At a glance

A 30-second read on each tool before the detail below.

Market Awareness

ZIdentifier

NT8 chart indicator

Reads recent market behavior on an affiliated pair and scores which strategy setting currently fits best — including telling you when it can't tell.

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Execution

ZCopier

Trade copier, v1.1.6

Duplicates a master account's orders to up to 6 follower accounts, across instruments, brokers and account types, with built-in safety guards.

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Account Record

ZAccountant

Live account panel + daily log

A pure observer: shows live P&L, trade count, win rate, and drawdown on the chart, and can write a daily record to CSV. Places no orders, runs no strategy.

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Core Trading Strategy

ZStrategy

Shipping instance: ZStrategyNQ

An instrument-agnostic trading engine, delivered as per-instrument calibrated instances. Today, one instance is validated and delivered as ZStrategyNQ, trading NQ paired with ES. High-risk, full-size by default — rescale to Micro with a built-in setting.

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Market Awareness

ZIdentifier

NT8 chart indicator · self-validating via the out-of-sample standard on the Research page

ZIdentifier is a Bayesian setting scorer, not a classifier. It reads a trailing 15-session lookback on an affiliated pair and outputs a posterior probability distribution over the strategy's settings — a probabilistic starting bias for the coming period, not a verdict. It scores settings; you decide. "Regime A / B / Transitional" are cosmetic labels for the market character each setting fits best.

What it does

  • Daily posterior over settings A (mean-reverting), B (trending), and C (transitional), with a confidence readout.
  • Evidence axes — Efficiency Ratio, outer-quartile close fraction, and rolling correlation of the affiliated pair — all dimensionless.
  • Honest ambiguity by design: when the evidence can't separate two settings, it says so (e.g. "A .431 / B .431 — AMBIGUOUS") instead of forcing a confident call. See a live example on the Research page.
  • Contract-roll integrity gate — every displayed score is computed on clean current-contract data.
  • Honest precision, too: for the first sessions after a contract roll, its evidence window is still filling — it labels those scores as not yet precise rather than presenting them as settled.
  • Pure research indicator: no trading logic, no orders ever submitted.

Use case

Market awareness on synchronized-roll index complexes — read the bias before you trade, whether by hand or paired with ZStrategyNQ. It's a standalone companion: read it on its own, or let ZStrategyNQ optionally reference its score to inform which signal set it dynamically applies. Either way, the trading decision itself stays with you (manually) or with the strategy's own validated logic (when coupled) — ZIdentifier never places an order.

Scoped warranty: validated for synchronized-roll index complexes — ES/NQ, RTY/YM, and their micros — which share a single quarterly roll date. Staggered-roll pairs (GC/SI, CL) are not yet in the validated warranty; each is added, validated, and disclosed as a finding as research allows. We only claim what's been checked.

Licensing

Machine-bound license key, unique to ZIdentifier. Tiers: Trial-30, Trial-60, Annual-360, or Unlimited. See Pricing for rates.

Execution

ZCopier

Trade copier · current version v1.1.6 · built and shipping

ZCopier copies orders from a master NT8 account to up to 6 follower accounts simultaneously — across different instruments, different brokers and across account types. It's instrument-agnostic, useful for any researcher running parallel studies on affiliated assets (NQ/MNQ, GC/MGC, ES/MES, SI/SIL).

What it does

  • Up to 6 follower accounts — different instruments, different brokers, different quantity ratios.
  • Dual-source stale-fire guard — prevents false flattens when the master is still in position.
  • Catastrophe stop placed automatically on every follower entry.
  • Orphan cat-stop sweeper — clears stale protective stops on flat followers every 5 seconds.
  • Reconnect watchdog — detects and flattens orphaned master positions after a connection loss.
  • Reducing-order guard — blocks exit copies when a follower has no matching position.
  • One-shot flatten timer (new in v1.1.6) — every exit path stops the timer, closing off a class of spin-loop faults.

ZCopier is plumbing, not performance. It generates no trades and improves none — it moves orders reliably from one account to another. Whether those orders are any good is a question about the master strategy or your manual trading talent, not about ZCopier.

