Hire a futures developer to build trading bots, NinjaTrader strategies, prop firm automation, multi-account trade copiers and order flow tools for ES, NQ, CL, GC and other contracts.
Strategies, order flow tools and copiers for exchange-traded futures — on personal, evaluation and funded accounts.
Nordman Algorithms builds automated futures trading systems for traders, prop traders, small funds and trading teams. Our futures developers turn trading rules, a written specification or just a plain description into trading bots, NinjaTrader strategies, order flow tools and trade copiers for NinjaTrader, Tradovate and Quantower.
Futures algorithmic trading depends on the contract — tick size and tick value, trading sessions, rollover to the next expiry — and, on evaluation and funded accounts, on the firm’s daily loss, trailing drawdown and contract limits. Our code works from these details instead of assuming them, and is tested in simulation before it trades live.
Strategies, prop firm tools, copiers, order flow and integrations for exchange-traded futures — built from your rules.
Automated strategies for NinjaTrader and Quantower, and API bots for Tradovate, built from your rules — entries, exits, order management and position sizing for ES, NQ, CL, GC and other contracts, including NinjaTrader ATM templates.
Strategies and tools that follow evaluation and funded-account rules — daily loss, trailing drawdown, maximum contracts and closing positions before the session ends — calculated the way your firm does.
Trades copied from a master account to personal, evaluation and funded accounts on NinjaTrader and Tradovate, with a size multiplier and risk limits for each account.
Footprint, delta and volume profile built from executed trades, and DOM tools built from the orders resting in the book — once we confirm your connection provides the data they need.
Custom indicators for NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView: signals, levels, sessions and alerts — on time, tick, range or Renko bars.
Trade management for manual trading: one-click orders, contract size from risk, brackets and ATM-style stops, targets and break-even.
Signals from TradingView alerts, Telegram or Discord executed on NinjaTrader or Tradovate — or, where timing matters and the underlying rules are available, the rules implemented in a platform strategy or an external API bot.
Trading systems connected to the Tradovate or Interactive Brokers API, plus historical and live data: individual or merged contract history, tick data and market depth.
Strategies and indicators moved between NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Quantower, TradingView, MetaTrader and Python, with behaviour compared to the original.
Changes and fixes to strategies and indicators you already use — new rules, risk settings, or code another developer left unfinished.
Before development starts, we check that your accounts support the connection, automation and copying the project needs — this depends on the platform, the broker and, for evaluation and funded accounts, the firm’s rules.
Tell us what you need — a strategy, a tool for your funded accounts, an integration or changes to an existing one — and we will come back with what it involves.
Every project is built around its own rules. These are the capabilities futures strategies, copiers and tools commonly combine.
Trading index or commodity CFDs at a forex broker rather than exchange futures? See Forex Automation.
Strategies run inside NinjaTrader, Quantower, TradeStation and MetaTrader 5; external applications connect through the Tradovate and Interactive Brokers APIs; TradingView and thinkorswim supply charts, studies and signals.
NinjaTraderCore platformFutures are its primary market: strategies, order flow tools and ATM-based trade management.NinjaTrader development →
TradovateCore platformA cloud futures platform with JavaScript indicators and API-based automation.Tradovate development →
QuantowerMulti-broker platformA multi-broker futures platform with C# strategies, indicators and plugins.Quantower development →
TradeStationFutures & stocksFutures alongside stocks, with EasyLanguage strategies and indicators.TradeStation development →
Interactive BrokersThrough the APIFutures on many exchanges through the TWS API, from Python or C# applications.Interactive Brokers development →
TradingViewAnalysis & alertsFutures charts and Pine Script alerts; execution happens where the alert is sent.TradingView development →
thinkorswimStudies & scansFutures studies and scans on the chart; execution stays manual in the platform.thinkorswim development →
MetaTrader 5Exchange-traded futuresFutures at MT5 brokers with exchange connectivity, with EAs built around contract specifications and rollover.MetaTrader 5 development →The technologies we use to build external trading applications, connect accounts, process market data and execute signals.
