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 | Jul 18, 2019 | Options trading
Ophir Gottlieb, CEO of Capital Market Laboratories, is speaking next week about their TradeMachine. I looked at the TradeMachine several years ago while it was relatively new. In the past several years, it has matured into a very powerful back trading and alerting...
