Plain-English writing on the things I actually do all day — automating strategies in NinjaTrader 8, staying inside prop firm rules, and reading backtests honestly. No hype, no income promises: education first, same as everything else on this site.
OCTOBER 2026The four releases worth building your trading week around, what each one actually does to ES and NQ, and how my News Calendar auto-blocks the danger windows.
SEPTEMBER 2026The days-to-fund math prop traders should run before buying an eval — why average-per-day lies, how drawdown gates everything, and how I estimate it from backtest data.
SEPTEMBER 2026Running a backtest in NinjaTrader 8's Strategy Analyzer is easy. Reading one honestly is the skill — here's how I read mine without fooling myself.
AUGUST 2026What micro futures are, how the six CME micros differ, and why the small contract size is the right scale for automation, small accounts, and prop firm evals.
AUGUST 2026Fully automated, semi-automated, manual — where the line sits, why prop firms enforce it, and what supervised automation looks like in practice.
JULY 2026What an overnight gap actually is, why gaps tend to fill, when fading them goes wrong, and the filters that keep the bad days survivable.
JULY 2026 · UPDATED QUARTERLYThe automation rules at Apex, Topstep, and MyFundedFutures in plain English — what's allowed, what gets accounts flagged, and how I stay inside the lines.
JULY 2026What the opening range is, why most breakouts fail, and the design decisions that matter when you hand the setup to an automated strategy.
JULY 2026Import the .zip, compile, add to a chart, enable — plus the four errors that trip almost everyone the first time, and the fixes.
New articles land roughly every two weeks. The Discord hears about each one first.