Every decision follows a defined, repeatable set of rules. The discipline of the process, not discretion in the moment, drives how we trade.
KIBS and its underlying Zone Fingerprint System were built in-house. No off-the-shelf tool matches the design, and the edge stays ours.
Position and stop logic are built into the system itself. Capital preservation is a design constraint, not an afterthought.
IGS Global develops and operates systematic trading strategies for liquid futures markets, centered on KIBS, the KB Intelligent Breakout System, built on NinjaTrader and refined through successive generations of design, testing, and live evaluation. Markets are noisy and emotional; a well-built system is neither. By codifying every entry, exit, and sizing decision into tested rules, we capture repeatable structure while holding risk within strict, predefined limits.
KIBS executes a defined set of rules the same way every time. Removing discretion from individual trades removes the emotional swings that erode performance. And what gets measured gets refined.
At the core of KIBS is the Zone Fingerprint System, a custom, session-anchored method for characterizing market structure using wick-to-body ratios and zone-change detection. The originality is the edge, and we keep it in-house.
Risk control is engineered into the strategy rather than layered on top. Stop logic, position sizing, and exposure limits are part of the system's design, with the explicit goal of protecting capital across market environments.
The same disciplined cycle that built KIBS keeps improving it, the same way the largest systematic funds operate.
Form and refine hypotheses about market structure.
Codify rules into a testable, systematic strategy.
Evaluate across historical and live conditions.
Measure results and improve continuously.
IGS Global is a trading-technology company founded by Justin Leary to build institutional-grade systematic strategies for the futures markets. The firm grew out of a long-running focus on algorithmic strategy development on NinjaTrader, designing, testing, and trading rules-based systems across instruments including the Micro E-mini S&P 500, Russell 2000, and Dow. That work led to KIBS, our flagship strategy, and to the proprietary Zone Fingerprint System at its core.
We are independent and founder-led. That keeps us nimble, able to research, adapt, and act faster than larger organizations, and it keeps us aligned with the people we work with.
IGS Global is executing a phased plan through 2027 spanning strategy development, track-record building, licensing, and talent. A verified performance record will be published here following KIBS V1's live relaunch.
Founded IGS Global and leads research, development, and risk. It is the long-running NinjaTrader strategy work that became KIBS.
Oversees finance and operations, building the structure that lets IGS scale toward a fully licensed, regulated investment firm.
V1 has now been fully optimized and successfully completed walk-forward validation. We identified its key limitation, its lack of market context, and built a solution.
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We are a small, founder-led team that values rigor, curiosity, and ownership. As IGS Global grows, we'll look for people excited by hard problems in systematic trading and trading technology.
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