u/MasterCandles

I've been working on an automated trading system with diversified strategies. All the strategies have been profitable every year from 2020 to Oct 1st 2026. In the backtest it has made 300k over those 6 years trading 1 MNQ contract per entry. The result is good and I'm excited so yesterday I started it in a live account. My issue is that in recent years we have had a lot of volatility so I would like to backtest it in years prior to 2020, but unfortunately, I don't have the data to do so. Does anybody have data for prior years? It usually sits on the DB folder inside the NT folder. If you have it please let me know. Thanks.

Hey all, thinking about joining a group or just starting my own if I can't find the right fit. Looking for full time traders on ES, NQ, RTY, YM, oil, gold — minis/micros. Ideally, we should all trade the same session, basically NY open to close, so we're actually looking at the market at the same time.

As for the strategy, I trade price action, supply and demand, top down analysis. Weekly and daily for bias, then I work down through the timeframes and end up executing on something like the 1 min. Your strategy doesn't have to be identical to mine, but if it's wildly different we probably won't get much out of each other.

The goal is that every morning we share charts with marked zones we are watching. Then at the end of day we post our results, good or bad, no picking and choosing. The idea here is to keep us accountable to ourselves and to each other. Trading supply and demand requires patience as we have to wait for price to come to us, that is great because it keeps us away from overtrading, but also makes trading more lonely than it already is and that is when we start looking for trades where there is none. So hopefully we can also build some friendship out of this.

Lastly, just for full transparency, I will not add everyone. The goal here is not to have number but to create a strong group. I might even remove some participants afterwards if the ideas/strategy doesn't align or if there is a lack of participation and contribution. I don't want anybody jumping from strategy to strategy, breaking trading rules, and always jumping to the next hot thing.

If you are lazy, always trying to cut corners, and want easy money this group is probably not for you.

If you're interested send me a DM, intro yourself, why you want in, what you'd bring to the table.

Sorry for the long post.

I used to trade forex, but I moved to futures after 3-4 years. Futures is less manipulated and better when it comes to taxes, especially in the USA. So what are the reason some people prefer to trade forex over other markets?