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You don’t need a strategy in hand to get started. If you have an idea but no rules — or no idea at all yet — AskFutures can bring the rules to you. Three ways to do it, all in the same chat:

Research

Ask AskFutures to find strategies on a topic. It searches published sources and brings back ideas with links.

From a video

Paste a YouTube link. AskFutures reads the transcript and pulls out the strategy described in it.

From an article

Paste any article URL. AskFutures extracts the programmable rules and turns them into a strategy card.
Whichever route you take, the result lands as a strategy you can backtest, edit, and compare — the same loop as anything you build from scratch.
Whatever an article, video, or source claims it returned, AskFutures runs its own independent backtest on real CME Group data. Nothing is promoted, ranked, or recommended based on someone else’s numbers.

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1. Ask AskFutures to research strategies

When you don’t have rules yet, just ask. Describe the kind of thing you’re after — an indicator, a market, a regime, a complexity level — and AskFutures searches published sources and brings back concrete ideas with citations. Good prompts:
  • “Find me a strategy that uses Bollinger Bands.”
  • “What strategies work for crude oil?”
  • “Research a simple momentum approach for the E-mini S&P.”
  • “I want something for trending markets — show me a few options.”
What comes back:
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Concrete ideas, not vague advice

Each suggestion has real entry and exit logic — specific indicators, periods, and thresholds — not “wait for confirmation.”
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Sources you can check

Every idea links to the published page it came from, so you can read the original and verify it yourself.
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No invented strategies

AskFutures only presents ideas it actually found. If a search turns up nothing useful, it tells you — it won’t fill the gap with guesses.
When one looks interesting, say “build that one” (or tweak it in plain English) and AskFutures structures it into a strategy and runs a backtest.
The more specific your ask, the sharper the results. “RSI for crude oil intraday” beats “good strategy.” Narrow by indicator, market, and style.

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2. Import a strategy from a YouTube video

Watched a trading video and want to test what it teaches? Paste the link.
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Paste the YouTube URL

Drop in a full link (youtube.com/watch?v=...), a short link (youtu.be/...), or just the video ID.
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AskFutures reads the transcript

It pulls the video’s captions and reads through what the presenter actually describes — the indicators, the entry trigger, the exit.
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You get a strategy card

The rules come back as a strategy you can backtest and refine like any other.
This needs the video to have captions. If a video has no available captions, AskFutures will tell you — paste the rules in your own words instead and it’ll build from those.

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3. Import programmable rules from an article

Found a write-up on Investopedia, a TradingView blog, or anywhere else? Paste the URL and AskFutures extracts the rules that can actually be coded into a backtest.
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Paste the article URL

Any non-YouTube web page describing a strategy.
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AskFutures extracts the rules

It reads the full article — including any code or pseudocode blocks — and separates the precise entry and exit logic from the filler. Vague, discretionary advice (“use your judgment”) gets dropped, not guessed at.
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One card per strategy

If the article describes several approaches, you get a card for each, with the source cited on every one.
If AskFutures can’t reach the page (paywall, broken link, or empty content), it’ll say so. Just copy the strategy text out of the article and paste it into chat — AskFutures will work from that.
Strategies run on real TA-Lib indicators. If an article leans on something outside that set, AskFutures flags it and suggests the closest supported equivalent rather than faking it.
Some articles are pure narrative with nothing concrete to test. If there’s nothing programmable, AskFutures tells you honestly and asks you to describe the idea in your own words instead.

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What never carries over: the claimed results

This is the important part. A video might brag about a 90% win rate; an article might quote a Sharpe ratio. AskFutures ignores all of it. Those numbers come from someone else’s data and assumptions. What you get instead is an honest, independent backtest of the rules on real CME Group history — net of modeled slippage and commission — so you see how the idea would actually have performed for you.
Imported strategies are backtested the same way as everything else: results are hypothetical and simulated, run by fixed, deterministic code over real historical prices. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always test before you trade.
For exactly where the AI stops and the math begins, see Is the backtest real?.

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Next steps

Build a strategy

Once you’ve imported an idea, shape it into exactly what you mean.

Run and read a backtest

Test the imported rules and understand the results.

Iterate and refine

Add filters, swap exits, and tune the idea by chatting.

Is the backtest real?

Why the numbers are an honest replay, not a sales pitch.