Starter configurations for the most common setups — evaluation accounts, MNQ day trading, and the Kairos scalper — with the compliance settings the strategy enforces against the rules you enter.
Reference setups for common use cases. Treat these as starting frames — not prescriptions. Every trader's instrument, account size, broker, and risk tolerance is different, so adapt the recipe to your situation, validate in backtest, and use a shared layout from Discord whenever possible to start from a known-good configuration.
Timeframe: use the official Apex eval-friendly layout from Discord (see Shared Layouts) or pick a chart timeframe you've validated
Preset: Conservative (matches the spirit of an eval: capital preservation first)
Enable Prop Firm Settings: ON
Daily Loss Cap: your firm's current daily loss limit minus a 20% safety buffer — pull the limit from your Apex dashboard for your exact plan; plans differ and rules change
Daily Profit Cap: your plan's profit target minus ~20%, to bank the win early — again from your own dashboard
Enable Multi-Day Loss Guard: ON
Multi-Day Loss Cap: your plan's trailing drawdown minus a 15-20% buffer
Daily Reset Hour (NY): 18 (6:00 PM ET — CME session open, which most CME-aligned firms use; confirm your firm's reset window on their dashboard)
Active Hours: 0830-1130 Chicago — high-liquidity NY morning window
Max Trades / Day: 2 — a deliberately low starting cap; change it only against your own written plan
Contracts: 1 MNQ — contract count is your decision, not the strategy's
Every number above comes from your own firm dashboard. Rule sheets differ by firm and by plan and change without notice — confirm yours before sizing.
Day Trading
MNQ Auto-Routed
10 min Intermediate
Algo: Paradox Algo Strategy v7.4
Instrument: MNQ1! (MNQ = $0.50/tick — see cheat sheet)
Use Manual Brackets: OFF (volatility-scaled brackets adapt as the market regime shifts)
Trail Trigger / Distance: leave on the Balanced preset defaults — the trail arms once the trade is far enough ahead, then holds a volatility-scaled distance behind peak price
Recovery Period: 4 bars after a loss (wall-clock time scales with your chart timeframe)
Active Hours: 0830-1500 Chicago (full RTH window)
Routing: PickMyTrade → Tradovate (best for futures-only setups)
Alert Condition: Any alert() function call (this is the ONLY setting you configure in TradingView — frequency is built into the strategy)
Brackets are volatility-scaled — they widen and tighten on their own as conditions change through the day, so your risk stays proportional. Glossary →
Instrument: MES1! (Micro S&P — $1.25/tick), or MNQ1! / ES1! if your account supports it
Timeframe: use the official Kairos preconfigured layout from Discord (starts you on a configuration we've validated) or pick a chart timeframe you've validated yourself
Profile: leave the default — Kairos ships pre-tuned with our optimized configuration active out of the box (Profile = Custom). Conservative / Balanced / Aggressive remain available as opt-in presets; the dashboard shows "preset locked" vs "CUSTOM" so you always know which is driving
Session: Active Hours 08:30–11:30, Session Timezone New York, Weekday Filter ON (Mon–Fri) — the NY morning liquidity burst. Full-RTH alternative: 08:30–15:00 ET. See Kairos session settings
Daily Risk Limit: $500 — a strict starting value; set it from your own plan and your firm's cap
Daily Profit Target: 0 (disabled by default — turn on if your prop firm requires a specific daily target)
Loss Circuit Breaker: 2 — after 2 consecutive losses it halts new entries for the remainder of the day, then resets at the next session (or on a win)
Recovery Period: 6 bars after a loss before the strategy is allowed to re-enter (wall-clock time scales with chart timeframe)
Stop-Loss Order Type: Stop (default) — all routing providers accept it. Use Stop-Limit only if your broker supports it and you've tested in paper
Contracts: 1 to start — contract count is your decision, not the strategy's
Routing: PickMyTrade, TradersPost, or CrossTrade (NinjaTrader 8) — all native dropdown options in v1.5 (QuantLynk is retired; why →)
Alert Condition: Any alert() function call (the only TradingView alert setting to configure — frequency is built into the strategy)
Upgrading from v1.2? Tuned v1.2 configurations don't carry over — the signal engine changed in v1.3. Start from the shipped defaults (or re-tune), and re-create the alert from scratch. See Kairos Scalper v1.5.
Always paper-trade firstThese are starter configs — not signed guarantees. Run every recipe in paper for at least one week and verify it behaves the way you expect before going live with real capital.