Trading methods as testable rules

These pages describe common futures day trading approaches as rules you can test: what the idea is, when it tends to apply, where the entry, stop and exit sit, and how it fails. None of them is a promise of profit. Every method here is something to test in practice before it goes anywhere near a paid eval.

A method that can't be written down as rules can't be tested, and a method that hasn't been tested is a guess with a nice name. Start with how to test, then try the methods.

• How to test a trading strategy before you pay for an eval

  A practical way to test a day trading strategy: written rules, enough trades to mean something, costs and slippage included, and an eval-style rule check.

• Opening range breakout, as rules you can test

  The opening range breakout written as testable rules for index futures: range window, entry, stop, exit, how it fails, and how to test it under eval rules.

• VWAP for futures day traders

  What VWAP is, how it's calculated, how day traders use it as a reference for trend and mean reversion, and how to test a VWAP rule before an eval.