Six independent strategies, each built around a specific market behavior. Buy any one and run it on any futures contract — your license covers the code, not a single instrument. Quarterly param templates cover all six instruments (MES, MGC, MCL, M2K, MNQ, SIL) on 1-minute and 5-minute timeframes.
For current performance numbers, head to the My Setup page — the analyzer there is loaded with the live backtest data for my active configs. Drive it yourself.
Type: Gap fade / mean reversion
Fires when the market opens with a gap from yesterday's close, then watches for confirmation that the gap is going to fill. Optional delta and volume filters confirm sellers (or buyers, on a downside gap) are actually pressing — not just drifting back. Built-in chop filter keeps it from firing during low-volatility consolidation.
Best on: MES — built and validated there.
Type: Opening Range Breakout — long
Defines the opening range over a configurable window, then enters long on a break above the range high. Optional Order Flow+ filter requires meaningful positive delta change over an N-bar lookback to confirm real buying pressure — filters out thin breakouts that get sold immediately.
Best on: MES, MNQ, M2K — index breakouts have the cleanest follow-through.
Type: Opening Range Breakout — short
Mirror logic to ORBLongV2 for breaks below the opening range low. Tends to be tuned with tighter delta thresholds on the short side because downside flushes usually print bigger absolute deltas than upside breakouts — panic selling moves more contracts than FOMO buying.
Best on: MES, MNQ, M2K. Tends to extend further than the long side.
Type: Opening Range Fade
Takes the opposite side of the breakout when the move into the range edge shows exhaustion. Range expansion checks and entry-time cutoffs (no entries past mid-session) keep it from fading legitimate trend days.
Best on: MGC and SIL — commodities where trend persistence is weaker and fades hit higher.
Type: Pullback continuation
After a confirmed opening range breakout, waits for a retracement back toward the range edge before entering in the breakout direction. Skips the noisy breakout bar and catches the second leg of a trend day from a defined risk level. Built-in chop filter avoids firing in sideways low-volatility conditions.
Best on: MES long.
Type: High-volume pivot reversal
Enters reversal trades at high-volume price levels — Point of Control, prior-day high/low, VWAP touches. Looks for confluence: price tagging a volume node and showing rejection signs (delta divergence, range exhaustion). Targets the first pullback after the reversal confirms.
Best on: All six instruments. Cleanest on MES and MNQ during regular trading hours.
Drag stop losses and profit targets live in Chart Trader while a trade is open. The strategies play nicely with manual adjustments — recent updates handle user-drag tightening so your changes stick without the strategy fighting you.
Pick what works best for the instrument and regime: Fixed Ticks (a set tick distance) or Range Percent (a percentage of the opening range). Stop, target, and trail each have their own mode setting — combine them however suits your style.
Every strategy works fully without NinjaTrader Order Flow+. The Order Flow filters (delta confirmation, VP-near-POC, etc.) are added confirmation layers — turn them on if you have the data feed, leave them off if you don't. The base entry logic doesn't depend on them.
The ORB-based strategies don't lock you to any single window — start time and length are both adjustable. Tune it shorter or longer to match your bias and the instrument's volatility profile.
IsExitOnSessionCloseStrategy = false (no surprise late-session orders). Last-entry cutoff and force-exit times are both adjustable — defaults are set conservatively for prop firm rules (last entry 14:45 ET, force exit 15:00 ET) and you can dial them tighter or looser to match your firm's specific cutoffs. 1-tick slippage assumption baked into all backtests.
Each strategy is the .cs code, not a per-instrument license. Once you own a strategy, you can run it on whichever of the six micro futures contracts you want — and switch between them as markets change.
The Prop Firm Analyzer on the My Setup page loads the current backtest data for these strategies across my active instruments. Add and remove configs, change contract sizes, and see what hits prop firm targets.
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