Why this exists
A backtest that cannot fill is not a system.
- If a gap through the stop fills at the stop instead of the open, a loser can print as a winner. That is how most backtests cheat. 0rbit’s engine walks 1-minute bars. Gap-through exits fill at the open. Entries wait for the first open after the signal bar closes.
That is the whole point of the platform: live performance should look like the research because the research was not allowed to cheat.
Reliable data is the other half. Session volume and aggressor from the lock tape — not a thin history pull treated as proof.
TickStream data
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Honest 1-minute fill model
The signal bar closes first. The fill is the next minute’s open — the first price a live seat could have lifted or hit. Stops walk the same 1-minute bars. A gap through the stop fills at that open, not at the price the market skipped. Commission is in the walk. A number that needs a kinder fill is not quoted.
You keep the account
0rbit owns the book and sends the broker a run package. The broker auto-trades and keeps commission. You open the futures account, pick size, pay the lease, and take the P&L. Month-to-month. Cancel at month-end. No source. No rule sheet.
What 0rbit is
Software, systems, and a fill model that does not flatter.
Most “AI trading” is a slogan. Here AI is a coding partner on a futures desk: research, tests, locks, live HUDs. The founder owns the rules. The platform owns the fills. Nothing is listed until the walk is honest.
Lock on a named tape
A lock is a frozen spec on a named data tape — session volume and aggressor from that source, not a shorter or differently adjusted file treated as proof. If two files disagree on the back-adjust, they are not the same walk. The platform will not pretend they are.
A coding partner. Not a black-box trader.
The founder uses AI to write and test the stack: scanners, locks, fill audits, live order paths.
That is how a one-person desk ships a backtester and a seat without relaxing the honesty rule.
AI does not pick the trade. It does not get a vote when a fill model flatters a result. If it is not accurate, it is not shipped.
Glossary
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Lock — frozen rules on a specific tape
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Walk — the backtest using those fill rules
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Seat — the live account the broker trades
Same rules in research and live
The backtester and the live manager import the same entry, stop, gap-through, and flatten rules. The seat is not allowed to “improve” on the research. If live cannot do it, the walk does not get to claim it.
Hypothetical results have many inherent limitations. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss. 0rbit is a vendor of systematic methods. It is not an offer of advisory services and not a solicitation to open an account.