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Each tutorial below takes one trading idea from a single plain-English sentence to a backtest you can read — then refines it with one more sentence. They’re short, hands-on, and grouped by skill level. Start at the top.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always test before you trade.

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Pick a tutorial

Opening-range breakout (MNQ)

Beginner. Buy Micro Nasdaq when price breaks the first 15-minute high, then add a filter that only trades on a wide opening range.

Buy the dip (MNQ)

Beginner. One mean-reversion rule, no indicators — buy a 1% drop below yesterday’s close, then keep it to the morning only.

EMA cross with stop and target (ES)

Intermediate. An EMA crossover entry with a dollar stop and profit target, so you control risk on every trade.

Trend pullback with adaptive risk

Intermediate. A daily-trend regime, an RSI pullback entry, and ATR-based stops that adapt to volatility.

Spread, z-score and COT

Advanced. Trade the ES-to-NQ spread with a z-score reversion signal and a Commitment-of-Traders positioning filter.

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How to follow along

Open the app

Sign in at askfutures.com and start your free trial. New here? The quickstart covers sign-up.

Copy the prompt

Each tutorial gives you a prompt to paste verbatim. You don’t need to mention bars, dates, or directions — AskFutures fills in sensible defaults and tells you what it assumed.

Read the backtest, then refine

Watch the strategy card and equity curve appear, read the headline numbers, then add the one refinement each tutorial suggests and compare.
New to the platform? Do the two Beginner tutorials first — they teach the full Describe -> Strategy -> Backtest -> Refine loop with the simplest possible ideas.

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Next steps

Start: opening-range breakout

The first beginner walkthrough.

The core loop

The mental model behind every tutorial.