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Positive Signals in Stock Indexes
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Weekly Cycle and Persistent Spikes
We hav...
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Last Weeks Chaotic Chop Persists
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Trading System Signals on 06-18-2026 and Drawdown Entry Alerts
Several Nasdaq trading system portfolios are now in drawdown after reaching ...
Trading System Signals on 06-17-2026
FOMC Day was extremely noisy.
It was the new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's first m...
Trading System Signals on 06-16-2026
Tomorrow is FOMC Day and will be the first Fed meeting for Kevin Warsh.
The 1...
Trading System Signals on 06-15-2026
NQ Open Range was a highlight on the day capturing the long trade.
Hypothetic...
Trading System Signals on 06-12-2026 and Rollover Alert
Be sure to roll to the September contract for live trading on Monday.
V-Rever...
Trading System Signals on 06-11-2026 and Spaced Out
In 1916, John D Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire and that was...
Trading System Signals on 06-10-2026
The market went through a choppy pullback with the Two System Portfolio and T...
Equity Peaks in SI 18 and Trading System Signals on 06-09-2026
The market sold off sharply again resembling Friday's trade but the Nasdaq di...
Trading System Signals on 06-08-2026
The stock indexes tried to rebound from Friday's losses, gapping up in mostly...
Big Shorts to Equity Peaks and Trading System Signals on 06-05-2026
We hit equity peaks in all of the Nasdaq portfolios today with three of the p...
Trading System Signals on 06-04-2026
The portfolios were down across the board in Thursday's trade.
Thursday's ral...
Beating the Nasdaq with Day Trades and Trading System Signals on 06-03-2026
Since beginning live trading on August 2, 2024, the Two System Portfolio NQ i...
Equity Peaks and Trading System Signals on 06-02-2026
The Seven System Portfolio hit new equity peaks today with nice gains on V-Re...
Trading System Signals on 06-01-2026
The 25 System Portfolio was the highlight of the day with nice gains.
On Frid...
Trading System Signals on 05-29-2026, Market Shifts, and Live vs Hypotheticals
One of the key things to remember in markets and trading is that things can c...
E-mini Nasdaq V-Reversal Shorts and Portfolios Bouncing
Nice short trades today from the mean reversion setup.
The point is not nec...
One Rule to Improve Gap Continuation Trades
There is one simple rule that improves the backtest for gap continuation setu...
Trading System Signals on 05-28-2026
V-Reversal captured a nice trade on the long side, hitting its profit target ...
Trading System Signals on 05-27-2026
V-Reversal captured a nice short in Wednesday's trade hitting the profit targ...
Trading System Signals on 05-26-2026
The market gapped up on Monday's Memorial Day session when the futures were o...
Trading System Signals on 05-22-2026
Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 05-22-202625 System Portfolio NQ = -$8...
Trading System Signals on 05-21-2026
We discuss the Two System, Three System, and Seven System Portfolio in live t...
Trading System Signals on 05-20-2026
The mean reversion trade was on today as V-Reversal captured profits on the l...
Trading System Signals on 05-19-2026, Proteus, Gap and Go, NVDA
One of the things that makes this market so difficult on noisy/chaotic tradin...
Trading System Signals on 05-18-2026
Today's price action was one of the noisiest and ugliest days we have seen in...
Trading System Signals on 05-15-2026
V-Reversal was on today, taking the long trade for the bounce.
Bond yields su...
Trading System Signals on 05-14-2026
Choppy trading day with few signals in the smaller portfolios. The 3 System a...
Trading System Signals on 05-13-2026
The 18 System Portfolio has hit equity peaks 3 of the last 4 trading days. It...
Trading System Signals on 05-12-2026 - Equity Peaks
Today, a couple of the portfolios taking shorts early in the day hit equity p...
Trading System Signals on 05-11-2026
Choppy day on Monday's trade as the stock indexes tried to continue their non...
Seven System Portfolio Equity Peaks, Short Selling, and Trading System Signals on 05-08-2024
The key highlight this week was the equity peak made in the Seven System Port...
Trading System Signals on 05-07-2026
Thursday's trade was choppy. We typically see no more than one or two day's i...
