GT Strategies

4 Live Strategies.
More on the way.

Every backtest paired with its drawdown. Every setting frozen, then tracked out-of-sample. A new one goes live only when it passes everything.

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FROZEN, OOS TRACKING BACKTEST, HYPOTHETICAL

Momentum Retrace

NQ 5m signals, trade NQ or MNQ

FROZEN CHAMPION BACKTEST, HYPOTHETICAL

Key Level Continuation

NQ 5m signals, trade NQ or MNQ

FROZEN CHAMPION BACKTEST, HYPOTHETICAL

Asia Range Reclaim

NQ 5m signals, overnight session

Hypothetical backtest results, not live fills. No member account is shown here.

How you get the indicators

Five steps from checkout to your first alert. Most people are set up within a day.

Whop store page with the GT Strategies Membership plans and Start free trial button
01

Join on Whop

Pick a plan and check out. Your membership page opens right after.

Whop Discord page with the Connect Account button
02

Join the Discord

On Whop, open the Discord tab and click Connect Account. Link your Discord and you are in.

The private tv-username channel in the GT Strategies Discord
03

Post your TradingView username

Post it in #tv-username, spelled exactly as it shows on your TradingView profile.

Side by side: GT Strategies NQ on an NQ1! 5-minute chart and GT Strategies MNQ on an MNQ1! 5-minute chart
04

Find the indicators

We add you by hand, usually within 24 hours. In TradingView open Indicators, then Purchased. Add GT Strategies NQ to an NQ1! 5-minute chart, or GT Strategies MNQ to an MNQ1! 5-minute chart.

Example Momentum Retrace alert in its Discord signal channel
05

Watch for signals

Signals post in the Discord feed and draw on your chart. You decide, and you place your own trades.

Trading micros (MNQ)

MNQ is one tenth of NQ. Every member gets the same signals, however they trade them. Pick the setup that fits you.

A

Use GT Strategies MNQ on an MNQ chart

Add it to an MNQ1! 5-minute chart. It reads NQ data behind the scenes, so you get the exact signals the NQ chart shows, drawn on the micro you trade.

B

Watch NQ, trade MNQ

Keep GT Strategies NQ on an NQ1! chart and place your orders on MNQ. NQ and MNQ trade at the same price, so the entry, stop and target carry straight over.

C

Mix the sizes

10 MNQ equal 1 NQ. The sizing calculator shows your size both ways, for example 23 micros or 2 NQ + 3 MNQ. The NQ / MNQ switch on the results pages rescales every number.

Over 5 years of data, one MNQ per signal made about 94% of the NQ result divided by 10. Most of the gap is commission: 10 micros cost about 3 times one NQ contract. Now and then a micro fills a tick differently, or its wick touches a stop that NQ missed. The indicator exit tags follow NQ.

How a strategy earns its place

01

Start from a written idea

Every build starts as a spec. First stop is the graveyard, to make sure we have not already killed it.

02

Build it loose

Version one takes too many trades on purpose. We want to see everything before we cut anything.

03

Write the pass line first

Pass and fail rules are written down before every test. One change per test, no exceptions.

04

Try to break it

Remove the best 20 trades. Split the years in half. Then run Monte Carlo: thousands of reshuffled trade orders, to see how deep the drawdowns can really get. It has to hold up every way.

05

Judge every rule on what it removed

Any filter is scored on the exact trades it took out. If those trades made money, the filter goes.

06

Freeze it and track it in public

Settings lock on a date. Everything after that date is out-of-sample, and it stays on the site.

LAB

Strategy Lab

The few ideas that survived the early rounds. They are close to meeting our full requirements and graduate only when they pass everything.

R.I.P.

The Graveyard

The vast majority of what we test ends up here. We keep the list so we never retest a dead idea, and so you can see how much gets thrown away.

00 / BASE CAMP

New to trading? Start here.

Six short steps. No finance degree needed. Read them in order, then open the Strategies tab.

01

What are NQ and MNQ?

NQ is the Nasdaq-100 futures contract. It moves $20 per point. MNQ is the micro version, one tenth the size, $2 per point. Beginners start on MNQ. Signals always come from NQ data, even on an MNQ chart. MNQ is just a smaller order.

02

How the four strategies work

All four strategies trade NQ on a 5-minute chart. Momentum Retrace and Key Level Continuation trade the New York session; Asia Range Reclaim and Momentum Retrace Overnight trade overnight. Momentum Retrace waits for a strong move, then enters on the pullback. Key Level Continuation waits for price to break a marked level, come back to test it, and continue. Asia Range Reclaim waits for price to sweep outside the evening range and come back inside, then bets it crosses to the other side. Momentum Retrace Overnight uses the Momentum Retrace idea in the overnight session: a strong candle in the direction the night is already moving, then an entry on the pullback. Every rule is fixed. Nothing is discretionary.

03

Reading an alert

An alert tells you four things: direction (long or short), entry price, stop price, and target. The TradingView indicator draws the same levels on your chart. You decide whether to take it. You place the trade yourself.