Use case

Multi-account research duplication — run one master and study the same signal across several accounts, brokers, or instrument sizes at once. Pairs naturally with ZStrategyNQ (NQ master, MNQ/MES followers) or with ZIdentifier-informed manual trading duplicated across accounts.

Licensing

Machine-bound license key, unique to ZCopier. Tiers: Trial-30, Trial-60, Annual-360, or Unlimited. See the Documentation page for the install guide, and Pricing for rates.

Account Record

ZAccountant

Live account panel and daily record · built and shipping

ZAccountant shows, live on the chart, what an account is actually doing — realized and unrealized P&L, trade count, win rate, average and largest win and loss, and drawdown, updating as fills arrive. It can also write one row per session to a CSV, so the daily record survives a platform restart.

What it does

  • Live account panel: realized and unrealized P&L, trade count, win rate, average and largest win/loss, drawdown.
  • Rebuilds every statistic from the account's own fills — it doesn't read strategy state or any other product's output.
  • Optional daily CSV log: one row per session, so the record survives a restart.

ZAccountant is a pure observer. It places no orders, contains no strategy, and reads no strategy state. It reports what happened; it does not predict, advise, or trade.

Use case

An honest daily record for any account — a ZStrategyNQ master, a ZCopier follower, or a manually-traded account. Pairs naturally with ZCopier: watch the master and every follower's actual numbers side by side, not just the copied orders.

Licensing

Machine-bound license key, unique to ZAccountant. Tiers: Trial-30, Trial-60, Annual-360, or Unlimited. See Pricing for rates.

Core Trading Strategy

ZStrategy

Shipping instance today: ZStrategyNQ (NQ, paired with ES) · out-of-sample validation in progress — live status on the Research page

The engine ZStrategy Instrument-agnostic trading logic — entry system, trade management, risk controls. Identical across every market it's calibrated for.
This instance ZStrategyNQ ZStrategy calibrated and validated for NQ, paired with ES. The engine's first instance — and today, the only one shipped.

One name, multiple relationships: ZStrategy is the core engine; ZStrategyNQ is that engine fitted to one market through calibration — the tuned values that adapt it to NQ's own volatility and rhythm. Improve the engine and every future calibrated instance benefits; calibrate a new instrument and you're applying a proven engine, not starting from zero.

What it does

  • Multi-series architecture — entries are decided on a primary series, confirmed against same or higher-timeframe, with or without an affiliated-asset context.
  • Tick-precision execution — orders execute at tick precision, rather than everything collapsing onto one bar series, regardless of the timeframe decisions are made on, matching how we validate: on tick-replay data.
  • Regime adaptivity — recognizes calmer, mean-reverting stretches versus trending, volatile ones, and adapts rather than trading one fixed style through every condition.
  • Multi-entry system — a family of entry signals covering different market behaviors (breakouts, fades, reversals, liquidity sweeps), selected by condition rather than a single one-size setup.
  • Chase — adaptive, multi-tier trailing that tightens or widens with conditions, protecting open profit without cutting winners short.
  • Scoop — active winner capture; banks a winner once the move has paid enough, rather than waiting on a fixed target.
  • Session risk controls — daily profit and loss limits, a drawdown limit, and a defensive stand-down, built in at the session level.
  • Instrument portability — reads each contract's own specifications live, scaling correctly between a full-size contract and its 1:10 micro sibling via a simple built-in off/on toggle, without re-engineering.

Internal logic and product-specific tuned calibration values are proprietary and not published — the above describes what each capability does for you, not how it's implemented.

Solo vs. paired — which mode ships

The engine can run paired (using an affiliated market as a second input, gating entries on the correlation between the two) or solo (on a single market alone). Which mode ships is not a preference you set — it's decided per instrument by whichever mode produces the superior validated performance for that market, then enforced.

