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That Viral Strategy Dashboard Probably Won’t Survive a Real Backtest
A strategy dashboard made the rounds recently claiming +124R over a few months, a 61% win rate, a profit factor above 2, and a maximum drawdown of about six points of R. The equity curve was a nearly straight line. We rebuilt the strategy rule-for-rule and ran it through an honest backtest. The result: a…
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Initial Balance Basics: What the First Hour Really Tells You
The initial balance — the high and low of the first hour of regular trading, 9:30 to 10:30 New York time — is one of the oldest ideas in market profile. It is also one of the few session structures where the statistics are strong enough, and stable enough, to build rules around. We pulled…
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The Opening Range Breakout That Survived a Year of Slippage
Most one-minute futures strategies die the moment you charge them for slippage. Backtest a scalp on NQ with perfect fills and it prints money; add a tick of slippage per side and commissions, and the equity curve rolls over. So when a 1-minute opening range breakout kept a profit factor around 1.7 across a full…
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My Top Prop Firm Strategies When Trading Futures
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Watch Claude AI Make A Profitable Ninja Trader Strategy – Can Use Tradingview Also
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Today’s GEX Levels
Aug 31, 2026 · gamma regime: NEGATIVE
NQ
Flip 29,482 · Call Wall 30,080
Put Wall 28,844 · HVL 28,844
ES
Flip 7,731 · Call Wall 7,830
Put Wall 7,680 · HVL 7,680
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