My live bot lost its first 3 trades in 2 days. The backtest was filling orders on the signal bar. Classic.

So I built Kapybar. Describe your strategy to Claude or ChatGPT (any language, voice, even a screenshot), confirm the rules, and it runs on 40 liquid CME futures (ES, NQ, CL, GC, ZN… + micros), 1-min to daily, back to 2008.

- next-bar fills, real rolls, commissions

- always vs buy-and-hold

- flags luck and edges that die with one more tick of cost

- last 2 years hidden until your final verdict (3 shots per market)

- prop-firm pass odds, minus luck

It tests your ideas, it doesn't make them up. If something passes, it means something.

Looking for serious rule-based traders. Needs Claude or ChatGPT Plus (MCP connector, 2 min setup). Free during beta.

No money, no broker access, no API keys.

Comment how you trade and I'll send an invite.

Not financial advice.

1. Unmatched Liquidity and Tight Spreads

• Deep Order Books: NQ is one of the most heavily traded index futures contracts globally. Millions of contracts exchange hands daily, meaning institutional and retail volume converges seamlessly.
• Zero Slippage Headaches: Unlike low-float equities or offshore crypto exchanges where you can get severely front-run or trapped by wide spreads, NQ routinely trades on a tight 1-tick spread. Your fills are clean, and your market or stop-limit orders execute predictably.

2. High Volatility That Pays the Bills

• Built-In Momentum: Because the Nasdaq-100 is tech-heavy, featuring giants like Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, it naturally trends harder and moves more points per day than the S&P 500 (ES) or Dow (YM).
• Action Across Sessions: NQ does not just move during the 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM EST cash session. Pre-market data drops, European opens, and overnight developments give active traders clean technical setups nearly 23 hours a day, from Sunday evening through Friday afternoon.

3. Structural Scalability with MNQ and NQ

• Precise Sizing Control: You do not have to choose between going all-in or sitting on the sidelines. The product suite scales cleanly:
  • NQ (E-mini): $20 per index point ($5.00 per 0.25-point tick). Built for accounts with heavier capital requirements.
  • MNQ (Micro): $2 per index point ($0.50 per 0.25-point tick). Exactly one-tenth the size, allowing smaller accounts to scale risk down, scale out of winners incrementally, or backtest strategies without blowing up.

4. Tax Efficiency (The Section 1256 Advantage)

• 60/40 Split: In the United States, futures contracts are classified as Section 1256 contracts. Regardless of how short-term your hold time is, even if you are scalping a 2-minute chart, your profits are taxed at 60% long-term capital gains and 40% short-term capital gains rates. Compare that to short-term stock trading or options trading, where you get hammered by standard short-term income tax brackets.

5. High Leverage

• Capital Freedom: Futures trading operates on margin set by your broker and the exchange, where intraday margins can be as low as $50 to $100 for MNQ and $500 to $1,000 for NQ, depending on the platform. While over-leveraging is how rookies blow up accounts, having the freedom to execute trades based on setup rather than arbitrary account-balance handcuffs is a massive operational benefit.

>The Bottom Line for:
NQ and MNQ reward discipline, technical execution, and risk management—and they brutally punish emotional gambling. If people are losing money, it is almost never the product's fault; it comes down to poor risk parameters and zero understanding of tick values, no clear strategy.

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.