Go from sign-up to your first real backtest in about five minutes — just by typing one idea.
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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A fresh chat, ready for your idea.
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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 strategy card: your idea as exact rules, plus a flow chart.
The backtest tab: equity curve and headline metrics.
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.
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?.
