Frequently asked questions

Futures like NQ (Nasdaq-100), GC (gold) and BTC (bitcoin) trade on one central, regulated exchange with a single consolidated price feed — and every broker's cash index or CFD is derived from exactly that future. Building the statistics on the futures gives one clean, consistent dataset that isn't distorted by an individual broker's spread, feed or session quirks. Because every figure here is a ratio (range vs ADR, moves in SD), it is price-scale-agnostic and carries straight over to the matching CFD.

Yes. The cash index or CFD your broker offers (for example US100 / NAS100, XAUUSD or BTCUSD) tracks the underlying future very closely during the cash session, so the opening-range behaviour is effectively the same. Two things to keep in mind: your broker's spread, commission and exact quote times differ slightly from the futures, and you must still measure the opening range at 09:30–09:45 New York time. Always back-test on your own broker's symbol before trading it live.

Because currency futures are quoted the other way round. A CME currency future is the foreign currency priced in US dollars — the yen future (6J) is dollars-per-yen — whereas the spot/CFD quote most people watch, USD/JPY, is yen-per-dollar. The two are inverses, so the 6J chart is flipped versus USD/JPY: when USD/JPY rises (the dollar gains on the yen) 6J falls, and vice-versa. So a short-side edge on 6J is the same trade as long USD/JPY — don't read the futures direction as the USD/JPY direction. The same flip applies to any pair normally quoted USD/XXX (USD/CHF, USD/CAD…). Pairs already quoted XXX/USD — like the British pound, where 6B matches GBP/USD — line up with their future and need no flipping.

Prices are one-minute bars from Databento (CME/COMEX GLBX.MDP3, front-month contract); macro-news dates come from the US Federal Reserve and FRED. Nothing is logged or hand-picked by eye. The whole dataset is recomputed from fresh market data automatically once a week.

Most symbols — NQ (Nasdaq-100), ES (S&P 500), GC (gold), CL (crude oil), 6B (British pound), 6J (Japanese yen), FDAX (DAX 40) and YM (Dow Jones) — reach back to 2008, roughly 4,700 trading days each; BTC (bitcoin) starts at its CME launch in December 2017, and 6E (euro) reaches back to mid-2010. The time-horizon control lets you narrow that to any recent window, right down to the last month.

All times are computed in US Eastern time and then relabelled into the timezone you choose at the top of the filters. The US and Europe switch between summer and winter time (daylight saving) on different dates — roughly two weeks apart each spring and autumn — so during those short windows the New York open lands an hour earlier or later on your local clock than usual (for example 15:30 vs 14:30 Berlin time). The opening range is always anchored to the real market open; only the clock label moves. Keep this in mind when reading the timing charts around late March and late October / early November.

By default, the moment price first pierces the opening-range edge (a touch) over your chosen window — the earliest possible entry, and the new default. Its direction sets the trade. If you want more confirmation, the Entry control lets you switch to a 5- or 15-minute candle close beyond the edge instead (wait for a candle to close, ignoring brief pokes).

One SD is one full opening-range width, measured from the broken edge. It is the natural unit of risk: entering at the break with a stop at the opposite edge risks about 1 SD, so targets, drawdown and the equity curves are all expressed in SD / R multiples — comparable across instruments no matter their price.

No — they are a simplified simulation: enter at the trigger candle's close, stop at the opposite edge, exit at your chosen SD target or the cash close, with no spread, commission or slippage. They exist to compare how conditions change the outcome, not as a live track record.

Any bucket with fewer than five days is hidden, because a single day showing 100% is noise, not a statistic. Widen your filters or the time horizon to bring small buckets back.

NQ (Nasdaq-100) is completely free. ES (S&P 500), GC (gold), CL (crude oil), BTC (bitcoin), 6B (British pound), 6J (Japanese yen), 6E (euro), FDAX (DAX 40) and YM (Dow Jones) are premium. The three micro contracts — MNQ (Micro Nasdaq), MES (Micro S&P) and MGC (Micro Gold), the ones most prop firms run — are paid too, but they ride along free with their full-size parent: MNQ comes with any paid plan, MES with ES, MGC with GC. You pick any 2 of the premium symbols as a bundle (micros aren't picked — they come on top of your picks), or get all-access to every current and future symbol for less than the bundles add up to.

