GREAT TRADERS ARE BUILT IN THE GARAGE.

The Trader Toolkit is a free 18-page trading Playbook, sent by email. Also here, with no email needed: four calculators, guides to futures and the NinjaTrader 8 trading platform, and a Trade Lab that reviews the trades you export from NinjaTrader.

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Both free · The Toolkit needs your email · The Trade Lab works in your browser: no signup, nothing uploaded

Free now 18 Pages in the Playbook, free with your email
Free now 12 Guides to futures and NinjaTrader 8, no signup
Free now 4 Trading calculators, no signup
On the bench 8 EDGEON tools: paid order-flow indicators for NinjaTrader 8, still being built
The prices above are index and spot quotes for reference, not the futures contracts. Track all markets on TradingView

This is where the work
actually gets done.

Real trades, real tape

Coming to the channel: live sessions on NQ and MNQ, with the entries, the exits, and the losses other channels edit out. The tape doesn't lie, so neither will we.

Torn down & explained

Every setup gets stripped to the frame: the context, the trigger, the risk, the exit. If it can't be explained, it doesn't get traded.

An engine, not a black box

EDGEON, our NinjaTrader order-flow signal engine, is designed, coded, and tested in-house. Every signal is rules-based and confirms at bar close, with no repaint. Beside the signals sits the Gauge, a live reading of the tape that updates every 2 seconds. No mystery.

Every great thing
starts in a garage.

Apple. Harley. Hewlett-Packard. The garage is where you show up early, get your hands dirty, and build something real, long before anyone's watching.

That's how we treat trading. No penthouse gurus, no lambo promises, no get-rich-quick lottery ticket. Just a craft, learned rep by rep, reviewed honestly, and backed by tools we build ourselves. From its first video, the channel will document the whole process, wins and losses and lessons alike, so you can skip years of expensive guessing.

  • 01 Show the losses, not just the wins
  • 02 Risk first, profits second
  • 03 Build tools, don't rent hype
  • 04 Keep the door open for beginners: new to trading? Start here

The Trader Toolkit

The Toolkit is the Garage Playbook: eighteen printable pages of risk rules, position-size math, a prep routine, three setup frameworks and a daily worksheet. Free, and yours the moment you confirm your email. The Trade Lab and the calculators listed beside it need no email at all.

What happens next

  1. One email from support@garagetrades.com, with a link in it.
  2. One click on that link opens the Toolkit page, with the Playbook on it.
  3. After that we only write when something we promised is ready, like EDGEON Lite, the Gauge on its own. No weekly newsletter.

Educational content, never trade calls. Unsubscribe in one click. Privacy. This list is for the Toolkit only. The EDGEON waitlist is a separate signup.

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Still on the bench

  • EDGEON Lite: the Gauge, free for NinjaTrader 8 ON THE BENCHThe Gauge from EDGEON names the kind of market you're in: drive (fast and getting somewhere), churn (fast and going nowhere), vacuum (fast on thin liquidity), quiet (slow) or balance (none of those stands out). It never tells you what to trade. Still being built. Everyone on the Toolkit list or the EDGEON waitlist gets it the day it lands.

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Meet EDGEON.

Our set of order-flow indicators for NinjaTrader 8, tested on NQ and MNQ. It reads the buying and selling inside each bar and, by fixed rules, marks where that buying and selling stands out: a bar far out of line with the recent ones, a lean to one side that holds across several bars, a recent high or low rejected with force. It never tells you what to trade.

Seven signals, at bar close

Each one is rules-based and marked when its bar closes. A mark never moves or disappears afterwards.

The eighth tool: the Gauge, live

Every 2 seconds it names the kind of market you’re in: drive, churn, vacuum, quiet or balance, each spelled out above under Still on the bench.

Every signal logged

EDGEON runs on our own simulator charts every session, and each signal is logged and tested against its own history.

EDGEON is rolling into the shop

Every subscription starts with a 14-day trial for $14, credited against your first month. After that it renews monthly at the price announced at launch, and you can cancel anytime. It runs on NinjaTrader’s free plan, but it needs a live data feed with tick and bid/ask data, which that plan does not include. Waitlist members who start their trial within 21 days of launch lock founder pricing, a rate below the public price. Everyone on either list gets EDGEON Lite, the Gauge on its own, free the day it is finished.

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Look before you sign up.

Three pages of the free Playbook, and a Trade Lab debrief you can open without a file of your own.

The cover of The Garage Playbook The sizing math: the formulas for the risk budget and the number of contracts, with worked examples The daily worksheet: the session's risk numbers, the levels to watch, a log of up to eight trades and the shutdown checks
The cover, the sizing math and the daily worksheet: three of the Playbook's 18 pages. Get the whole thing.

No NinjaTrader file yet?

Open the Trade Lab's sample session and see a full debrief before you export anything.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this financial advice?

No. Everything on this site and the channel is for education and information only. We’re traders sharing our process, not advisors, and we never tell you what to buy or sell. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor.

Is EDGEON a signal service? Do you send trade alerts?

No, and it never will be. EDGEON is software that marks objective conditions on your own chart, confirmed at bar close, with no repainting. It never tells you what to buy or sell, we never send trade calls or alerts, and nothing we publish is personalized advice.

What platform and markets does EDGEON run on?

NinjaTrader 8, coded in-house in NinjaScript. We trade and test it on NQ and MNQ only: the E-mini Nasdaq-100 future and its micro. Those are the only markets we can speak for. EDGEON runs on its own bar type, a chart bar built by its own fixed rules, and the indicators also load on standard NinjaTrader charts.

Does it work on the free version of NinjaTrader?

Yes for the software, with one catch: market data. EDGEON is a NinjaScript indicator, and NinjaTrader’s free plan runs third-party indicators for charting and simulation, so you do not need a paid NinjaTrader licence or its Order Flow+ add-on. But EDGEON reads order flow, so it needs a real-time feed with tick and bid/ask data, and the free plan does not include one. That comes from a funded NinjaTrader account, or the data connection your broker or prop firm provides.

Will EDGEON make me profitable?

No tool can promise that, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you a story. EDGEON speeds up analysis and puts the same rules on every bar. The edge still comes from you: your process, your risk control, your reps. Most day traders lose money, and that is true with or without an indicator.

What do I get for free?

The Garage Playbook PDF, from the free Toolkit signup (a separate list from the EDGEON waitlist; the same address can join both), and the Trade Lab, which needs no signup at all. The Lab reads your own NinjaTrader export in your browser and builds the session debrief; nothing uploads. EDGEON Lite, the Gauge on its own, is still being built; everyone on either list gets it the day it lands. Free means free: no card, no trial clock, no catch.

How much does EDGEON cost?

EDGEON launches as a monthly subscription, cancel any time. The final price lands with the launch; waitlist members who start their trial within 21 days of launch lock founder pricing for as long as they stay subscribed. Every subscription starts with a 14-day trial for $14, and that $14 comes off your first month, so if you stay, the trial costs nothing extra. Two weeks on your own charts before the rest is due, and if you leave inside the fortnight the $14 is the whole of what it cost you. After the trial, the card you gave is charged monthly until you cancel.

What markets do you trade?

Only NQ and MNQ: the E-mini Nasdaq-100 future and its micro. Nothing else.

Buying EDGEON? Refunds, cancelling and how many computers it runs on are answered in the EDGEON page's questions. Question that is not here? Email us. We read every message ourselves, and there is no bot in the way.

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The Toolkit list sends the Playbook; the Trade Lab needs no signup at all. Founder pricing on EDGEON comes from its waitlist; the same address can join both. Unsubscribe with one click, any time.