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 | 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...
