Looking for a Meridian alternative? Your journal can come with your trading platform.
A behavioral risk tool that runs inside NinjaTrader 8, plus standalone apps in early access: it watches seven signals such as revenge trading and oversizing, and its Guard ends sessions or blocks orders at the limits you set.
NexTick360 is a different shape of product: a futures trading platform with the journal built in, so every trade is recorded from the account you traded it on. Below is where each fits, written so that someone who already uses Meridian would recognize it.
Meridian checked against meridianpsi.com on check theirs
Choose Meridian if
- You're staying on NinjaTrader 8: Meridian runs inside it
- You want enforcement that can disconnect you from your broker in NinjaTrader 8, or cut the connection at the firewall in its standalone apps
- You want a free tier: Core costs nothing
Choose NexTick360 if
- You want the guardrails, the coach and the journal inside the platform itself, not an add-on to another one
- You want a past trade reopened on your own chart with the order flow around it as it was, not on a generic chart
- You want your journal on the web and your phone as well as your PC
An add-on that guards another platform, or a platform with guardrails built in
Meridian and NexTick360 both act while you trade. Meridian does it from inside NinjaTrader 8 and is candid that it can't stop someone who trades from their phone. NexTick360 is the platform: your limits and your firm's rules sit in the HUD beside the chart, the coach speaks as habits show up, and every trade lands in a journal you can open anywhere.
What each one does.
Described rather than scored. Everything in the Meridian column comes from their own pages.
| Capability | Meridian | NexTick360 |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | A NinjaTrader 8 add-on, plus standalone apps for two brokers in early access | It is the platform: charts, footprint, DOM, chart trading and ATM brackets, on your own broker data |
| While the trade is open | Seven signals including revenge trading, stop-loss manipulation and oversizing; Guard can end the session before the evaluation's daily loss limit | The coach's live tips, your daily loss limit and your firm's rules in the HUD beside the chart, and guardrails that act the way you set them |
| Enforcement | Hard limits off by default; an order over the cap is cancelled at submission. Disconnect in NinjaTrader 8, a firewall cut in the standalone apps | Guardrails that act only as you set them; an order over your maximum size is refused on the trade panel and DOM |
| Journal | Mood chips and a monthly digest, with 5 years of local history | Every trade recorded as it fills, reopened on your own chart, and in the web journal on any screen |
| Charts | Not a charting product, in their words | It is the platform: charts, footprint, DOM, chart trading and ATM brackets, on your own broker data |
| AI | Adaptive learning; no AI assistant described | Nic, an AI coach that asks about your trades from their facts, on monthly credits. It never sees your market data and never places an order |
Every Meridian detail above was taken from meridianpsi.com on . Prices and features change; confirm anything that matters on their site. We are not affiliated with Meridian. Tell us if something is out of date.
What each one costs.
Meridian
- Core
- $0
- Guard
- $29.99 / month
On NinjaTrader 8, the first 7 days of a free license include Guard, no card. Guard is billed monthly, no annual plan. A full refund if Meridian won't run on a supported NinjaTrader 8 setup and they can't fix it.
NexTick360: the platform and its journal
- Free · journal: The last 30 days
- $0
- Trader · journal: All your history, with the platform
- $49 / month
- Order Flow · journal: All your history, with the platform
- $89 / month
14 days of Order Flow free, no card. Less when paid yearly. Pricing
Bringing your history with you.
Meridian and NexTick360 do different jobs on different platforms, so there's nothing to carry across: NexTick360 records your trades from the first one you take on it.
A journal that comes with the platform you trade on.
See the journal. Founders get 25% off the yearly price for as long as they stay. No card, no spam.