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 | Jul 2, 2025 | Futures trading, News, Options trading
Introducing the Goldilocks Autotrader for NinjaTrader After years of developing and testing automated trading systems, we're excited to announce the launch of our newest product – the Goldilocks Autotrader, specifically designed for Micro E-mini Gold futures trading....
by Tom Nunamaker | Jan 31, 2025 | Futures trading, News
As an APEX Trader Funding customer, I've always been annoyed with the active subscriptions display in the member dashboard. The problem is finding out what accounts are active and when they rebill and what the rebill is going to be. I wrote some code to solve this...
by Tom Nunamaker | Dec 1, 2024 | Futures trading, General, News, Options trading
People seem to be leaving Twitter (now X) in droves and many are heading towards Bluesky. What is Bluesky? Bluesky began in 2019 as a research initiative at Twitter. It was spun off to a independent company in 2021 and had it's initial Android release in April 2023....
