Who is ConnectQ for?
People with modest accounts who want proof before they risk money, and who are tired of paying upfront for someone else's confidence. It is not for anyone trading money they cannot afford to lose — futures are high-risk and the risk disclosure is not boilerplate. We never suggest trading bigger.
What is ConnectQ, in one sentence?
A strategy-building platform for futures traders: you compose a setup from signal blocks, prove it on data it never saw, and run only the proven version on NinjaTrader through a cloud-configured strategy.
Do I need to code?
No, and you do not need to start from a blank canvas either. Creating a setup asks you to describe the idea in a form shaped like a sentence — only look for trades when this holds, then take it when that fires, get in this way, risk it like so, get out on these — and builds the setup from your answers, then reads it back to you in plain English before you keep it. Underneath, a setup is a pipeline of typed blocks with nested AND/OR conditions, which you can rearrange on a canvas whenever you want to.
I have a setup that works. How do I try a variation without breaking it?
Duplicate it. The copy carries the rules, trigger, entry, risk, exits, test months and your notes; it does not carry the original’s verdict, its past runs or its chart deployment. A copy starts unproven and has to earn its own stamp, so a variation can never quietly inherit a pass mark it was never tested for. The original is untouched, and you can duplicate a setup that is live on a chart — which is the point.
Which platform and markets are supported?
NinjaTrader 8 on Windows for execution; the designer and engine run in the browser. NQ futures at launch, other CME index futures as their datasets are curated.
What does the verdict mean?
Every run is split into training months and holdout months the setup never influenced. VALIDATED means the holdout replicated the training behavior on enough trades that the edge is distinguishable from noise; WEAK means it partially did, or the sample is too small to tell; REJECTED means it did not. Reasons are written out with each stamp, together with the confidence band the verdict was judged on.
Can I test an idea without saving it?
Yes. Prove-it runs your unsaved edits as a draft. Nothing is recorded until you save, so the gallery only ever shows verdicts for setups as saved.
Does the backtest see every tick?
Decisions are made on three-minute bars; fills are resolved on NinjaTrader's own ticks, read through NinjaTrader's own API. Before a day's ticks may price a single trade they have to rebuild that day's bars exactly — ten of the first seventy failed that check and were thrown out rather than patched. Where ambiguity still remains it resolves against the trade: if a stop and a target could both have printed inside one bar the stop is assumed; a fill-bar target counts only if the close confirms it; limit orders need a one-tick penetration and never fill on the signal bar; at-close exits fill a tick later in reality.
Why don't you show performance numbers on this site?
Backtested and simulated results have inherent limitations, and a number on a marketing page cannot tell you how a setup would behave on your account. Inside the platform every run shows complete statistics with its verdict, on data you can inspect.
Does the Bridge trade anything I build?
Yes — it interprets the setup you built rather than a subset of it: the same blocks, the same nested gate tree, the same trigger and entry. What differs between blocks is how much reconciliation against NinjaTrader sits behind each one. Every block’s decisions are compared against the Bridge’s own per-bar diary, and the last run disagreed on nothing. Fill-level reconciliation — trade by trade, to the dollar — has so far been completed on the fair-value-gap path; the signals added most recently have a probe and no playback yet, and we say so rather than letting one word cover both.
How is trading enabled?
Only from the server, for an approved machine and a setup deployed to a specific chart slot. The strategy has no parameter that arms trading, and a global kill switch disarms every client within one poll.
Is ConnectQ a signal service or a managed account?
No. ConnectQ is software that tests and executes your own rules — or, with Prime, our published rule set — on your account under your control. We do not provide investment advice or manage money.
How does pricing work?
Per use: proof runs and live sessions are metered; Prime has a separate seat fee. Exact numbers go to the waitlist before they appear here. One hundred platform users at launch.
What happens to my strategy if I leave?
Your setups are yours. Export the definitions at any time; the Bridge stops arming when its configuration expires.