A healthcare professional from Miami building NinjaTrader strategies between hospital shifts. Honest backtests, transparent code, and the bots that actually survive live markets.
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I'm not a hedge fund. I'm not a guru. I'm a hospital tech who learned to code at midnight because edge isn't given — it's built, alone, after the kids go to sleep.
Every backtest published. Every losing trade documented. Every strategy that fails — I write the autopsy. No black boxes, no "$10K in 7 days" screenshots, no Discord shilling.
A working bot isn't the hard part. A working bot you don't override at 3 AM is. We build systems that survive your own worst impulses, not just the market's.
One profitable bot beats ten "promising" ones. We don't ship strategies until they survive three quarters of live data with our own money. No shortcuts.
— The Bots —
Free NinjaScript downloads with full backtest transparency. No black boxes. See the code, see the numbers, run it yourself.
Trades the 02:30–04:00 ET window. Builds the overnight range silently, fires one breakout entry, exits hard at 04:00. Designed for people who sleep during the day shift.
The second strategy that survived walk-forward testing out of 14. Mean-reversion scalper fading ES pre-market extremes back to the EMA midline — 62.3% win rate.
— The Journal —
Published every Sunday. Code walkthroughs, prop firm reviews, and the slow journey of building bots that earn their keep.
A realistic 90-day roadmap for busy professionals. Written by a healthcare worker who codes strategies after the day shift ends. No hype, no fluff — just the path that actually works.
I funded accounts with both. Here's what the YouTube reviews leave out: the rule traps, the payout reality, and which one actually pays night-shift schedules.
A complete strategy that only trades the 02:30–04:00 EST window. Why this matters for traders with day jobs — and the surprising edge in the data when nobody else is watching.
TradingView alerts → webhook → NinjaTrader execution. Setup, costs, latency benchmarks, and the gotchas that will break your bot silently while you sleep.
I tested 14 popular "free" strategies from public forums. Twelve curve-fit themselves into oblivion. Two survived. Here's what separated them — and the methodology you can copy.
Why the hardest part of automated trading isn't building the bot. It's not closing the chart at 2 AM when it's down −$400 on its way to +$900. A field guide for night-shift discipline.
I use both. One wins on profit splits and NinjaTrader integration. The other has the best payout policy in the industry. Here's the honest side-by-side.
A math-first engine built on OU half-life, variance ratios and t-statistics, with a probability gate that blocks any trade with negative expected value after costs. Full code + honest NQ backtest.
— The Author —
My name is Alex Gutierrez. By day, I'm a Lead Echocardiography Technician at a hospital in South Florida. I scan tiny hearts — pediatric patients who need someone steady, careful, and obsessively precise.
By night, I'm a trader. Not the kind who posts Lamborghinis on Instagram. The kind who learned to code in NinjaScript because spending another year losing to discretionary trades wasn't acceptable when there's a daughter watching.
Night Shift Quant is the journal I wish existed when I started: an honest record of building algorithmic strategies between hospital shifts. The strategies that worked, the ones that blew up, and the slow process of becoming consistent. No hype. No fake screenshots. Just the work.
— from Miami, after the day shift