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You can test your first trading idea in about five minutes. Sign in, start your trial, type one idea in plain English, and watch the strategy and its backtest appear. No code, no spreadsheets, no platform scripting.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always test before you trade.

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Pick a plan to begin your 3-day free trial. You won’t be charged today — the trial gives you time to run real backtests before you decide. See account and billing for what each plan includes.

Type one idea in plain English

Describe a trade the way you’d say it to a fellow trader. Try this one:
Your first prompt
Buy Micro Nasdaq when price breaks above the first 15-minute high,
and exit if it closes back below the midpoint of that range
Send it. You don’t need to mention bars, dates, or directions — AskFutures fills in sensible defaults (last 1 year, 1-minute bars, day-trading, and an end-of-day exit) and tells you what it assumed.
Phrasing tips: name the market (“Micro Nasdaq” or “MNQ”), state the entry (“when price breaks above…”), and, if you want, the exit (“exit if…”). Anything you leave out becomes a stated assumption you can change later — so it’s fine to start rough and refine.

Watch the strategy and backtest appear

AskFutures turns your sentence into a precise rule-based strategy and runs it through a fixed, deterministic backtest over years of real prices. The strategy card shows the entry, exit, filters, and a Strategy Flow chart of the logic; the backtest tab shows the equity curve and the headline numbers — net of modeled slippage and commission.
The AskFutures strategy card
The AskFutures backtest results tab
These results are hypothetical and simulated — no real trades were placed. Past performance, actual or simulated, does not guarantee future results. Always test before you trade.

Refine by chatting

Don’t like something? Just say so. Add a filter, change the exit, swap the symbol, or test a different period — in plain English. For example:
Refine it
Trade only if the opening range is over $400
Each change becomes a new saved version, so you can compare before and after. Keep iterating until the idea earns your trust.

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What just happened

The AI only translated your words into rules. Every number came from a fixed, deterministic engine replaying real historical prices — so the same rules on the same data always produce the same result. More on that in is the backtest real?.

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Next steps

Your first strategy

A full screen-by-screen walkthrough of the opening-range breakout.

The core loop

Describe, Strategy, Backtest, Iterate — the mental model.

Is the backtest real?

Why the numbers are an honest replay, not a guess.

Build a strategy

Phrasing patterns for entries, exits, filters, and risk.