NYX Intraday US Tech Index

Nyx is a fully automatic intraday Expert Advisor for the US Tech 100 index. It opens at most one trade per day during the US session and is always flat before the close: no position is ever held overnight or over the weekend.

How it trades

• One market: the US Tech 100 index (USTEC, NAS100 or US100 depending on your broker).
• At most one trade per day, only during the US cash session.
• Every trade has a stop loss and a take profit from the moment it opens.
• Any open trade is closed before the end of the US session.
• No martingale, no grid, no averaging down, no hedging of losing trades.
• Position size is calculated from your equity and the risk you choose.
• US market holidays and half days are skipped automatically.

Strategy Tester results

MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, January 2018 to November 2026, IC Markets data, 1-minute OHLC, 100,000 USD deposit, 1% risk per trade, spreads included.

• Net profit: +325%
• Trades: 1,041
• Winning trades: 52.5%
• Profit factor: 1.36
• Maximum equity drawdown: 12.1%
• Positive years: 8 of 9
• Average trade duration: 2 h 46 min

These are backtest results, not the results of a live account. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Requirements

• MetaTrader 5, hedging or netting account.
• A broker offering the US Tech 100 index CFD.
• Recommended minimum deposit: 2,000 USD at 1% risk. If the chosen risk is too small for the minimum lot, the minimum lot is used as long as its risk stays below 2.5 times the chosen risk; otherwise the trade is skipped.
• The terminal must be running during the US session (09:30 to 16:00 New York time). A VPS is recommended.

Installation

1. Open one chart of the US Tech 100 index. Any timeframe.
2. Drag Nyx from the Navigator onto the chart.
3. Tick "Allow Algo Trading", set your risk per trade, click OK.
4. Make sure the Algo Trading button of the terminal is green.

Input parameters

• Risk per trade (% of equity) - percentage of equity lost if the stop loss is hit. Default 1.0.
• Detect broker time automatically - finds the New York session from your broker's clock. Keep it on for live trading. Default true.
• Broker time minus New York time - used in the Strategy Tester, or when automatic detection is off. 7 for most brokers whose server runs on GMT+2 / GMT+3. Default 7.
• Magic number - identifies the trades of Nyx. Change it only if you run two copies on the same symbol.

Try Nyx in the Strategy Tester and on a demo account before trading real money. Trading CFDs involves a high risk of losing capital.