No name and no photo, but everything you can check.
Who's behind it
FondeoReal is an independent project, run by a futures trader who also codes:
- Has traded futures since 2020, starting with crude oil (CL), and the Nasdaq since 2023.
- Almost always trades 50K prop firm accounts: started at Earn2Trade (its Trader Career Path) and Uprofit, plus the occasional 300K account at APEX.
- Has run their own NinjaTrader bots since 2022. The lessons, including what broke, are in the lab: for example, why they stopped at night.
No name and no photo: we'd rather you judge us by what you can check. None of those firms pays us.
What you can check:
- The NT8-MCP Lite code, on GitHub
- Our books, on Amazon
- The store, on Gumroad
- Email: [email protected]
How we measure
- Data. Mostly the Micro Nasdaq (MNQ) from 2019 to 2026 (it has only traded since May 2019). Some studies, especially the strategy searches, also keep the E-mini Nasdaq (NQ) from 2006 to 2019 as a second exam: what held up in both.
- Costs. About $1.20 commission per contract, round trip, plus 1 tick of slippage on entry and 1 on exit: about $2.20 per trade on the MNQ.
- Data the strategy hasn't seen. It's designed on some years and tested on others.
- Tested against chance. In market pattern studies, each idea is compared with something that has no edge: random entries, any level at the same distance or a shuffled market.
- Simulated evaluations. 3,000 per trader and account in the comparisons and in the simulator's main result (its firm-by-firm table uses 1,000 per account), with each firm's rules.
- Stop and target in the same bar. The most expensive backtest trap: a bug like this built us a strategy with a 90% win rate, and we caught it with 34 million ticks (how it happened).
- Margin of error. Market pattern studies give theirs; in simulated evaluations, percentages are rounded and come without one.
The 12 questions, as a checklist
These are simulated and hypothetical results: they help you decide better, they don't promise anything.
How we check each firm's rules
Wherever we can, each rule comes from the firm's official help center, and the table says the month it was checked (currently Oct 2026). If a figure comes from a third party and we couldn't confirm it on the firm's website, it carries a ⚠. Firms change their rules often: check them on their website before you pay.
How we make money
- Books. Sold by Amazon, which collects the payment; we receive author royalties.
- Software and downloads. Paid on Gumroad, which acts as the seller: it collects payment, issues the invoice and applies VAT or sales tax.
- Custom NinjaScript work. With a fixed quote.
No ads and no affiliate links. No prop firm pays us or reviews what we publish. If that changes, we'll say so on every page, and it won't change any ranking or rating.
Our software never sends your trades or your accounts to any server: it only sends your license key to Gumroad to check it (Prop Firm Lab at most once every 3 days, NT8-MCP Pro at most once a week). If you connect NT8-MCP to a cloud AI, what you ask it and what it reads from your accounts does go to that AI.
Corrections log
Each entry says when we reported it, what was wrong and what changed.
- Oct 22, 2026 · What we sell. The legal notice, the transparency page and the English home page said we sold nothing, while we were already selling software and downloads on Gumroad. We rewrote them to say what we sell and who collects the payment: legal notice.
- Oct 14, 2026 · A strategy with a 90% win rate that didn't exist. A labeling bug: the stop and the target fell in the same bar. We caught it by rerunning it on 34 million ticks: the labeling bug.
- Oct 14, 2026 · The opening range breakout. In NinjaTrader's managed order mode, a stop order cancelled the opposite one in the same bar, and the backtest showed a profit factor of 2.23. With the orders coded properly, 1.30: the breakout over 7 years.
- Oct 14, 2026 · The bots that stopped at night. Windows Update, connection drops and strategies disabled when flattening. What broke and how we fixed it: the bots at night.
Spotted a mistake? Write to [email protected]: we'll fix it and log it here, with the date.
Contact
Questions, mistakes or quotes: [email protected].
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