Trading System Signals on 05-06-2026
Good gains across the board in many of the trend portfolios after an extended...
Trading System Signals on 05-05-2026
The gap up and accelerate during the first 30 minutes of trade followed by an...
Trading System Signals on 05-04-2026
There were many bearish factors in the market today.-Market breadth was negat...
Trading System Signals on 05-01-2026
The bull run in April was one of the strongest intra-day bull runs we have se...
Cyclical Opportunity for V-Reversal and Daily Results for 04-30-2026
The current streak is similar to the streak in September and October of 2025 ...
Trading System Signals on 04-29-2026
FOMC Trade was very divergent making its final high at the end of the session...
Trading FOMC, Merging Portfolios, and Trading System Results
Historically, we have observed that some of the strongest days can follow som...
The Cycle of Equity Curves in the Two System Portfolio - Principles and Questions
The current drawdown in the Two System Portfolio is very cyclical and reminds...
Trading System Signals on 04-27-2026
The traditional view is that markets trend roughly 20% to 30% of the time and...
Trading System Signals on 04-24-2026
The day started in the stock indexes with a massive gap up. The market is in ...
Nasdaq Futures Algorithmic Trading Portfolios: June 2026 and Q2 2026 Performance Review
Portfolio Update | June 2026 and Q2 2026
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Seven System E-mini Nasdaq Portfolio in Multicharts Portfolio Trader
Nasdaq Futures | MultiCharts Portfolio Backtester | Algori...
The Dilemma of Market Diversity in 2026 for Algorithmic Traders
Futures Trading | Market Volatility | Risk Management
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NQ Open Range 2026: A NinjaTrader 8 Nasdaq Futures Strategy Using TRINND
NQ Open Range 2026 uses the TRINND Nasdaq 100 Trend indicator from Kinetick a...
Comparing the Nasdaq 100 and with Quant Trading for Risk Adjusted Returns
Making 100%+ per year is not the primary goal when developing quantitative t...
Proteus III Backtest for June 2026
The highlight of the Proteus III Level II Trading System for NinjaTrader 8 on...
Nasdaq 100 Buy and Hold Day to Day Returns and Risk Management
What do the Nasdaq 100 buy and hold returns look like when measuring them as ...
The Most Important Metrics to Understand When Adjusting Multi Strategy Portfolios for New Strategies
The most important Key Metric to understand when adjusting multi-strategy por...
Proteus III June 2026 E-mini Nasdaq Market Replay
Three different Proteus III setups were tested.
1.) Proteus III base versio...
Five Warning Signs for a Market Correction — and How Short-Term Traders Can Prepare
Five Warning Signs for a Market Correction — and How Short-Term Traders Can P...
Mode of the Market Dip Buying Claude Code Setup
Since January 2025, the stock indexes have shown a very different style of d...
Gap and Go Strategy Open Code Added to Members Area
Using confirmations with trading system signals is typically the better longe...
Algo Coding Hack: Testing Day-of-Week Filters in a Trading System
In this video we discuss the cycle of day trade mean reversion and long term ...
Short Selling the Nasdaq for 500 Points with VIX Divergences EasyLanguage Setup
The rally since March 31 has been one of the strongest straight-l...
Trading Dot Com Price Action Long and Short and Nasdaq 50,000
Markets like this create a difficult problem for systematic traders.
The Nasd...
Three Copper Strategies from Gold and Silver
Copper may not receive the same attention as Gold or Silver, but it remains o...
How Strong is the Stock Market Rally Historically? Exceeding Dot Com?
Many of our strategies are mean reversion strategies such as V-Reversal. Extr...
Optimizing and Micro Managing Frustrating Short Exit Strategies in Algorithmic Trading Systems
Today’s NQ Open Range 2026 trade was up approximately $3,500 per contract, th...
Open Code for Pattern Day Trade, In Sample - Out of Sample, Optimization, Algorithmic Portfolios
In this video, we reveal, with open code, an extremely simple strategy for th...
A Trading System for the News Driven Market
The last couple of years, we have seen a strong news cycle. The election cycl...
