Cove Trader
A New York prop-firm trader who streams Nasdaq futures twice every weekday, publishes the backtests behind his setups and gives away the NinjaTrader tools he writes.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 24, 2026
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Cove Trader is a US futures trader and YouTuber who streams Nasdaq and S&P 500 futures live twice every weekday, trading a stack of prop-firm accounts. He writes his own NinjaTrader tools and gives them away, publishes daily gamma levels and backtest results at covetrader.com, and runs a free Discord of about 1,750 members.
Trades
Nasdaq futures
NQ · ES · gold on some days
Style
Intraday, data-tested
ICT concepts · gamma levels · order flow
Live since
June 2024
1,100+ streams · two every weekday
Based
United States
New York
YouTube
18.1K
subscribers · Oct 2026
NinjaTrader tools
19
written by him, free, source included
Streams live
Mon–Fri · 9 am–12 pm and 2–4:30 pm ET
Next stream: Mon–Fri · 9 am–12 pm and 2–4:30 pm ET · open channel
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BEST KNOWN FOR
Two live sessions a day, and the tools behind them
Cove Trader goes live twice every weekday, about 9 am to noon and 2 to 4:30 pm Eastern, trading Nasdaq and S&P futures across a stack of prop-firm accounts. Off stream he writes free tools, publishes daily gamma levels for NQ and ES and keeps a public scoreboard of every strategy he has tested. His two most-watched videos are both practical: a walkthrough of free copy trading across firms, and “How I Got 11 Prop Firm Payouts In 12 Days”, which passed 58,000 views in two weeks.
IN COVE'S WORDS
“I built these NinjaTrader tools for my own trading and then gave them away.”
YouTube, October 2026
“Most trading content online shows the winning screenshots and skips the losing months. We do the opposite.”
covetrader.com, About
“Failures stay on the board, because the failure rate is the base rate.”
covetrader.com, Scoreboard
Cove Trader's featured video
“How To Copy Trade With Ninja Trader For Free Across Multiple Prop Firms” · published Aug 25, 2024 · 40.8K views
Who is Cove Trader?
Plenty of prop-firm traders stream the market open. Cove Trader also builds much of what is on his screen. Between two live sessions every weekday he writes NinjaTrader add-ons, runs strategy ideas through a year of data and posts the results on his own site, failures included. His order-flow reader, his gamma levels and his trade copier all began as tools for his own accounts. Then he gave them away. So far he counts nineteen NinjaTrader 8 tools, all free with the source included, and nine of them are ready to download.
He publishes under the channel name and keeps the attention on the charts. The channel opened on 24 April 2024 with short recaps of two funded accounts. Two days later he posted the method he leaned on then, a 15-minute opening range breakout. His first live stream went out on 5 June 2024, billed as a chance to test his system, and morning sessions followed two days later. That August he filmed a walkthrough of copying trades for free across several prop firms in NinjaTrader. Still his most-watched tutorial, with more than 40,000 views, it pointed the way to the copier he would later write himself.
The trading is intraday Nasdaq futures, with the S&P 500 alongside and gold on some days. His stream titles spell out the toolkit: ICT concepts such as fair value gaps and their inversions, NQ gamma levels and order flow. The levels come from his GEX Desk, which rescales dealer gamma from SPY and QQQ options to futures each weekday before the open. The order flow comes from Cove Flow, a tape reader that stitches the pieces of a large order back into one. Trades are copied across a stack of evaluation and funded accounts, 38 of them in his recap of 1 October 2026.
The research is what sets the channel apart. Since July 2026 covetrader.com has run as a research blog, with a public scoreboard of every strategy he has backtested: survivors, ideas still in testing and outright failures. Tests carry realistic slippage over a full year, and the dead strategies stay on the board. He has also filmed a series, begun in May 2026, on automating TradingView strategies into NinjaTrader with Claude. In October he used it to run 32,400 backtests for a single video. Around the research sit a free Discord of about 1,750 members and a newsletter. His invite-only TradingView scripts are free to anyone who installs his CoveTrader Prop Firm Discount browser extension. There are even browser games built for the stream, from a rubber-duck race to Chat Royale, a raffle drawn from the live chat.
The schedule rarely moves. More than 1,100 live sessions have aired since June 2024. Through 2026 he has held to two a day, about 9 am to noon and 2 to 4:30 pm Eastern, with prop-firm account giveaways running through the week. He has competed in public too. In October 2025 he joined about twenty creators, among them Uncle Bugatti, Mighty Ox Trading and ProlongWealth, in TradeDay’s first Influencer Cup. On day nine he stood second on the leaderboard, and in September 2026 he announced a win in a Lucid Trading competition. He is worth following for the combination: a working prop trader who shows the whole session, and a builder who hands viewers his own tools and numbers.
How Cove trades
Gamma levels, gaps and the tape
Cove Trader trades NQ and ES intraday, in a morning session that covers the open and an afternoon session that runs into the close. Before the bell he has the day’s gamma map: the flip level, the call wall above and the put wall below. The levels are rescaled from SPY and QQQ options and posted free each weekday, and his site calls them context, not signals. On the chart he works with ICT-style structure, from fair value gaps and their inversions to higher-timeframe candles and SMT divergence, all framed against the opening range and the initial balance.
Order flow sits beside the levels. Cove Flow, the tape reader he wrote, groups the slices of a large order back into one and marks sweeps, absorption, imbalance and pressure live on the chart. Entries are copied across his stack of evaluation and funded accounts, so a single setup can count on many accounts at once. With automated strategies, he has described switching one off ahead of an FOMC release rather than trusting it through the news.
