Clara Core works on paper: a 70.53% win rate over seven years, a profit factor above 1.6. It looks good. That is exactly why we owe you the truth about what it is.
Clara Core has a negative risk-to-reward ratio. It wins often and small, and when it loses, the average loss is larger than the average win. The math comes out positive over seven years because the win rate is high enough to carry it: a real, but fragile, edge. When the win rate holds, the account climbs steadily. When it slips, losses come back faster than the gains came in. We would rather show you that plainly than sell you around it.
So we did not charge for it. A negative risk-to-reward strategy carried by a high win rate is the single most common product sold in this space, at prices in the thousands: show the high win rate and the winning streak, leave out the big losses, close the sale. The fragility goes unsaid because it does not sell.
We would not sell a strategy like that, no matter how good the backtest looks. A backtest shows what happened. It cannot promise the win rate holds. So we did the opposite: Clara Core is free, and everything about it is public, including how it behaves when it is losing.
Clara Systems exists because we spent years being the customer. We paid for the indicators, the signal services, the turnkey systems that overpromised and underdelivered. Most of this industry is built to sell you something, not to make you profitable. The limitations and the risk rarely make the page, and when the system fails, they blame the market. The market was always going to be unpredictable. That is the exact reality you paid them to navigate.
We have nothing to sell you right now. No product, no upsell, no hidden tier. Clara Core is free because releasing it this way, every number public, weaknesses included, is the point.
There is a deeper reason, too. A high win rate with a negative risk-to-reward ratio can work, but for what we build next we prefer the opposite shape: a lower win rate with a positive risk-to-reward, where the average win outsizes the average loss. That structure holds up better through changing markets, because it does not depend on the win rate staying high. Clara Core does not fit that preference, which is exactly why it is the one we give away rather than sell. It is an honest, useful, fully documented tool, and the clearest possible demonstration of how we operate. Whatever comes next will be held to the same standard: everything shown, in full, before you decide anything.
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1. Download Clara Core. A NinjaTrader strategy file, free, delivered instantly on the download form.
2. Import it in NinjaTrader. Tools, Import, NinjaScript Add-On. Then set your risk per trade and your risk cap (max 200 points). Those are the main decisions; everything else is automatic.
3. Backtest it yourself. NinjaTrader's backtester is free and goes back to MNQ's launch in May 2019, the same window published on this site. Verify every number against your own run.
4. Run it on a simulation account first. See the execution live before any real money is involved.
Time from download to first trade depends on your setup. If NinjaTrader is already installed and your account is connected, you could be running the same day. Starting from zero, most users are up and running within a day. Full setup documentation is on this website, with video guides publishing on YouTube as they are ready.
Full Setup Guide →Fully automated NinjaTrader strategy
Multiple account connections supported
All performance data, distributions, and Monte Carlo shown in full
Strategy updates, once a year, free
To keep this simple, we do not offer:
1-on-1 support or onboarding calls
Custom settings or strategy modifications
Email or chat support
We do not run a community, chat room, or signal group.
Community environments introduce noise: emotional reactions to losses, inconsistent risk usage, and manual trades mixed into automated execution. This breaks consistency.
Clarity comes from data and execution, not opinions.
The main decisions are your risk per trade and your risk cap (limited to 200 points). We provide guidelines based on historical data.
Everything you need is documented and publicly available on this website.
Partnerships & professional inquiries: if you are a developer, fund, or service provider whose work aligns with how we operate, we are open to conversations. Reach us at hello@clarasystems.io
Everything about Clara Core is public, with no subscription, no trial, and no signup required to read any of it:
FastPass evaluation tool (free; currently in testing)
Complete seven-year performance data
Setup guides and documentation
YouTube video guides, being added; until then the Setup Guide covers every step
Complete trade-by-trade P&L logs
Strategy explanation and risk disclosure
Trade journal: track daily sim vs live results to measure consistency and catch deviations early
No calls. No demos. You can review every number before making a decision.
Most services in this space show you their best month. Here is every year. May 2019 through June 2026, for all six risk models, with the 200-point risk cap applied.
*2019 starts May 6, MNQ's first trading day. **2026 covers January through June only. In some years a smaller model out-earns a larger one (2020, 2022): minimum contract sizing rounds position size differently per model.
$300 model, the reference: $54,071 net over the May 2019 – June 2026 period, maximum drawdown $1,406, measured at the worst point, including the dip while a position is open. Win rate 70.53%, profit factor 1.611.
Single account. Historical backtested data. Results are not guaranteed, and hypothetical results have inherent limitations. Past performance does not predict future results.
The drawdown figures reflect historical backtest results. Future drawdowns may be larger depending on market conditions, deployment timing, and the risk model selected, and because the strategy has a negative risk-to-reward ratio, position sizing matters more than anything else.
View Full Performance Data →Ask for the following:
Full trade-by-trade log
Monthly breakdown across all years, not highlights
Backtest with fees included
Exact risk per trade disclosed
Everything listed above is available on this website for Clara Core, free, right now.
This is not a service built on support, communities, or signals.
It is a system.
The trading space makes it easy to sell to someone looking for a solution. When you are new to this, it is easy to believe a strategy is the answer. What you actually need is an edge, and to trust that edge, you need data behind it.
Everything on this website is that data. The drawdown-first approach, the risk model framework, the scaling guidance: these are not sales tools. They are the principles behind consistent execution. They apply to any strategy.
Before you trust any automated strategy, this one included, ask for the full trade log, the monthly breakdown across all years, the backtest with fees, and the exact risk per trade. If that data does not exist or is not shared freely, you are being shown a number without the story behind it. For Clara Core, all of it is on this website.
If you are ready to execute a structured process and let data guide your decisions, Clara Core is free to download and built for that.
If not, the information here is still worth understanding.
A final round of site corrections is in progress. Data, downloads, and page formatting on desktop and mobile are being fine-tuned. If something looks off, it is being corrected.