaTrader Account Dashboard. If you do not have a NinjaTrader username and cannot sign in to the dashboard, NinjaTrader documents how to download NinjaTrader Desktop without a NinjaTrader Brokerage account. You do not need to pay for a licence to trade a prop account.

Go to trader.tradovate.com and log in with your Lucid credentials. Complete the CME subscriber certification once as Non-Professional, choose the Tradovate Prop Simulation environment, and confirm your account number before placing any order.

Lucid requires this even if you only ever intend to trade in NinjaTrader. Until it is done the account is not live on Tradovate's servers and NinjaTrader will refuse perfectly correct credentials.

A. If you do not already have a NinjaTrader account. Launch NinjaTrader Desktop and enter your Lucid Trading Tradovate username and password on the first login screen. You are connected straight away and your accounts appear under Control Center > Accounts — nothing else on this page applies to you.

B. If you already have a NinjaTrader account. Log in with your NinjaTrader dashboard username and password instead — not your Lucid Trading credentials — then carry on below to add Lucid Trading as a second connection.

Multi-Provider lets NinjaTrader hold more than one account type at once, and it is off by default on new installs. In the Control Center go to Tools > Settings > General, tick Multi-provider, and click OK.

Restart the platform. The Configure button then appears on the Control Center > Connections menu — if you cannot see Configure, this step has not taken effect.

Select Configure on the Connections tab. In the Available list, double-click NinjaTrader — this is the connection type that carries Tradovate prop accounts — or select it and click Add. It moves into Configured, and its properties open on the right.

Paste your Lucid-issued Tradovate username and password. Set Account Type: Simulation. This is correct for funded accounts as well as evaluations — a prop account is a simulated account as far as the platform is concerned, and the firm settles the money on its own books. "Live" means a NinjaTrader Brokerage account and will not find yours. Name the connection Lucid and click OK. If the account list looks incomplete on a first-time setup, restart NinjaTrader once — it settles after a restart.

Finally, go to Control Center > Connections and pick the connection you just created. A green indicator at the bottom left means you are connected, and your Lucid Trading account appears under the Accounts tab within a few seconds.