Tested before it is traded
Off camera, his ideas go through a testing routine. They are written as TradingView strategies or NinjaTrader code, run over a year or more of data with slippage, then retested out of sample. Most candidates fail at that stage, he writes, as strong 90-day results fade over a full year. The one-minute NQ breakout of the opening range and initial balance survived, and in his published test it showed a profit factor near 1.7 over 365 days, costs included. His session statistics give three years of base rates for initial-balance breaks, gap fills and opening ranges, each with its sample size and a 95% confidence interval.
The same discipline shapes how he treats a result. In one video he describes passing an evaluation on the first try with a single strategy from his free indicator page. He tells viewers to stay with a plan they have tested rather than chase someone else’s screenshot. Blindspot, another of his tools, reads a trader’s own NinjaTrader archive to show what the results actually say. As with every trader profiled here, the approach is described from his own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
See how the wider prop-trading field is positioned in NQ while you study a method like this: MarketFramework's Positioning Edge shows live long/short splits across ES, NQ, MES and MNQ from real evaluation and funded accounts, and Prop Backtest scores strategies against prop-firm rules.
Cove Trader's career timeline
Opens the Cove Trader YouTube channel on 24 April with recaps of two funded accounts, and two days later posts his 15-minute opening range breakout strategy. source
Goes live for the first time on 5 June, “testing my system”; morning sessions begin two days later. source
Publishes a free NinjaTrader copy-trading walkthrough in August that passes 40,000 views and remains his top tutorial; opens his X account the same month. source
Competes in TradeDay’s first Influencer Cup in October, a month-long contest among about twenty trading creators, and sits second on the day-nine leaderboard. source
Starts a series in May on automating TradingView and NinjaTrader strategies with Claude. source
Establishes covetrader.com as a research blog on 31 July with a public strategy scoreboard; free indicators, a trade copier and daily GEX levels follow in August and September. source
Announces a win in a Lucid Trading competition on 16 September; publishes his NinjaTrader tools page at the end of the month. source
Releases “How I Got 11 Prop Firm Payouts In 12 Days” on 10 October; within two weeks it passes 58,000 views and becomes his most-watched video. source
Cove Trader's videos
LATEST
How to Build GREAT Futures Trading Strategies Using TradingView
Live Futures Trading | Prop Giveaway | Payouts Incoming | $NQ $ES
Live Futures Trading | Prop Giveaway | Payouts Incoming | $NQ $ES
Live Futures Trading | Prop Giveaway | Payouts Locked In | $NQ $ES
Live Futures Trading | Prop Giveaway | Payouts Locked In | $NQ $ES
Live Futures Trading | Prop Giveaway | GEC Levels + Order Flow | $NQ $ES | ICT Trading | Oct 21st
Free Ninja Trader Tools You Need TO See! GEX Levels, Order Flow, Odds Calculator, Webhooks And More
I Ran 32,400 Backtests With Claude And This Happened
MOST POPULAR
How I Got 11 Prop Firm Payouts In 12 Days
Figure as stated by creatorHow To Copy Trade With Ninja Trader For Free Across Multiple Prop Firms
I Passed A Prop Firm Account First Try With One Strategy - Watch Till The End
How To Copy Trade In Take Profit Trader For Free - Use Code COVETRADER
FREE TradingView Indicators - Access To Futures Ones Also - Works With Ninja Trader
Prop firms Cove works with
His September and October 2026 stream descriptions also list Topstep among the firms whose accounts he trades live. A 30 September 2026 upload names Lucid Trading and MyFundedFutures as firms he trades. He discloses his partner relationships in his video descriptions.
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
COVE TRADER: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Cove Trader trade?
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ) and S&P 500 futures (ES) intraday, with gold on some days. He reads ICT-style structure, such as fair value gaps and their inversions, against daily gamma levels and order flow. Trades are copied across a stack of prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts.
Who is Cove Trader?
A US futures trader and YouTuber who publishes under his channel name and lists NY as his location on X. He opened the channel in April 2024 and streams live twice every weekday, roughly 9 am to noon and 2 to 4:30 pm Eastern. More than 1,100 of his live sessions are on the channel.
What does Cove Trader offer his community?
A free Discord of about 1,750 members, prop-firm account giveaways on stream, a newsletter and a free toolkit at covetrader.com. The toolkit includes NinjaTrader 8 add-ons he wrote, such as the Cove Flow order-flow reader, GEX Desk gamma levels and a trade copier. His invite-only TradingView scripts unlock with his free CoveTrader Prop Firm Discount browser extension.
What is Cove Trader’s net worth?
Cove Trader has not disclosed his net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firms does Cove Trader use?
His stream descriptions say he trades Take Profit Trader, Apex Trader Funding, Topstep, Bulenox and Tradeify accounts live each day. A 30 September 2026 upload adds Lucid Trading and MyFundedFutures. He offers code COVETRADER at the firms he partners with, and his October 2026 descriptions carry an Apex Trader Funding partner link.
SOURCES
- Cove Trader: YouTube channelaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- covetrader.com: Aboutaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- covetrader.com: Strategy scoreboardaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- covetrader.com: NinjaTrader toolsaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- YouTube, 4 October 2026: Free NinjaTrader Tools Every Futures Trader Needs (description with tools, schedule and partner link)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- YouTube, 13 October 2026 stream (description with firms, schedule and code)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- TradeDay on X: Influencer Cup, day 9 results (October 2025)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- Cove Trader newsletter, 13 October 2026: Apex flash sale with code COVETRADERaccessed Oct 24, 2026
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