An optimizer that works overnight, and a strategy that trades for you.
The system is kept deliberately simple: one instrument, one trade a day, a stop and target on every trade. What changes daily is the set of parameters, chosen fresh each night from a year of market history.
The nightly optimization
Runs after every regular session on a dedicated 16-core server with 192 GB of memory, and takes about two and a half hours.
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Load the data
A rolling one-year window of ES one-minute bars from the regular trading hours (RTH) session only, roughly 252 trading days.
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Test every combination
Over 504,000 mixes of profit target, stop loss and entry minute, each simulated trade by trade with slippage included.
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Filter hard
Only strategies with an equity curve R² of 0.97 or better and maximum drawdown under $3,000 are kept.
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Rank by tier
Survivors are sorted into Conservative, Moderate and Aggressive by drawdown, and the top ten in each are kept.
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Publish
The 30 strategies, their metrics, charts and daily PDF reports appear in Trade Assist the same evening.
The trade itself
TradeAssistES is a NinjaTrader 8 strategy for the E-mini S&P 500 contract. From the strategy's start time, it waits for a momentum break confirmed by the Parabolic SAR, takes one position long or short, and attaches its stop and target the moment it fills.
No new entries are taken after the cutoff, and any open position is closed before the session ends. If NinjaTrader restarts mid-trade, the strategy restores the stop and target on its own.
From Trade Assist to NinjaTrader
Click Trade Strategy
Your choice and its parameters are saved to your account.
Strategy pulls parameters
With Automatic Parameter Update on, TradeAssistES checks your selection every minute using your account email and shows it in the bottom-left corner of the chart. A change is applied while no trade is open.
Sim free, live verified
Sim and demo accounts always run. Live accounts are verified against your license.
Two ways to trade
Most traders follow the nightly strategies, but you can also trade a setting of your own choosing. Two switches in the strategy's settings on the chart decide which.
Follow Trade Assist
Automatic Parameter Update On, Use Default Settings Off. TradeAssistES trades the strategy you select in Trade Assist, with the profit target, stop loss and start time from the nightly optimization. Switch strategies or click Stop trading in Trade Assist at any time.
Trade a fixed setting
Turn Use Default Settings On (or Automatic Parameter Update Off) and type your own Profit Target, Stop Loss and Start Time into the strategy's settings. TradeAssistES then ignores your Trade Assist selection and trades those values every day until you change them.
Risk is managed in the rules
Every entry is bracketed. There is never an open position without a stop working.
A single attempt per day keeps losses from compounding through the session.
We suggest $5,000 per contract and adding contracts only as the account grows, up to 10 contracts per strategy so fills stay clean and slippage stays low.