Automated strategy
Ningal
An automated strategy that trades Nasdaq 100 futures for you: one contract, one position at a time, flat before the close.
Net result: +$123,600 on one contract
- Profit factor
- 1.19
- Win rate
- 53.8%
- Strongest month
- +$19,388
Simulated, one contract, June 2023 to July 2026
21 July to 14 October 2026: +$1,934 in 55 sessions. Not a clean out-of-sample test: these sessions were used to choose this book's rules.
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- Your licence key and the Ningal add-on for NinjaTrader 8
- Updates, loaded by the add-on itself
- Every month: the month's measured result by email
Before you subscribe
- Runs month to month. Cancel any time. It ends at the end of the paid month.
- Payment by card or Klarna through Stripe.
- Not for sale to residents of the United States.
- Your licence key and the Ningal add-on for NinjaTrader 8 come straight after payment, on the page and by email.
- Secure payment via Stripe, by card or Klarna.
- After payment you get a receipt from Stripe, and your key and add-on by email. That email repeats these terms and your confirmations.
- A fault in the strategy? You can always complain.
Results
Simulated on historical data, after costs. How these are measured
What one contract did, June 2023 to July 2026
- Profit factor1.19Gains over losses, after costs
- Win rate53.8%Of 1,254 trades
- Strongest month+$19,388January 2026
- Sortino ratio1.90Daily, over a year
All the numbers, the record and after it
Net result, one contract+$123,600+24,720 ticks, June 2023 to July 2026
- Sessions
- 751
- Trades
- 1,254
- Win rate
- 53.8%
- Profit factor
- 1.19
- Sortino ratio
- 1.90
- Worst drawdown
- $28,3505,670 ticks, 6 February to 1 May 2025
- Trades a month
- 35.1
- Average trade
- +$99
- Strongest month
- +$19,388January 2026
- Weakest month
- −$13,692June 2026
- Losing months
- 14 of 37
After the record, one contract+$1,934+387 ticks, 21 July to 14 October 2026
Not a clean out-of-sample test: these sessions were used to choose this book's rules.
- Sessions
- 55
- Trades
- 91
- Win rate
- 47.3%
- Profit factor
- 1.03
- Sortino ratio
- 0.34
- Worst drawdown
- $17,6843,537 ticks, 8 September to 14 October 2026
- Trades a month
- 34.7
- Average trade
- +$21
Ningal trades for you: one contract, one position at a time, flat before the close. You get it as a NinjaTrader 8 strategy.
- Market
- Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ)
- Session
- Before and during the US day; flat before the close
- Rules in the book
- Three
- Trades a month
- About 35
- Holding time
- Minutes to several hours
- Data
- NQ one-minute bars
Details
What you getYour licence key and the Ningal add-on, straight after payment
You get all this when you subscribe to Ningal.
- Your licence key and the Ningal add-on for NinjaTrader 8
- Updates, loaded by the add-on itself
- Every month: the month's measured result by email
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Step 1: Subscribe
Pay monthly by card or Klarna. Cancel any month.
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Step 2: Get
Your licence key and the add-on are on the page after payment and in your email.
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Step 3: Run
Import the add-on into NinjaTrader 8, enter your key, set your limits and switch it on. It trades by itself.
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Step 4: Every month
Updates reach the add-on by themselves. The month's measured result comes by email.
What you needNinjaTrader 8, its data feed and an account for one NQ contract
Check that you have this before you subscribe.
- A data package with CME equity index futures L1, for NQ one-minute bars
- NinjaTrader 8 on a computer that stays on and online while it trades
- A futures account that can trade one NQ contract, such as a funded prop-firm account
- Your own hard limits on position size and daily loss, set in NinjaTrader
In short: NinjaTrader 8 with a connected data feed and a futures account (or Sim101 to practise).
This book reads NQ only.
New to NinjaTrader? Before you start, in our setup guide, says how to get each of these, in plain words.
QuestionsTwelve short answers, from getting it to cancelling
How do I get the strategy?
Straight after payment you get your licence key and the Ningal add-on for NinjaTrader 8, on the page and by email. The add-on loads the strategy when NinjaTrader starts.
Does it tell me its rules?
No. The strategy is proprietary: it runs its rules by itself and does not show what they are or why. This page tells you the market, the session, how many rules it holds, about how often it trades and how long it holds.
Do I follow it by hand?
No. You switch it on in your own NinjaTrader 8, on your own account, and it places and closes its trades itself: one contract, one position at a time, flat before the close.
Can it run on a funded prop-firm account?
It trades one contract, one position at a time, and closes its position itself before the close, so it never holds a position overnight. Check your firm's own rules before you start.
What data does it need?
NQ one-minute bars in NinjaTrader 8. Your data package must include CME equity index futures L1.
What does the add-on send to you?
Its licence key, a machine id, and its own name and version, when it starts and once a day. After each trading day, the trades it took that day: times, long or short, contracts, fill prices and the result in ticks, so we can measure it as it runs for real and help you. Never your account's name, balance or login, and never a trade it did not take itself. Our server answers whether the licence is valid and sends the strategy's current version, never instructions to trade and never settings.
On how many computers can I run it?
On two of your computers. A new computer takes a free place while there is one. To move it to another computer, email us.
What if my computer is offline when it starts?
Then it does not trade and tries again every five minutes. It trades from the moment our server answers that your licence is valid. An answer it saved earlier never turns trading on.
Are the results from live trading?
They are simulated on historical data, with every trade charged its cost. The terms of sale say exactly how they are measured.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is general information and software. Everyone gets the same strategy, and you decide for yourself whether and how to use it.
How do I cancel?
Any time, in Manage subscription at the bottom of every page, or by email to us. The subscription ends at the end of the month you have paid for, and the add-on stops then. No new payment is taken.
Can I withdraw?
You have 14 days to withdraw, unless you asked us to deliver straight away and confirmed that you then lose the right. Use the form at Withdraw from contract, at the bottom of every page. The details are in our terms of sale.
Another question? Email us at support@chaldealabs.com. All about subscribing, cancelling and withdrawing is in the terms of sale.
Automated strategy
Ningal
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