Automated NinjaTrader 8 Strategies

Two lines, nine strategies. Four Standard strategies that read price and structure, four Order Flow strategies that confirm entries with actual buying and selling pressure, and one Lifetime strategy you own outright. Run any of them on any of the six micro futures — your license covers the code, not a single instrument.

Standard
TurnKeyORB

Bidirectional opening-range breakout.

Standard
TurnKeyORBFade

Counter-trend fade of opening-range breakouts.

Standard
TurnKeyGapFade

Overnight gap fade / mean reversion.

Order Flow
TurnKeyORBOF

OR breakout confirmed by order flow.

Order Flow
TurnKeyORBFadeOF

Order-flow failed-breakout fade.

Order Flow
TurnKeyGapFadeOF

Gap fade confirmed by order flow.

Order Flow
TurnKeyImbalanceDefender

The reversal play — order-flow zone defense.

Lifetime
TurnKeyRetest

Full retest-and-hold continuation. Own it once.

For current performance numbers, see the Results page, or drive the live data yourself in the Prop Firm Analyzer Demo.

Standard Line

TurnKeyORB

Type: Opening Range Breakout — bidirectional

Defines the opening range over a configurable window, then enters in the direction of a decisive close past either side. One strategy file handles both long and short — toggle either direction off per template if you want to run a long-only or short-only setup. A confirmation-bars filter rejects single-bar pokes that get sold (or bought) right back.

Disabled-direction breakouts don't burn the day's entry quota, so a long-only template stays patient through a fake-down move while still waiting for the real upside break.

Status: Available now — Starter or Elite.

TurnKeyORBFade

Type: Opening Range Fade — counter-trend

Same opening range detection as TurnKeyORB, but the entry direction is inverted. Upside break → I enter short. Downside break → I enter long. The thesis: most opening-range breakouts don't go anywhere — they poke past the boundary, attract some momentum buyers, then drift back. ORBFade is built to be on the other side of that.

Trend-alignment filters are stripped from this one by design — they would block the exact trades the strategy is built to take. Default stop and target sizing uses ATR (Average True Range) so the strategy adapts to current volatility automatically. Runs naturally as a pair with TurnKeyORB on the same instrument — one wins when the breakout extends, the other wins when it fades.

Status: Available now — Starter or Elite.

TurnKeyGapFade

Type: Gap fade / mean reversion

Measures the overnight gap between yesterday's session close and today's regular-session open at the first RTH bar, then watches for the first bar that closes back inside the gap — that's the entry trigger. Up gap → short entry. Down gap → long entry. A configurable size filter skips days where the gap is too small to be worth fading or too wide to fill in the session window.

There's a profit-room check before any entry fires: if price has already drifted most of the way toward target, the setup passes and the day waits for something cleaner. No multi-bar confirmation either — gap fades close fast or they don't, and waiting multiple bars eats into the available reward room.

Pairs naturally with my News Calendar indicator — when a major news event lands inside the gap window the strategy skips the day automatically rather than fading a news-driven move.

Status: Available now — Starter or Elite.

Order Flow Line

The same families of setups through a different lens. The Order Flow strategies read actual buying and selling pressure — bid-ask footprint imbalances and cumulative delta — to confirm entries, not just where the candle closed.

Requires an order-flow / volumetric data feed — without one, these strategies take no trades by design. Self-tune (no templates). Available now as Order Flow Starter or Order Flow Elite.

TurnKeyORBOF

Type: Order-flow opening-range breakout

On the first retest of the opening-range boundary, it rides the break only when order flow confirms it — breakthroughs are overwhelming the level and cumulative delta keeps pushing in the break direction. The order-flow layer is what separates a real breakout from a fakeout.

Status: Available now — Order Flow Starter or Elite.

TurnKeyORBFadeOF

Type: Order-flow failed-breakout fade

A bar close beyond the opening-range boundary arms the zone; on the retest, if order flow shows the breakout failing — defenders stack at the boundary and cumulative delta turns against the break — it fades back into the range. Built to be on the other side of the fakeouts that ORBOF avoids.

Status: Available now — Order Flow Starter or Elite.

TurnKeyGapFadeOF

Type: Order-flow gap fade

The overnight gap fade, gated by order flow. It fades the gap only when the flow confirms exhaustion at the fade point — footprint defenders step in and cumulative delta turns back toward the gap fill. Filters out the gaps that keep running instead of filling.

Status: Available now — Order Flow Starter or Elite.

TurnKeyImbalanceDefender

Looking for a reversal strategy? This is it — my order-flow reversal play.

Type: Order-flow zone-defense reversal

Trades with institutional money at zones that are being actively defended. It scans the volumetric footprint for stacked imbalances, clusters them into support and resistance zones, then takes a reversal when price reaches a zone and the flow confirms a defense — a cumulative-delta shift in the trade direction and fresh defenders outnumbering breakthroughs.

Status: Available now — Order Flow Starter or Elite.

Lifetime

TurnKeyRetest

Type: Opening-range retest — one-time lifetime license

The patient one. It waits for the morning breakout that comes all the way back, retests the level it broke, holds it, and resumes — the highest-conviction continuation setup there is. Rare by design: most days it never sets up. When it does, it fires, with the stop pinned just behind the retested level.

Status: Available now — $149 one-time, lifetime. See Pricing.

Features Across All Strategies

Adjust Live, Mid-Trade

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.

Multiple Stop & Target Modes

Pick what works best for the instrument and regime: Fixed Ticks, Range Percent, or ATR. Stop, target, and trail each have their own mode setting — combine them however suits your style.

Stack the Suite — One Instrument, Two Strategies

TurnKeyORB and TurnKeyORBFade are built to coexist on the same instrument. Breakout extends and follows through → ORB rides it. Breakout fakes and the range holds → ORBFade catches the return. You're on the right side of the move either way; the wrong side gives back a small stop and waits for tomorrow. Instance-isolated signal names keep the order routing clean — the two strategies don't fight each other.

Configurable Opening Range

The OR-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.

Built-In Prop Firm Safety

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.

Cross-Instrument Use

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.

Want to See How These Perform?

The Results page has the backtest numbers, and the Prop Firm Analyzer Demo on the My Setup page lets you drive the live data yourself — add and remove configs, change contract sizes, and see what hits prop firm targets.

See the Results