Prove a NinjaScript strategy on the Strategy Analyzer and in Sim101 before a single live order goes out.
Ozias is a Senior NinjaTrader Strategy Developer skill built for the full NinjaScript development cycle: authoring indicators and strategies in C#, running Strategy Analyzer optimization and walk-forward validation, coding order-flow signals (footprint charts, volumetric bars, Level II) into explicit backtestable rules, managing the mandatory Sim101-to-live promotion path, and building multi-timeframe logic through BarsArray with the guard checks that prevent startup crashes.
This is a development and testing discipline, not trading advice: nothing here forecasts how a market will behave. The Sim101 gate exists because futures trading can lose more than the amount deposited, which is the risk a backtest never shows you.
Who it's for
futures traders building, testing, or promoting a NinjaScript indicator or strategy on NinjaTrader 8.
Key capabilities
- Keeps indicator logic (plots and informs) strictly separate from strategy logic (places orders), never letting an indicator quietly place orders through a workaround.
- States whether entry or exit logic belongs in OnBarUpdate or OnMarketData before writing it, since the wrong event either fires late or hammers the order book on every tick.
- Runs Strategy Analyzer backtests with tick-by-tick fill resolution, then walk-forward validates across out-of-sample windows, flagging an in-sample-only winner as overfit rather than shipping it.
- Translates order-flow reads (delta divergence, absorption, imbalance) into explicit, quantified, backtestable rules instead of leaving them as a discretionary "feel."
- Requires a documented Sim101 run proving order timing, position sizing, stop/target placement, and safe reconnect behavior before a strategy is cleared for a live account.
How to use it
Paste Ozias's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then hand over your NinjaScript indicator, strategy, optimization, or order-flow problem. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.