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Futures Trader using Algorithmic

An Open Letter to the Struggling Futures Trader: What I Built and Why

Feb 20, 2026

The Prop Firm Trader's Daily Routine for ES Futures

Apr 12, 2026

Trailing Drawdown Rules Explained: Why Structure Beats Impulse

Apr 10, 2026

Drawdown Management for Funded Futures Accounts: A Quantitative Framework

Apr 8, 2026

How to Pass a Futures Prop Firm Evaluation With Structure, Not Luck

Apr 7, 2026

Best Indicators for Prop Firm Futures Trading

Apr 6, 2026

The Index Futures Research Behind the Algorithmic Suite

Apr 3, 2026

How We Built a 16-Point Validation Suite Before Releasing a Single Indicator

Apr 1, 2026

Bonferroni Correction: Why Testing 45 Combinations Requires Statistical Discipline

Mar 30, 2026

Signal Quality: How We Verify Every Level in the Framework Independently Contributes

Mar 28, 2026

Autocorrelation, Stationarity, and Why Your Equity Curve Matters

Mar 25, 2026

The Best Hour to Trade ES Futures: What 18 Years of Data Shows

Mar 24, 2026

Transaction Costs in Futures Trading: Slippage, Commission, and What Survives

Mar 22, 2026

Subsample Stability: What Happens When You Drop 60% of the Data

Mar 20, 2026

Can Machine Learning Beat the Base Rate? What Random Forest and XGBoost Found

Mar 17, 2026

18 Years, 18 Different Markets: Year-by-Year Performance of a Futures Framework

Mar 16, 2026

Does This Strategy Work in Every Market Regime? Testing Across 5 Volatility Environments

Mar 14, 2026

Win Rate Is Not Enough: The Full Battery of Metrics Behind a Futures Trading Framework

Mar 12, 2026

Sharpe Ratio, Sortino Ratio, and What Risk-Adjusted Returns Actually Mean in Futures

Mar 10, 2026

Maximum Adverse Excursion: How Much Heat Do Winning Trades Actually Take?

Mar 8, 2026

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What Is Algorithmic Futures Trading? A Deep Look at Algorithmic.io

Mar 6, 2026

Monte Carlo Simulation Applied to Index Futures: What 2,000 Permutations Revealed

Mar 6, 2026

Walk-Forward Testing: How We Validated 18 Years of Futures Data Out-of-Sample

Mar 4, 2026

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Algorithmic Midnight-Grid and Turning Points Accuracy on March 3, 2026: Live ES, NQ, and YM Futures Breakdown

Mar 3, 2026

The Retail Traps in Futures Trading: Why Most Traders Stay Stuck

Feb 26, 2026

Chart Screenshot Cleaner Trading

Why ICT, SMC, and Retail Concepts Break Down in Index Futures Trading

Feb 25, 2026

Futures Trading Without The Noise

Futures Trading Without Noise: a repeatable daily process for index futures.

Feb 24, 2026

Key Levels

Key Levels in Index Futures: The Midnight Session Roadmap I Built From Research

Feb 22, 2026

Futures Trader using Algorithmic

An Open Letter to the Struggling Futures Trader: What I Built and Why

Feb 20, 2026