04

Position sizing and risk

Your stop distance times your contract count is what you lose if the trade fails. Pick that dollar number first, then work back to the contract count. The sizing calculator on the Prop Firms tab does this against the strategies' worst backtest drawdowns.

05

Placing your first trade

Start in a simulator or on one MNQ micro. Enter the entry, stop and target from the alert as a bracket order, so the exit is in place before you are filled. Do not move the stop. Log the trade. Members get a step-by-step guide with screenshots in the Discord.

06

Reading the results

Every number on this site is hypothetical. "Backtest" means the rules were run over past data. "Out-of-sample" means results after the settings were frozen, on data the rules never saw. Neither is money a member earned. The Track Record tab shows both, side by side.

Glossary

NQ
The Nasdaq-100 futures contract. $20 per point.
MNQ
The micro version of NQ, one tenth the size, $2 per point.
Micro
A small futures contract sized for smaller accounts.
Point / tick
A point is one full price unit. An NQ tick is 0.25 point, $5 (MNQ $0.50).
5m
A chart where each candle covers five minutes.
Long / short
Long bets price rises, short bets it falls.
Stop
The price where a losing trade is closed automatically.
Target
The price where a winning trade is closed automatically.
Bracket order
An entry with the stop and target attached, so both are live the moment you are filled.
Backtest
Running a strategy's rules over past price data to see what would have happened.
In-sample
The data used to build and tune a strategy before it was frozen.
Out-of-sample (OOS)
Results after the settings were frozen, on data the rules never saw.
Frozen
Settings locked on a date and never re-tuned after that.
Champion
The current frozen version of a strategy that is live.
Net
Total profit or loss across all trades in a window.
Profit factor (PF)
Gross profit divided by gross loss. Above 1.0 means profitable.
Win rate
The share of trades that closed positive.
Drawdown / Max DD
The largest peak-to-trough drop in account equity.
Monte Carlo
Reshuffling trade order thousands of times to see how bad the drawdown could realistically get.
Counterfactual
Comparing two trade lists that differ by one rule, to see what that rule actually changed.
Displacement
A fast, forceful price move away from a level, used as a signal of intent.
Structure break
Price closing beyond a prior swing high or low, marking a shift in trend.
VWAP
Volume-weighted average price, the average price paid so far today, weighted by volume.
EMA
Exponential moving average, a trend line that weights recent price more heavily.
Confluence
Multiple separate signals lining up at the same price, adding confidence to a setup.
Prop firm
A company that funds traders who pass its evaluation, in exchange for a share of profits.
Eval
The paid evaluation a prop firm requires before it funds an account.
Funded account
A prop firm account you trade after passing the evaluation.
Trailing drawdown
A loss limit that rises as the account makes new profit highs, and never moves back down.
EOD trailing
A trailing drawdown limit that only moves up at end of day, based on the closing balance.

Educational, not advice. You place your own trades.

VIDEOS

The Stickman Library

Start here

Hi, I'm Stickman1:19

Who we are and what robust looks like: a win rate in the low 50s over five years, not the 90% you see in the posts.

The Live Strategies0:51

Momentum Retrace, Key Level Continuation and Asia Range Reclaim, each with its worst and best month.

How We Backtest0:55

Years of data, commission on every trade, both halves must make money, and the best trades deleted to see what is left.

No Signal, No Trade0:47

What happens on a day when none of the indicators fire. Nothing. That is the system doing its job.

New

Power of Three: Three Numbers0:27

Up $50,147 since the start of 2024 on one NQ contract, a $7,118 biggest drawdown, and $0, because this indicator is going free. Release date to come.

Draft Night: Momentum Retrace Overnight0:39

Thirteen versions, thirteen green months in a row, one draft pick. Our fourth live strategy trades the overnight session.

Thirteen Versions Went In. One Survived.0:28

Momentum Retrace Overnight's first test lost $36,400 over two years. Version 13 is the one that passed every test.

Lessons

Futures 101: What Is a Futures Contract?0:42

Lesson 1. What a futures contract is, long versus short, and what NQ and ES track.

Futures 101: Points and Ticks0:46

Lesson 2. NQ is $20 a point and a tick is $5. ES is $50 a point. Micros are one tenth the size.

Futures 101: Leverage0:45

Lesson 3. One NQ contract controls about $600,000 of the Nasdaq, so a 1% move is about $6,000 in either direction.

Prop Firms 1011:04

How prop firm accounts work: sizes from 25K to 150K, challenge versus instant accounts, and roughly what a 50K account costs.

Win Rate vs Profit Factor0:42

Why a 90% win rate can still lose money, and the number to ask for instead.

The Win Rate Trick0:43

How trading bot ads get a huge win rate, and why you should ask for the average win and the average loss.

Let Your Winners Run?0:49

Everyone says let your winners run. Our latest round of testing alone was 224 backtests, and zero passed.

Why We Never Trade Just One Strategy0:32

Every strategy has bad months. Strategies that don't move together smooth them out.

Read the Report, Not the Headline0:50

A post claimed a 78% win rate, so we read the report that came with it.

Nine Losses in a Row0:51

One of our strategies lost nine trades in a row, over $5,000 in under two weeks. Then we zoom out.

Our Worst Months0:40

Every strategy has bad months. Here are ours.

