Tune and Trade · NinjaTrader 8 and MetaTrader 5
TnT Apex is a rules-based strategy for MetaTrader 5. It runs on your own chart, on your own account, and decides for itself — gold, the Nasdaq, oil and the major currency pairs. It takes profit in stages, locks a trade once it is far enough ahead, and shows you its working on every trade. It arrives with trading switched OFF. Whether to switch it on, on which market, at what size, is your decision — and so is the result.
Read this first. I do not ask or recommend anyone to copy my trades. Futures are leveraged, most people who trade them lose money, and you can lose more than you deposit. Nothing here is financial advice. Read the risk disclosure and terms before you subscribe.
Part one
What it is, how the rule works, what you can change, and what it does not. The step-by-step setup is in part two, the setup guide.
1 · What we sell
Both run on your own chart, on your own account, and decide for themselves. Nothing is copied from anybody, and nothing trades until you switch it on.
For NinjaTrader 8. Trades the micro futures contracts: Nasdaq, S&P, Gold and Crude. It finds the prices a market has actually turned at and trades what happens when price comes back to one.
For MetaTrader 5. Trades gold, the Nasdaq, oil and the major currency pairs through any broker. One moving average decides the side; the money is made in how the position is taken off.
One key covers both — one NinjaTrader account and one MetaTrader account, at no extra cost. Most people start with one and try the other later. The two sections below explain each market properly, because buying something you do not understand is how people lose money whatever the software does.
2 · Futures, on NinjaTrader 8
A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a set price on a set date. It began with real goods — a farmer fixing the price of wheat months before harvest, so neither side is ruined by the weather. Most contracts today are settled in cash and nobody delivers anything, but the shape is the same.
What matters for trading them is this: futures are exchange-traded. Every contract is identical, every price is public, and your order goes to the same central market as everyone else's. There is no broker taking the other side of your trade, and the price you see is the price everybody sees.
The contracts come in two sizes. The mini is the original. The micro is exactly one tenth of it — same market, same price, same hours, a tenth of the money per point. The micros exist because the minis are too big for most people, and they are what our strategy trades.
The tech index. The fastest of the four and the one with the clearest sessions: the American open is a different market from the overnight hours. $2 a point. Moves 200–400 points on an ordinary day.
The broad American market. Slower and smoother than the Nasdaq, and the one most people find easiest to read. $5 a point, but it moves far fewer points — the two work out similar.
Trends hard and holds a direction for hours, which suits a rules-based strategy. Reacts to interest rates and the dollar rather than to company news. $10 a point.
The most news-driven of the four, and the one that spikes through levels rather than respecting them. $100 a point, so it moves in small decimals — 0.30 is thirty dollars.
They trade nearly 23 hours a day, so a stop you place is a stop that holds — price does not gap over it overnight the way a share can. Commissions are low and known in advance. And the leverage is built into the contract rather than borrowed, so there is no margin call in the way most people imagine one.
What that cuts both ways on: a micro Nasdaq contract controls about $40,000 of index for a few hundred dollars of margin. Small moves are large money. That is the whole attraction and the whole danger.
A swing high is a bar whose high beats the bars either side of it; a swing low is the mirror. Those are the prices the market actually turned at, which is all “support and resistance” ever means.
When price comes back to one and closes off it, the level held — that is the signal. You can also run it the other way, trading the close that goes through a level, because a level that fails is information too. Which of the two is a button on the panel.
There is a build for each contract: MNQ, MGC, MES and MCL. You run the one for the market you trade.
3 · CFDs, on MetaTrader 5
A contract for difference is an agreement between you and your broker to settle the difference in a price between opening and closing. You never own anything. If gold rises $10 while you are long, the broker pays you $10 per unit; if it falls, you pay them.
That difference from futures matters and is worth understanding before you trade one:
There is no central exchange. The price is your broker's price, and the spread is how they are paid. A good broker's price tracks the underlying market closely; a poor one's does not. This is why which broker you pick matters far more here than in futures.
No fixed contract size. You can trade 0.01 lots or 5, which makes CFDs far more approachable than futures — you can risk ten dollars a trade and it still works properly.
Leverage caps, protections and whether you may trade CFDs at all depend where you live. Our broker page goes through the main ones, including the countries where this is not permitted.
The usual starting point. Trends hard, holds direction, and is cheap to trade at most brokers. The same metal as MGC above, just through a broker rather than an exchange.
EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY. The biggest market in the world by a wide margin, open 24 hours on weekdays, and the cheapest to trade. Slower than the rest, which means more trades and smaller ones.
The same indices as the futures above, as CFDs. Bigger ranges than forex and usually a wider spread. The American hours are where the movement is.
WTI and Brent crude, silver, natural gas. News-driven and prone to spikes, which is exactly what the staged targets are for.
Apple, Tesla and the rest, if your broker offers them. The one caution: shares gap overnight on earnings, and a stop only exists while the market is open. A $180 share can open at $171 and your stop fills there. Size for that or close before the bell.
One moving average. While price closes above it, be long; below it, be short; a close through it reverses. No second condition and nothing to wait for — and that is deliberate, because the entry is the least interesting part.
The result lives in the ladder: half the position closes at your first target, half of what is left at the second, and the remainder runs until price closes back through the average. The targets are in money, not points — forty dollars is forty dollars on gold and on EURUSD, where forty points is a different amount on each.
Once a trade is far enough ahead, a real stop goes in past your entry — far enough past to keep some profit rather than merely costing you nothing. From that moment the trade cannot lose. A trade that went a long way your way and came all the way back has given you nothing, and there was never a moment where you could not have kept some of it.
4 · What you get
Both strategies draw their own control panel on the chart. Everything is a button, and nothing needs the strategy stopped and restarted to change. The two panels differ only where the rules differ.
