NIGIRI

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Nigiri is a specialist USDJPY M15 cBot created for traders who want systematic exposure to directional market opportunities without having to monitor charts or make discretionary decisions.

It was built specifically around USDJPY rather than adapted from a generic multi-market template. Every part of the system, from opportunity selection to exposure control and campaign management, was developed for this market environment.

VALIDATED ACROSS 68 MONTHS

Reference cTrader backtest:

• 1,528 closed trades
• Profit factor: 1.68
• 53 of 68 positive months
• Every completed calendar year positive
• 2026 YTD also positive
• 55.4% winning trades
• Both long and short components profitable
• Maximum equity drawdown: 29.25%
• Maximum losing sequence: 8 trades

Test period: 1 January 2021 to 28 August 2026
Starting balance: USD 2,000
Reference leverage: 1:30
Historical data: cTrader Tick data from server
Commission and swap included

## IMPORTANT ACCOUNT REQUIREMENT

Nigiri requires a hedged trading account with exactly 1:30 leverage. This is a mandatory technical requirement, not a recommended setting. The cBot will not open positions when used with any other leverage. Before purchasing, please confirm that your broker allows an account leverage of 1:30.

For results closest to the published reference backtest, run Nigiri on USDJPY M15 from an IC Markets live-account environment using Tick data from server. Results from demo servers or other brokers may differ due to different price feeds and symbol specifications ##

The reference test used dynamic equity-based sizing and continuous compounding. Its nominal account growth should not be interpreted as a fixed return forecast.

WHY TRADERS CHOOSE NIGIRI

Built specifically for USDJPY

Nigiri concentrates on one symbol and one timeframe. It does not attempt to apply the same universal rules to unrelated markets with different volatility, liquidity and execution characteristics.

Adaptive long and short participation

The system can participate in developing directional moves, selected retracements and qualified defensive opportunities. It is not permanently biased toward one market direction.

Campaign-level position management

Nigiri manages its positions as a coordinated campaign rather than as unrelated individual orders. Exposure, profit protection and exits are evaluated in the context of the complete open portfolio.

Opportunity-driven additional entries

Nigiri is not a fixed-grid or traditional martingale system. Additional positions are not opened simply because an earlier trade is losing. Every entry must qualify as a new market opportunity and pass execution, exposure and margin checks.

Dynamic equity-based sizing

Position size adapts to the account equity and current campaign exposure. As the account changes, the system can automatically adjust its operating scale within broker and margin constraints.

Built-in execution protection

Before submitting an order, Nigiri evaluates conditions such as spread, available margin, expected execution quality and current portfolio exposure. When market conditions are unsuitable, it can remain flat.

Layered risk management

The system combines position-level protection with portfolio monitoring, profit protection, adverse-move defence and emergency equity safeguards.

Restart-ready operation

Nigiri restores its operational state after a restart, reloads the required market history and validates the trading environment before resuming normal operation.

Clear on-chart status

The integrated dashboard displays the current operating state, market context, open exposure, account equity, drawdown and protection status without revealing proprietary signal calculations.

WHAT NIGIRI MANAGES

• Long and short USDJPY opportunities
• Market-state and opportunity qualification
• Dynamic position sizing
• Portfolio-level exposure
• Coordinated entries and exits
• Partial profit harvesting
• Extended position management
• Spread and margin validation
• Strategic and emergency protection
• Drawdown monitoring
• Restart-state recovery
• Trading-environment validation

WHEN THERE IS NO QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY

Nigiri does not need to remain constantly active.

The system may stay flat while waiting for conditions that satisfy its complete decision process. A period without a position does not mean that the cBot has stopped working. It means that no opportunity currently meets its requirements.

RECOMMENDED ENVIRONMENT

• Symbol: USDJPY
• Chart timeframe: M15
• Account type: Hedged
• Account currency: USD
• Suggested starting balance: 500$+
• Reference leverage: 1:30
• Order type: Market
• Trading frequency: Medium
• Recommended use: Dedicated account or no unrelated USDJPY positions

The system has not been validated for prop-firm rule compliance.

EXTENDED DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

Nigiri was evaluated using:

• Continuous multi-year backtesting
• Individual calendar-year analysis
• Monthly consistency analysis
• Strategy-component ablation
• Timing sensitivity tests
• Closed-bar and intrabar execution comparisons
• Alternate timeframe perturbations
• Spread and margin diagnostics
• Restart and state-recovery verification

Changes were retained only when they improved the complete system rather than one selected fragment of historical data.

TRY BEFORE USING THE PAID EDITION

The trial edition supports:

• Demo-account operation
• Complete backtesting
• Strategy observation
• Dashboard and environment validation

Real-money execution is available only in the paid edition.

SUPPORT AND UPDATES

Purchasers receive future Nigiri updates through cTrader Store at no additional product charge.

Support covers installation, environment validation, operational status and reproducible technical issues. It does not include personalised investment advice, guaranteed performance or individual parameter optimisation.

Start with the trial, reproduce the reference configuration using your broker's historical data and evaluate how Nigiri behaves before considering live deployment.

Historical results do not guarantee future performance.