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AskFutures is a chat-based futures backtesting assistant. You describe a trading idea the way you’d say it to another trader — “Buy Micro Crude when the 9 EMA crosses above the 21 EMA, with a $500 stop” — and AskFutures turns it into a precise, rule-based strategy, backtests it against years of real market data, and shows you exactly how it would have performed. No code. No spreadsheets. No platform scripting. Just describe the idea and read the results.
The AI only translates your idea into rules and chats with you. The backtest itself runs on fixed, deterministic code over real historical prices — the same rules and data always produce the same numbers. The AI never invents performance figures. See Is the backtest real?.

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Who it’s for

Discretionary traders

You have ideas but no time (or desire) to code them. Describe a setup in plain English and get an honest, data-backed answer to “would this have worked?”

Quant-leaning power users

Reach for every TA-Lib indicator, opening-range and VWAP tools, ATR and trailing stops, multi-timeframe filters, spreads, z-score reversion, and Commitment-of-Traders overlays — without writing a backtest harness.

Developers

Drive the same engine from Claude, Cursor, or Codex through the MCP server — backtests in your own workflow.

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What it is not

AskFutures tests ideas against history. It does not touch your money or place a single order.
  • Not investment advice. Strategies and results are research tools, not recommendations to buy or sell anything.
  • Not a broker. AskFutures connects to no brokerage and holds no account.
  • Not a live-trading platform. Nothing here executes, routes, or automates real orders. Every backtest is hypothetical and simulated.
Backtest results are hypothetical and simulated — no real trades were placed. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always test before you trade.

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What you can trade

AskFutures covers CME Group futures only — that’s the CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX venues, roughly 74 contracts across equity indices, energy, metals, grains, rates, FX, crypto, livestock, softs, and volatility. Full-size and micro contracts are both included. The market data is a vendor feed that updates daily, uses back-adjusted continuous contracts, and is available as 1-minute, 5-minute, and daily bars.
Don’t see a market you trade? AskFutures is CME Group only by design — there’s no equities, options, crypto spot, or non-CME futures.

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Next steps

Quickstart

Run your first backtest in about five minutes.

Is the backtest real?

How AskFutures keeps the AI honest and the numbers reproducible.

The core loop

The Describe → Strategy → Backtest → Iterate mental model.

Core concepts

Strategies, backtests, and what makes the numbers trustworthy.