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Smoke drifting behind a 1-minute NQ session, eight seconds into the loop.

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 Live Background

Name: DS Live Background
Brand: DS Universe
Availability: InStock

Your own video, looping behind the bars.

Your own MP4, MOV or animated GIF, or a still picture, playing behind every candle, line and drawing, looping without a seam and drawn at the exact pixel size of your chart.

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 is ready as soon as NinjaTrader restarts. See it on Whop

What you get

MP4, MOV, GIF or a still picture
Always under every candle and line
Clicks go straight to your chart
Rests when the chart is out of sight

Platform: NinjaTrader 8 · 8.1.8.1 or newer
Type: Indicator
Runs on: Any chart
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

NinjaTrader lets a chart show a still picture behind the bars, and nothing that moves. DS Live Background plays your own video there instead, so the screen you watch for hours is one you want to look at, while the candles stay the brightest thing on it.

Built in

A slow ocean, a city at night, rain on glass, your own brand loop: behind every candle, line and drawing, looping without a seam, and drawn at the exact pixel size of your chart, so it stays sharp at any window size.

01MP4, MOV, M4V or MKV, an animated GIF with its transparency, or a PNG, JPG or BMP still
02Eight settings: your file, play, speed, fit, opacity, backdrop, blur and a frame-rate limit
03Always the bottom layer — candles, drawings and grid lines stay on top, and clicks go straight through
04The Dark backdrop keeps the picture's own look on any chart background color

Before you buy

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

Where it runs

Markets

Any chart

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

Reads no market data, so it behaves the same on every instrument, bar type and timeframe.

What it reads

No market data, only the media file you choose.

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

Good to know

It rests when the chart is hidden, minimized or on a background tab, and eases its frame rate if a busy chart needs the room. Phone videos show upright, and sound never plays.

Free. Nothing to activate, and nothing tied to an account.

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 Live Background behave 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.

In motion

See DS Live Background run

Recording · 15 s

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Recording · 15 sA 1-minute NQ session with DS Live Background: slow grey smoke drifts behind the candles, which stay sharp and on top.

The recording and chart pictures above show the software running; they are 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.