Because the micro contracts ride along on top of your 2 picks for free. A Pick 2 plan always gives you your 2 chosen premium symbols plus free NQ, and then the micros are added automatically: Micro Nasdaq (MNQ) with any paid plan, Micro S&P (MES) if you pick ES, and Micro Gold (MGC) if you pick GC. So you get 4 markets at minimum (NQ + your 2 + MNQ) and up to 6 if you pick both ES and GC (adding MES and MGC). The micros never use up one of your 2 picks — they come on top.

Click any locked symbol to open the subscribe panel, choose your 2 symbols (or all-access), and check out. After paying, log in with the same email and the symbols unlock — their full history loads just like NQ. To change which symbols are in your bundle later, just cancel your current subscription from “Manage subscription” and subscribe again with the symbols you want — it only takes a moment.

The smallest plan is a 2-symbol bundle because the card-processing fees on a single low-priced subscription eat up too much of it to be worthwhile. Bundling two symbols spreads that fixed fee across a larger amount, which keeps the per-symbol price fair for you and sustainable for us.

A handful of features — Custom opening-range windows, the custom stop-loss and the in-tool trade charts — are paid even on free NQ. They are not “better” or special numbers; the reason is purely cost and speed. The free NQ stats run off a tiny pre-computed file, so they are instant and free. Those other features instead re-simulate from the full 1-minute price history (tens of megabytes per symbol, downloaded and crunched in your browser) or rely on data and infrastructure that costs real money to serve — so putting them behind a subscription is what keeps the free tool genuinely fast and free for everyone. As the engine gets faster and cheaper over time, some of these are likely to open up on free NQ too.

There are no passwords. Enter your email in the “Log in” box at the top of the page and we email you a one-click magic link. Clicking it signs you in for 90 days on that browser, so an active subscriber rarely has to log in again. Your access is tied to your email, so use the same address you subscribed with.

No — your price is locked for life. As new symbols and features are added the list price will rise, but as long as your subscription stays active you keep the price you signed up at. Lock in early and you are grandfathered in.

Use “Manage subscription” at the top of the page once logged in — it opens the secure billing portal where you can update payment details or cancel. Billing is monthly and you can cancel anytime; access runs to the end of the paid period.

Two quick steps, both from the Account menu at the top of the tool once you’re logged in (use the same email you subscribed with). First, click Join the Discord to enter the server. Then click Connect Discord and authorise — that links your subscription to your Discord account, and the Paid role appears automatically within a moment. You need both: joining gets you into the server, connecting applies the role. If you later upgrade, change or cancel your plan, the role updates by itself — no need to reconnect.

Yes. Once you've been a subscriber for about three months, a Leave a review option appears in the Account menu at the top of the tool (it stays locked until then, so reviews come from people who have genuinely used the tool for a while). Write a short review — optionally with a screenshot — and once it has been checked and approved it appears on the public testimonials wall. As a thank-you for an approved review, we credit you one month free on your subscription, applied to your next invoice. It is entirely optional and your honest opinion is what we are after — a review is never required to use anything.

There is a step-by-step reference guide to every control on the tool — picking a market, setting the session and opening range, filtering to your conditions, choosing the trade type, reading the outcome panels and building an equity curve.

Yes. The free ORBit Analytics TradingView indicator draws this exact setup live on your chart — filter a setup on the tool, copy its preset, paste it into the indicator, and it plots the opening range, the run/retracement/timing statistics and a dashboard that flags when today is outside your filters.

Yes — more symbols (more FX pairs, Russell and others) and new features (correlation insights, and later a live market-condition filter) are planned. Click “More coming soon” in the instrument row on the tool to see the full roadmap.

Yes. Reach out with your idea and if I consider it at least worth testing, I will build it and run my own checks. Several of the filters and panels here started as user requests, so every promising idea gets a fair shot — not all of them make it in, but each one is genuinely considered. Contact me here:

No. Everything here is historical market-behaviour data for education only. Past behaviour is not a prediction of the future, and trading financial instruments carries substantial risk.