How Silex operates.
Silex Strategies publishes automated strategies for NinjaTrader 8. Today that is one strategy, Heptane, sold as a single membership. Everything we publish executes on your own machine, against your own account, under settings you control.
How Heptane runs
Seven internal strategies
Heptane is not one set of rules. It holds seven internal strategies and it is reading all of them continuously, deciding which one the current market suits. Exactly one may hold a position at a time, so what reaches your account is a single trade from a single strategy rather than seven fighting each other.
How one gets chosen stays inside
The selection is the work. We publish what the seven do to a position once one is chosen, the stop, the target and the trail, and we do not publish how the choice is made. A member does not need it to run the strategy, and it is the part that would be worth copying.
What you see on the chart
One entry, one bracket, one exit, marked with which of the seven took it. Everything else happens before the order and stays there.
Why access is capped
Support stays answerable
Every seat is one we have to support properly. A member who cannot get an answer inside two business days is a member who is on their own with an automated strategy, and that is not a position anyone should be in.
The edge does not get crowded
The strategy trades one instrument on one timeframe. A large enough group of people running the same entries at the same moment changes what those entries are worth. A small group does not.
The code stays contained
What you receive is compiled, not source. Every additional copy in circulation is additional exposure, and the number of copies is something we can actually control.
Fifteen seats is the number those three reasons point at. It is not a launch promotion and it does not expand because demand does.
How we work
Updates
Releases go to every active member at the same time, at no extra charge. There is no premium version and no member running different code from anyone else.
Future releases
Anything we release later is included in your membership at no additional charge, on either rate. A seat is access to the work, not to one file.
Settings
The logic is fixed. We do not tune parameters for individual accounts, because a member with private settings is buying a different product from everyone else and neither of us could tell you which one works.
What we do not do
No trading advice, no account management, no view on what you should trade or how much. We publish software and support the software.
Why Silex exists
Who is behind it
Silex is operated by one developer who designed, built, and trades Heptane with personal capital. The strategy and the systems surrounding it were developed in-house. Nothing was licensed, white-labelled, or repackaged from another vendor.
Silex exists because the automated trading market rarely gives buyers what they need to evaluate the product being sold. It sells the promise of passive income while withholding the evidence required to determine whether a strategy is durable, properly tested, or capable of surviving the conditions in which it performs worst. Without that information, the buyer is not evaluating the system. The buyer is evaluating the credibility of the person selling it.
Heptane was tested to a different standard before there was any intention to release it commercially. The work was not done to create a stronger sales argument. It was done because the developer intended to trade the strategy and needed evidence strong enough to justify risking personal capital. Confidence in the idea was never treated as a substitute for evidence.
That standard did not change when Heptane became a product. The complete performance report is provided before payment, losing trades are presented alongside winning trades, and every applicant can evaluate the strategy for fourteen days on their own account and infrastructure.
Where this goes
Heptane is the first strategy released by Silex. Membership revenue supports the research, development, testing, and real-money validation of the strategies that may follow. Every future release will be included for active members at no additional charge under either membership rate.
There is no public roadmap because Silex does not market unfinished research as a future product. A strategy will be announced only after it has been subjected to the same standard that existed before Heptane was ever offered for sale. It must be rigorously tested, fully analyzed, and traded with real capital before it becomes part of the membership.
Silex exists to offer automated trading software in the form the developer once looked for and could not find: rigorously tested, honestly documented, and open to verification before trust is required.
The platform
Everything we publish is written against the NinjaTrader 8 framework and runs inside it. We do not build for another platform and we do not recommend one.