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Before you buy
Six things worth having ready before you subscribe, so the first week is spent trading rather than troubleshooting.
· 7 min read
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The main review covers what Hexgo is and what it costs. This page is the practical half: what to have in place before you start, and what to do with the first week once you do.
Most of it is quick. The one item worth checking before anything else is the first, because it is the requirement everything else sits on.
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Hexgo is a NinjaTrader 8 add-on, and NinjaTrader 8 is the one requirement that has to be true before anything else matters. If you already run it, the fit is immediate — the strategies import into a platform you know, and there is nothing new to learn about charting, order entry or broker connection.
What to do
Check that you are on NinjaTrader 8 before you subscribe. If you are, everything else on this list is straightforward.
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Three things: NinjaTrader 8, a futures broker account connected to it, and the recommended starting capital in that account. The platform runs on NinjaTrader's free tier — automated execution happens on Hexgo's servers rather than on your machine — so there is no licence to buy and no VPS to rent.
What to do
Have the broker account funded and connected before your first day, so the subscription starts on a platform that is already working.
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No. The recommended starting capital is money that stays in your account and remains yours; you can withdraw it. It belongs in the month-one budget because it needs to be available, not because it is spent. What makes the figure reachable is the market list — micro index contracts are a fraction of the notional size of the full-size ones, so the same strategy runs at a size a smaller account can carry.
What to do
Budget the subscription as the cost and the capital as capital. They are different lines.
04
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The window is there to prove the product works on your setup. Seven days is comfortably enough to confirm the strategies install, the broker connection holds, orders go in correctly, and the system recovers cleanly if the data feed drops. Support is part of that test too — the reviews on this site are mostly about the first week, and setup help is the thing they mention most.
What to do
Run the full install in the first two days, not the last two. That leaves room to use support and still be inside the window.
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Conservatively, and by default. Positions are sized at a fixed small fraction of the account with stop losses attached, rather than left for you to configure on day one. That is the setting you would want to see on an automated system, and it is the one it ships with.
What to do
Leave the defaults alone for the first week. They are the conservative configuration, and week one is for verifying the plumbing.
06
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On the vendor's results page, per strategy. It publishes maximum drawdown and largest loss alongside the profit rather than leading with a return on its own, badges backtested entries as backtests so simulated runs cannot be mistaken for executed orders, and states in its own words that past performance does not guarantee future results. That is a fuller disclosure than this market usually offers.
What to do
Sign in and read it per strategy rather than in aggregate. The drawdown column is the one that tells you what a strategy felt like to hold.
The short version
Be on NinjaTrader 8 with a funded futures broker account connected before you subscribe. Treat the capital as capital and the subscription as the cost. Do the install early in the refund window rather than late, leave the default sizing alone while you verify the plumbing, and read the results page one strategy at a time.
Do that and week one is a setup exercise with a known shape, which is the most useful thing a pre-purchase page can give you.
Cost
The quoted price is $49. The useful question is what the bill looks like once the platform, the data feed and the server are added — and for this product the answer is unusual.
· 5 min read
Track record
It publishes maximum drawdown next to the profit, badges backtests as backtests, and states its own caveat. Here is every field it shows you.
· 6 min read