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All seven engines, one add-on, one license. Orthant Micro 1.0.0 · 716 KB

Your license arrives by email, usually the same day. The engines will not run until it is issued — install and read your guide in the meantime.

Chrome or Edge will almost certainly warn you about this file, and may call it “dangerous” or “suspicious”. That is uncomfortable, so here is exactly what is happening and why. You should not have to take “trust us” for an answer.

Four things about this file trip the automated checks, and all four are unavoidable for what it is

1. It is a program, not a document. Inside the zip is one compiled .dll holding all seven engines. Browsers treat executable code the same way regardless of what it does — and being zipped does not soften that. A zip hides its contents from inspection, which counts against a file rather than for it.
2. The code is deliberately obfuscated. The strings and logic inside are encrypted so the strategies cannot be decompiled and copied. This is the honest reason for most of the suspicion: malware hides from analysis the same way. An automated scanner sees an unreadable binary and cannot tell the difference between protecting intellectual property and concealing something. We are not willing to ship readable strategy code — that is the product — so this one is permanent.
3. It is not code-signed. A certificate is what puts a publisher name on a download instead of “Unknown publisher”. It is an annual cost and we would rather put that into the engines until enough people are using this to justify it. Being straight with you: it is on the list, it is not done.
4. Nobody has downloaded it yet. Reputation is the biggest factor of the four. A file thousands have downloaded without incident stops being flagged; a new publisher has no history at all. There is no shortcut — it is earned slowly, and early customers see the worst of it.

Would emailing it help? Honestly, no, and we would rather say so than pretend. Most email providers block or strip program files inside zip attachments, so it often will not arrive at all — and it would still be the same unsigned file landing on the same machine, so Windows would still check it. If you want it by email anyway, ask and we will send it, but expect the same prompts.

What you can verify instead of trusting us: check the SHA-256 below against your downloaded file — it proves the file is byte-for-byte what we published and was not altered in transit. Then upload the zip to VirusTotal, which runs it past around seventy scanners at once. Expect a small number of generic “packed” or “obfuscated” flags for the reason in point 2, and no named malware. If you ever see a specific named threat, do not use the file and tell us immediately.

To keep the file

Chrome words this two different ways depending on your Safe Browsing setting, so you will see one of these:

1. Chrome — “Download suspicious file?” with only two choices, Delete from history and Download suspicious file. Choose Download suspicious file. That is Chrome’s wording for “keep it”. It is worded alarmingly and there is no gentler button in this version.
2. Chrome — “not commonly downloaded”. Open Downloads (Ctrl + J), click the menu next to the file, choose Keep.
3. Edge — open Downloads (Ctrl + J), hover the file, click the … menu, choose Keep, then Show more › Keep anyway.
4. Windows SmartScreen, if it appears when you open the zip — click More info, then Run anyway.

Would rather not click past a warning at all? Reply and we will email you the file directly.

Prefer to verify it yourself? Open PowerShell and run Get-FileHash Orthant-Micro-1.0.0.zip. It should return:

D4D5C7E53EFD186FC5E1C851FF3024A0901BE9C7512C62498D1CE7BEA4406961

If it does not match, do not use the file — email [email protected].

1. Import the add-on. In NinjaTrader®: Tools › Import › NinjaScript Add-On… and select the zip you just downloaded.
2. Restart NinjaTrader®. Not optional — the strategies will not appear reliably until you do.
3. Open your engine's guide below and follow page 1 for the chart setup.
4. Run it on simulation first. Judge the machinery, not the money — one month is not long enough to judge a profit figure honestly.

Add an engine to its chart. If your license is active, its status panel appears in the top-left corner within a few seconds — the Orthant mark, the version, the engine name, and a clock that ticks.

Panel there? You are licensed and running. The clock is the proof it is alive — if it keeps ticking on a quiet market, nothing is wrong, there is simply no trade to take.

No panel at all? That is the license, not a bug. NinjaTrader® does not run a strategy it cannot license — it does not warn you, it simply does nothing, which looks exactly like a broken install. Nothing you change in the settings will fix it. Give us a shout and we will check it.