by Tom Nunamaker | Mar 24, 2026 | Options trading
When a friend of mine told me he was going through the Condor Nest training, I was curious how quickly he'd actually be able to put it to work. Options strategies can be notoriously hard to learn in theory and even harder to execute in real market conditions. He put...
by Tom Nunamaker | Feb 19, 2026 | Futures trading, Trading
You ran a backtest. The equity curve goes up. The profit factor is above 1. You're ready to trade it live, right? Not so fast. A positive backtest is the beginning of the evaluation process, not the end. Most strategies with good-looking results are the product of...
by Tom Nunamaker | Feb 17, 2026 | Futures trading, Trading
There's a claim circulating in the NinjaTrader community that Strategy Analyzer backtests “can't be trusted” and that Market Replay is the only valid way to test a strategy. It sounds reasonable on the surface — Market Replay uses real tick data, so it...
by Tom Nunamaker | Feb 15, 2026 | Futures trading, Trading
If you trade more than one futures instrument — or you're thinking about it — correlation is one of the most important concepts you need to understand. It affects everything from risk management to position sizing to whether you're actually...
by Tom Nunamaker | Jan 31, 2026 | Options trading, Trading
I've traded more iron condors than I care to count. Thirty days to expiration, weekly, even same-day 0 DTE trades. The iron condor looks attractive on paper. High win rate. Defined risk. Collect premium and wait. Here's the problem nobody talks about until it happens...
