Quant Developer Needed - NQ Futures Strategy Development, Backtesting & NinjaTrader Automation

I am an experienced futures trader looking for a quantitative developer to help design, test, and automate a futures trading strategy for NQ/MNQ futures. This is NOT a crypto bot project and NOT a copy/paste AI coding project. The goal is to build a robust, data-driven trading system that can be: * Backtested * Walk-forward tested * Optimized * Paper traded * Automated within NinjaTrader Scope Phase 1 - Strategy Research Review and improve an existing strategy idea using: * Market Structure * Volume * VWAP * Order Flow * Opening Range * Momentum * Trend Following * Mean Reversion Open to suggestions. Phase 2 - Backtesting Requirements: * Minimum 2 years historical data * Include commissions * Include slippage assumptions * In-sample testing * Out-of-sample testing * Walk-forward analysis Deliver: * Net Profit * Profit Factor * Max Drawdown * Win Rate * Sharpe Ratio * Average Trade * Expectancy Phase 3 - Automation Develop: * NinjaScript strategy OR * Python strategy with broker integration Features: * Entry Rules * Exit Rules * Position Sizing * Daily Loss Limit * News Filter (optional) * Trading Hours Filter Deliverables Must provide: * Full source code * Backtest reports * Optimization reports * Documentation * Installation guide I retain full ownership of all code and intellectual property. Preferred Skills * Futures Trading * Quantitative Research * NinjaTrader * NinjaScript * Python * Tradovate API * Rithmic API * CQG API * Statistical Analysis Please Include When applying, provide: 1. Previous futures trading projects 2. Sample backtest report 3. Experience with NinjaTrader 4. Your approach to avoiding overfitting 5. Estimated timeline