{
  "name": "Argonaut Edge",
  "status": "pre-launch demo",
  "last_updated": "2026-10-08",
  "category": "order-flow strategy research software for futures traders",
  "one_sentence": "Argonaut Edge turns visual order-flow observations into named, versioned, machine-testable strategy specifications and validates them on prepared historical market data.",
  "operator": {
    "legal_name": "Heritage Jewelers LLC",
    "address": {
      "street": "1001 S Main St, Suite 600",
      "city": "Kalispell",
      "region": "MT",
      "postal_code": "59901",
      "country": "US"
    }
  },
  "customers": [
    "independent futures traders",
    "professional futures traders",
    "small trading research teams",
    "systematic discretionary traders"
  ],
  "customer_pains": [
    "Historical tick data is expensive to acquire and difficult to normalize.",
    "Visual patterns are difficult to explain precisely enough to backtest.",
    "Generic backtesters do not model order-flow context and lifecycle.",
    "Manual chart review misses occurrences and introduces hindsight and selection bias.",
    "Headline performance can hide regime dependence, concentration, and drawdown risk."
  ],
  "solution": [
    "controlled access to prepared historical NQ research data",
    "an order-flow-native strategy vocabulary",
    "EdgeSpec pattern digitization",
    "full-archive replay and controlled parameter tests",
    "regime, concentration, drawdown, and Monte Carlo diagnostics",
    "AI-assisted stop-loss, take-profit, breakeven, and trailing research by market regime",
    "optional realtime rule-state monitoring and alerts"
  ],
  "order_flow_concepts": [
    "Big Trades Profile",
    "fresh Big Buy and Big Sell zones",
    "absorption",
    "initiative flow",
    "trapped participants",
    "virgin levels",
    "Value Area",
    "POC",
    "HVN",
    "LVN",
    "ETH and RTH context",
    "acceptance",
    "rejection",
    "retest lifecycle",
    "breakout",
    "reversal"
  ],
  "edgespec": {
    "status": "working product name pending trademark clearance",
    "definition": "A named, versioned, machine-testable specification of an order-flow pattern.",
    "fields": [
      "name",
      "source event",
      "market context",
      "trigger",
      "invalidation",
      "risk model",
      "historical evidence",
      "research state"
    ],
    "examples": [
      "Fresh Buy Reclaim",
      "Virgin Zone First Touch",
      "Trapped Seller Release",
      "HVN Failure Drive"
    ]
  },
  "data": {
    "market": "NQ futures",
    "planned_history": "2010 to present",
    "delivery": "controlled in-platform research access",
    "license_status": "subject to final exchange historical-distribution licensing",
    "live_data": "separate exchange entitlement layer",
    "raw_file_resale": false
  },
  "business_model": {
    "type": "monthly and annual software subscription",
    "plans": [
      { "name": "Observer", "illustrative_monthly_usd": 0 },
      { "name": "Researcher", "illustrative_monthly_usd": 59 },
      { "name": "Live Lab", "illustrative_monthly_usd": 129 }
    ]
  },
  "not_offered": [
    "guaranteed returns",
    "black-box trading signals",
    "standalone raw exchange data downloads",
    "autonomous execution in the initial product"
  ],
  "contact": "research@argonautedge.com",
  "canonical_url": "https://argonautedge.com/"
}