Research on historical and tick data, contract history handling, and trading applications on broker APIs.
Explore Python →Desktop tools and background services that sit beside the platforms you trade on, such as copiers and account monitors.
Explore C# →Node.js services that trade through the Tradovate API, and web dashboards for following accounts and copiers.
Explore JavaScript →Orders, positions and account data through the Tradovate or Interactive Brokers API.
Explore REST API →Live prices, fills and account updates streamed to bots and copiers, with reconnection handled.
Explore WebSocket →TradingView and other alerts delivered to NinjaTrader or Tradovate and checked against your rules before execution.
Explore Webhooks →We agree the rules, your platform and contracts, any evaluation or funded-account limits and the acceptance checks with you before any code is written.
Send your trading rules or the tool that needs work, the platform and contracts you trade, and your prop firm’s rules for evaluation or funded accounts.
Receive the project source code, the ready-to-use files for your platform, templates where they are used, and a guide to every input. We walk through the specified behaviour and provide technical support under the agreed terms.
Work with futures developers who build NinjaTrader and Tradovate tools every day.
We build and sell our own NinjaTrader order flow indicators and trade copiers, so tick data, footprint charts and multi-account execution are familiar ground.
We make sure the code follows the agreed rules. We do not sell bots that promise to pass evaluations or deliver returns.
Requirements, deliverables, fixed price and acceptance examples are agreed before development begins.
An NDA is available on request. Source code and full IP ownership are transferred on delivery.
Installation help, input explanations and technical answers within the agreed support scope.
Feedback from clients across our custom trading software projects.
Our futures tools cover order flow, session analysis and signal execution on NinjaTrader, built with the same methods we use for client projects.
FootPrint OrderFlow indicator: bid/ask volume per price, per-bar POC and Value Area, diagonal imbalances, stacked imbalance zones, unfinished auctions, delta.
Best SellerLiquidity Sweeps indicator: swing high and low sweeps, wick-based or break-and-retest detection, minimum sweep distance, mitigation modes, zone expiry, alerts.
Best SellerKill Zones indicator: ICT Asian, London and New York sessions, custom sessions, session high, low and midpoint pivots, Day Open, extended pivots, alerts.
TrendingCloud copier from TradingView alerts to NinjaTrader 8: manual, strategy and indicator workflows, No-Code setup, TP/SL, position sizing, prop limits.
Browse our futures product range, or ask us to build a tool around your own rules.
Practical answers about futures strategies, funded accounts and copiers.
Yes. Share your rules as a written specification or a plain description of entries, exits, filters and risk. We build it as a NinjaTrader or Quantower strategy, or as an API bot for Tradovate, and test it in simulation — and on market replay where the platform supports it — before it trades live.
Yes. Daily loss limits, trailing drawdown and maximum contracts can be tracked the way your firm calculates them, including when the daily limit resets. Numeric limits are set as inputs; if a firm changes how it calculates a rule, the logic may need a code update.
It depends on the platform, the connection your accounts use and the firm’s rules. Where the accounts allow it, a copier places the master account’s trades on your other NinjaTrader or Tradovate accounts, with a size multiplier for each and a check against its limits before every order. We confirm what your accounts support before development starts.
It is a project decision in three parts: when to switch to the next contract, what happens to open positions and working orders at that moment, and which history to test on — individual contracts or merged history, with or without back-adjustment — depending on the strategy.
Yes. Alerts are received through a webhook and executed on your platform. Where alert delay matters and the underlying rules are available, the logic can run directly on the platform or through its API instead.
Yes — footprint, delta and cumulative delta from executed trades, volume profile, and DOM tools from resting orders. First we check that your connection provides the tick data, bid/ask marking and market depth the tool needs, including enough history. We also build and sell our own NinjaTrader FootPrint indicator.
No. We check that the software follows the agreed rules and the firm’s limits. We do not guarantee passing an evaluation or future results.
Yes. The full source code and all rights to it are yours on delivery.
Send your strategy, tool requirements or existing code, and tell us your platform, contracts and account rules. We will look at it and come back with the scope, timeline and next steps.