New Three System Portfolio
We are releasing the 3 System Portfolio NQ today, April 9, 2026. The 3 System...
Open Range NQ 2026 Update
The Open Range NQ has been one of our top performers since February 1. How do...
Drawdown Entry Alert and V-Reversal Exit Strategies Explained
In this video, we discuss the concepts related to discretionary trading versu...
How to Use Artificial Intelligence with Excel Data to find the Best Algorithmic Trading Systems Portfolio and Sharpe Ratios
In this video, we show how to use artificial intelligence to process the data...
Top Silver Futures Algorithm and Silver Portfolio Equity Peak
SR CounterTrend was originally developed in 2009. The latest version has been...
Technical Bearish Indicators for Stock Indexes No One is Talking About
While the rally in the stock market since the April lows is one of the more i...
Gap Continuation 2020 and 2024 Hitting Equity Peaks in October
Gap Continuation 2020 and Gap Continuation 2024 are two strategies in the por...
Equity Peaks for Diversified and Stock Index Algorithmic Trading System Portfolios
There is one week left for the 50K Portfolio special offer.We discuss the lat...
Equity Peaks on 10-20-2025 in Algorithmic Trading Systems Portfolios
The Diversified 57 (250K) and Diversified 28 (50K) Portfolios hit new equity ...
Nice Early Gains in Silver Futures
The long-short algorithms are up early in the Silver 16 Portfolio.The hypothe...
Drawdown Entry Alert Diversified Portfolio 57
The Diversified Portfolio 57 hit a drawdown entry alert based on yesterday's ...
V-Reversal Cycles for Morning and Afternoon Trades
V-Reversal is one of our top mean reversion algorithmic trading systems. It c...
Portfolio Matrix and Spreadsheet Download
To show the allocation setup between the Diversified 57 (250K) and Diversifie...
Equity Peaks Across the Portfolios
After a long period of compressed volatility, there was a quick snap back in ...
Silver Portfolio 16 Top Trades and Results on 10/10/2025
The Silver Portfolio 16 was up on 10/10/2025 with a combination of long and s...
Using Microsoft Excel to Track Algorithmic Trading Systems Portfolios
The Portfolio Calculator combines the end of day combined equity curve for a ...
Trading Gold and Silver in Waves
Gold Wave captured over 50 points last night in the futures markets.We discus...
50K Portfolio Update
The 50K Portfolio has been updated to increase both market diversity and meth...
Active Trading or Passive Investing
Recency bias makes passive investing look unbeatable right now. Markets do ha...
Diversified Portfolio 57 and Gold Flash 2025 Update
Our Diversified Portfolio 57 reached a fresh equity peak on Friday, October 3...
Silver Trading Systems
Silver has been one of the best markets to day trade and swing trade in 2025....
Testing 16 Silver Futures Algorithms to 2008 for a Trading Systems Portfolio
What happens if we stop cherry-picking and simply run all 16 Silver futures t...
Silver Portfolio Extends Its Winning Streak
The Silver Portfolio continues to demonstrate strong momentum. Today it gener...
Silver Algorithms - A Tradestation to NinjaTrader 8 Conversion for SR CounterTrend Active
The Silver market is one of the more steady state futures markets in 2025. Th...
Market Update: Additional Equity Peaks Signal Momentum Into Q4
September 24 brought further strength across several of our portfolios includ...
Market Update: Diversified Portfolio 57 Hits New Highs as Q4 Approaches
Diversified Portfolio 57 hits new equity highs as Q4 2025 nears. Learn why co...
Silver Algorithmic Trading Portfolio Hits Equity Peaks 3 out Last 5 Trading Days
The Silver Portfolio was released two months ago on July 25th. It has hit new...
Proteus II Highlights for Prop Trading Accounts
Proteus II v3 continues to be our favorite setup in the Proteus series as we ...
Intra-Day Futures Trading with Risk Discipline - Live Results
A mean reversion intra-day trading program that is agnostic to direction, vol...
Proteus I, II, and III September Contract Results
The September contract finished trading as the front month on Friday, Septemb...