I trade NQ futures from the open until 11:00, then close the laptop and go sell software. I'm building a bot to trade my plan on prop-firm accounts. This is the build log: the tests, the tools, the firms and the numbers, including the parts that don't work.
One indicator, one instrument, two months, $20,000. On November 8, 2026 I put the $2,400 payout behind a single rule: no level trades while price is still near yesterday's close. Five years of backtests say the rule is where the money is. Two months live, with every trade shown, will say whether it holds. Scoreboard written before the first trade, readout every Sunday, the number at the close on January 8, good or bad.
Read the starting line → See the scoreboard →The test running now, then the series in the order I lived them.
Where I started, what broke, and what I'm testing now. Why prop firms, the tests I built before any strategy, the bot that sends me signals I click, the YouTube trader I tried to copy, and what comes next.
Read the story →Earlier writing (archived): the graveyard series and research notes, written before this publication started. Some claims and numbers there are older than the posts under Writing.