Public strategies, written as exact rules on real charts.

Widely known intraday futures strategies, written as exact rules, walked through on real past MNQ sessions (including a day each one failed), and checked against the prop firm rules that end evaluations: trailing drawdowns, daily loss limits and consistency. The overview is free to read; the full breakdown is free with your email.

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailOpening range breakoutThe rule card, two real MNQ sessions (one target, one stop) and how to size it under a trailing drawdown.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailVWAP pullbackThe rule card, a real green day and a real red day on MNQ, and the two-trade cap that kept the red day small.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailInitial balance breakoutThe rule card, two real MNQ sessions (one target, one stop) and how to size a stop that is half the first hour's range.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailPrior-day high/lowThe rule card, two real MNQ sessions (one target, one stop) and what costs and size do to a 10-point stop.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailVWAP mean reversionThe rule card, a real session it reached VWAP and a real one it stopped out, and the one-stop-per-side rule that kept the trend day to one loss.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailBreak and retestThe rule card with exact retest edges, a real session it reached its target, one it stopped out, and one where the rules correctly did nothing.Read the breakdown →

Strategy breakdown · overview free, full breakdown with your emailValue area and POCHow VAH, VAL and POC are built (70%, regular session), the rule card, a real session it reached the far edge, one it lost, and one where the rules stayed out.Read the breakdown →

Five numbered cards: setup (the levels or trend the rules wait for), entry (the exact bar that triggers, on its close), stop (fixed before entry), target and time exit, and size and daily cap. — **One rule card per strategy.** Setup, entry, stop, target and size are written as numbers, so two people would test the same thing.

Formula card: contracts equal the money you allow per trade divided by the stop in points times the point value, rounded down; if one contract is already too much, no trade. — **Size from the stop.** Every breakdown sizes the trade from its stop, so a wider range means fewer contracts, not more risk.

How we pick what goes here. Only public strategies that traders already search for and that anyone can test. No signals, no setups for tomorrow, no strategy we sell. Every chart is a past session, labelled as a selected example, not a typical result.

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Disclosures

Education only. This page explains how a widely known, public strategy is defined and how you could test it yourself. It is not advice, not a recommendation to trade any contract, size or strategy, and not a signal: it shows no setup for any future session. Charts are real past sessions, chosen to show the rules (including a day they failed); they are selected examples, not typical results. The charts are TradingView snapshots (MNQ1!, regular trading hours, one-minute unless the caption says otherwise; a volume profile, where shown, is TradingView's built-in Fixed Range Volume Profile); diagrams labelled as illustrations are drawn by Tarrow Futures and are not market data. The level, range, entry, stop and target marks and labels on them were added by Tarrow Futures. Bars may differ slightly from those on your platform. Trade outcomes on this page are what the written rules would have done on those days, before commissions and slippage. They are not trades Tarrow Futures placed. Dollar figures for sequences and rules are example figures, not results. Prop firm rules differ and change; your firm's current rulebook decides. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss. Automation does not remove risk.

CFTC Rule 4.41: Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not been executed, the results may have under- or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profit or losses similar to those shown.