It arrives OFF. It places nothing until you say so.
Trade by hand whenever you want. The strategy still manages whatever you open — the targets and the stop apply either way.
Set the risk per trade in money. The lots are worked out from it.
Move the first, the second and the runner's ceiling while a trade is running, which is when you actually know what it is doing.
Off, on, or on and following price. Goes green the moment the trade can no longer lose.
A profit target and a loss limit for the session, both adjustable, both in money.
Everything it does, it says — in plain words, in the log. Which target was hit and for how much, why a trade was refused, what the stop is worth in your account's currency. There is nothing happening that you cannot read.
5 · Where to trade them
For futures: a broker or prop firm that NinjaTrader 8 connects to. The platform is free; the data and the commissions are not. Most futures brokers support it.
For CFDs: a broker offering MetaTrader 5. Most brokers quoting gold, indices and currency pairs have it, and the account is free to open. What varies is what matters most here: the spread, which decides how much of each trade the broker takes, and the regulator, which decides what happens to your money if something goes wrong.
It varies more between brokers than anything else, and gold is the market most people start on. The strategy refuses to open when a round trip would cost more than a third of what it is aiming for — a wide broker simply means fewer trades.
A locally regulated broker usually means lower leverage and better protection if the firm fails. An offshore one usually means the opposite. Which suits you is your decision, but it should be a decision.
Some brokers still lead with MetaTrader 4. This strategy is MT5 only — the two are not compatible, and an MT4 account cannot run it.
Which brokers work where › — what is available and what is allowed in Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, the Gulf, South Africa and elsewhere.
6 · What you can see
Every entry says what it saw. Every exit says which of the ways out ended the trade — the first target, the second, the runner's ceiling, the profit lock, or price closing back through the average. After a week you know which of those is doing the work, which is the only honest way to decide what to change.
Your entry, your stop and your targets drawn where they are, and the stop line moves as the lock follows price.
What the trade is worth now, what the day has made after costs, and what the stop would cost if it were hit. Not points — money.
Plain sentences, not codes. If it refuses to trade it tells you which of the reasons applies and what to do about it.
7 · What you need
Free, from your broker or from MetaQuotes. If you already trade CFDs you probably have it.
Live or demo. It runs unlicensed on a demo account by design, so you can watch it for as long as you like before paying for anything.
This is software that places real orders. Nobody at Tune and Trade watches your account, and nothing here is advice about what to trade or how much.
8 · Said plainly
It will not make you money reliably. It is a rule, and rules have losing days, losing weeks and losing months. The simple entry means it is wrong often; the ladder is what is meant to make that survivable. Whether it does on your market, at your settings, is something only your own record can answer.
It will not trade while your computer is off. It runs inside MetaTrader on your machine. No platform, no strategy.
It will not hide its costs. The day's figure is net of commission, because a number that flatters you is worse than no number — you act on it.
And it is not a signal service. You are not following anybody. The strategy decides on your chart, from your data, and every order is yours.
9 · Price
Both strategies, both platforms
$99 CAD / month
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10 · Questions
No. What you install is the strategy itself, deciding on your chart, for your own account — a statement of what I am doing. Nobody manages your account. The software is off until you switch it on, and every order it then places is yours.
I do not know, and anybody who promises that about any strategy is guessing or lying. It will hold the position my chart holds without getting bored, frightened or stubborn. Whether that makes money depends on the strategy, the market, your size and the delay. Most people who trade futures lose money.
Yes, and you should. Every broker offers a demo account — real prices, pretend money, open in minutes. The strategy runs unlicensed on a demo by design, so you do not even need the subscription to watch it. Give it a fortnight before you put real money near it.
You do not need to analyse charts or pick trades. You do need to understand what a futures position can cost you, how to set your size, and how to switch the software off and close a position. The setup guide covers all of it.
Yes. The SIZE button on the panel multiplies my position: at x2, my long 1 is your long 2. It never goes past the Most contracts limit you set, and it changes only between trades. Double the size is double the risk — try it on Sim first.
For different sizes on different accounts, follow into one and let TnT Accounts copy it to the rest at a ratio.
Technically yes, anywhere you can open an MT5 account. Whether you are allowed is a different question and depends where you live — some countries restrict or prohibit retail CFD and forex trading with offshore brokers, and a few prohibit it outright. Our broker page goes through the main ones. It is your responsibility to know the rules where you are, and we would rather lose a sale than have somebody find out afterwards.
Yes, with the platform open and connected. If it sleeps, the strategy stops seeing bars until it wakes. A desktop left running or a small Windows server both work.
Any time, from your billing page. Access continues to the end of the period you paid for.
11 · Risks and disclaimer
The position I publish is the position of a strategy on my own chart, for my own account, shared for information and education. I do not ask, advise, recommend or encourage anyone to run it. The strategy arrives with trading switched OFF and places nothing until you switch it on yourself. Every order it then places is your order, in your account, and every profit and loss is yours.
Not advice. Tune and Trade Inc makes software. It is not a registered adviser, portfolio manager, broker or dealer, and nothing it publishes is a recommendation to trade.
Substantial risk of loss. Futures are leveraged. Losses can be fast and can exceed your deposit. Most retail traders lose money. No results are promised, and this site shows none.
Technology fails, and that risk is yours. Your internet, your computer and power, MetaTrader, your broker and our licence server can all fail, lag or send the wrong thing without warning. Losses from any of these are your responsibility, and so is knowing what you hold and closing it when you need to.
So is knowing what you are doing. Losses from not understanding futures, the platform, the software or its settings — the wrong instrument, account, size or setting — are your responsibility.
No warranty. The software is provided as is. To the fullest extent the law allows, Tune and Trade is not liable for trading losses.