For ZStrategyNQ specifically: the validated, shipped configuration is PAIRED — NQ gated on ES. That's what our published results demonstrate and what the product runs by default. Solo mode is a genuine engine capability, but it has not been calibrated or validated for NQ, so we make no performance claim about it. A user that unlocks the calibrated setting of ZStrategyNQ can research solo mode themselves; that's outside the validated, shipped product.

The Locker

ZStrategyNQ ships calibrated and locked by default (status: LOCKED) — it runs its validated configuration, including the paired-mode decision above, automatically. You can unlock it to research your own settings; once unlocked, the tool runs your setting values and the validated calibration no longer applies. Every proof video on the Research page is produced locked. Full explainer on the Research page.

Read this before you consider it: ZStrategyNQ trades full-size NQ by default — a high-reward, high-risk strategy — and it is not designed to pass a funded-account evaluation. Smaller or eval-constrained-type accounts should look instead at downscaling to MNQ via the optional strategy setting (Micro off/on) or via ZCopier. Full disclosure on the Research page.

Use case

NQ regime-adaptive research, validated in its paired (NQ/ES) configuration — a self-contained strategy for studying how the engine performs across market conditions, with every calibration and out-of-sample result labeled and published on the Research page.

Where the engine goes next

The core strategy, ZStrategy, is engineered to be suitable for trading the most liquid CME futures — each available in a full-size and a 1:10 micro contract. "Suitable for" describes the engine's architecture fit, not availability: it does not mean an instrument is calibrated yet. Today exactly one is a validated, available product.

ProductFull / MicroMarketStatus
NQNQ / MNQE-mini Nasdaq-100Validated & available (ZStrategyNQ)
ESES / MESE-mini S&P 500Calibration candidate
RTYRTY / M2KE-mini Russell 2000Calibration candidate
YMYM / MYME-mini DowCalibration candidate
GCGC / MGCGoldCalibration candidate
CLCL / MCLCrude OilCalibration candidate

A calibration candidate becomes a product only after its own out-of-sample validation, published the same way as NQ's. A calibration that doesn't reach acceptable validated performance doesn't ship — no exceptions.

Licensing

You license a specific calibrated instance, not the engine in the abstract — today, that's ZStrategyNQ. Machine-bound license key, unique to ZStrategyNQ. Tiers: Trial-30, Trial-60, Annual-360, or Unlimited. See Pricing for rates.

Combinations

Not a ladder — a constellation. Enter at any product; the others are natural additions, not prerequisites.

CombinationResearch use case
ZIdentifier aloneMarket awareness on synchronized-roll index complexes (ES/NQ, RTY/YM and their micros).
ZCopier aloneMulti-account research duplication — any strategy, any instrument pair.
ZAccountant aloneAn honest daily record for any account, traded manually or by any strategy.
ZStrategyNQ aloneNQ regime-adaptive research, validated in its paired (NQ/ES) configuration — self-contained.
ZIdentifier + ZStrategyNQRead the probabilistic starting bias, then trade it — the natural research pair.
ZStrategyNQ + ZCopierRun an NQ master, copy to MNQ/MES followers simultaneously.
ZCopier + ZAccountantWatch the master and every follower's actual numbers side by side, not just the copied orders.
ZIdentifier + ZCopierAssess bias across affiliated assets, transmit your trading signals to parallel accounts.
All fourThe complete Z-Suite launch lineup.

How licensing works

Same mechanism across every product (current and future) — machine-bound, date-visible, non-transferable.

ElementDetail
Key formatDate-bound (expires a specific date) or Unlimited.
TiersTrial-30, Trial-60, Annual-360, or Unlimited — same license system across all products.
Machine bindingEach key is tied to your NT8 Machine ID and won't work on another machine.
Per-product keysA ZCopier key won't unlock ZStrategyNQ, and vice versa — each product uses its own key.
Getting a keyLoad the product in NT8 without a key and your Machine ID appears in the Output window. Send it to support@ZAlgoStrategy.com (or use the Contact page) and we'll issue your key.
Step-by-step install and activation instructions live on the Documentation page. Pricing for each tier is on the Pricing page.