The Luck Line0:44

Out of a hundred traders with no edge at all, about thirty pass a prop evaluation anyway. A simulation on historical data, not real accounts.

No Magnets0:47

We tested about seventy kinds of key levels against random lines on five years of NQ and ES data. Not one held price better than random. The level isn't the edge, the context around it is.

Show the Strategy0:44

How many trades does your trading indicator actually show you? At two of the biggest brands, the answer is zero.

The Battle Map0:53

Every level the Battle Map indicator can draw, and how to switch off the ones you don't use.

The lab and the graveyard

Strategy Lab Tour0:40

The strategies that are close but not live yet, and why they are still in the lab.

New in the Lab0:49

Four new strategies, over half a million dollars combined in two-year backtests, and the flaw that keeps each one in the lab.

Graveyard Tour0:43

Ideas that died in testing and why. Most of what we test ends up here.

The ORB Graveyard0:43

We tested 14 versions of the opening range breakout, 1 minute to 1 hour, on up to five years of data each. The best were marginally profitable and none came close to our live strategies.

Fair Value Gaps: In the Graveyard0:39

Every trader has heard of fair value gaps. Here is why they are in our graveyard.

We Killed It0:30

Most of what we build dies. That's the point.

Sixty-Seven Dollars0:37

We doubled a strategy's profit factor. It made $67 more.

A Eulogy for a Dead Strategy0:38

Last-30 Momentum made about $82,000 in 2022 and 2023 on one NQ contract, then lost three years in a row. It never went live.

Just for fun

The Wild Retail Trader1:09

A nature documentary. Every morning at 9:30, one creature in this park makes the same mistake.

Account Blow-Up Speedrun0:51

Blowing up a trading account, speedrun style. Every split in the run is a habit that blows up accounts.

Recaps

October 2026 Wrap0:30

September up about $13,600 and October up about $15,800 on one NQ contract. One strategy had a red month and the book still finished green.

September 2026 Wrap0:35

Up $13,572 on one NQ contract. 55 trades, 36 winners, including an 11-trade win streak.

Week Recap: Nov 2 to 60:30

Up $4,454 on one NQ contract. Six trades, three winners: half our trades lost and the week still finished green.

Week Recap: Oct 26 to 300:36

Up $4,724 on 13 trades, 8 winners. Friday's sell-off did most of the work.

Week Recap: Oct 19 to 230:41

Up $603 on 12 trades. Six winners, six losers, and still green.

Week Recap: Oct 12 to 160:37

Up $7,644 on 21 trades. Momentum Retrace went 7 for 7.

Week Recap: Oct 5 to 90:38

Up $2,624 on 14 trades. Key Level Continuation went 3 for 3.

Week Recap: Sep 28 to Oct 20:39

Down $3,948 on one NQ contract, 7 winners out of 17. We show the red weeks too.

Week Recap: Sep 21 to 250:37

Up $12,398 on one NQ contract, 11 winners out of 12. Not every week looks like this.

Week Recap: Sep 14 to 180:34

Up $2,166 on 13 trades. One strategy had a bad week and the other two carried it.

01 / THE SUMMIT

Strategy pages

Plain-English mechanics, the full stat panel, and month by month results.

03 / THE RECORD

Track Record

Backtests that keep aging. Every strategy is frozen on a date, everything after that date is out-of-sample, and we highlight it.

Updated after every close. Frozen settings, never re-tuned. Hypothetical backtest results, not live fills.
04 / THE GRAVEYARD

The Graveyard

Ideas that didn't survive testing. We keep the receipts so we don't retest them, and so you can see how much gets thrown away.

Not an exhaustive list. Each entry is a tested, documented dead end, not a passing thought.

02 / BASE CAMP

Strategy Lab

Most ideas don't make it. The vast majority of what we test dies in the graveyard, killed by an out-of-sample window, a counterfactual check, or just not enough trades to matter. The few below survived years of data and the stress tests we throw at everything. They're close. They graduate to a live indicator only when they pass everything, not before.

Backtest results on 1 NQ contract. Each one lists what's wrong with it and why it isn't live yet.

05 / THE ROUTE

Prop Firms

A reference table of funded-account rules, plus a sizing calculator.

Sizing calculator

Worst-case sizing takes the deepest drawdown in the window you picked, makes it this much worse, and sizes so your account still survives it.
Worst case
Max MNQ micros
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Higher risk, higher reward
Max MNQ micros
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Members also see a higher-risk size, plus how many times it would have failed the account in the backtest.

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Illustrative. Backtest drawdowns get exceeded. Educational, not advice. You place your own trades.

Compare firms

Firm Account Size Drawdown Type Drawdown $ Profit Target Automation
Rules change, verify with the firm.
06 / JOIN THE CLIMB

Membership

Everything you need to follow all three strategies yourself, you place your own trades.

Every plan is the same membership. Three strategies, clear numbers, nothing else to learn.

The price goes up each time a Strategy Lab build graduates. Members keep the rate they joined at. We add slowly. Each one has to survive first.

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Standard

$49/mo

The regular monthly rate. Cancel any time.

Yearly

Annual

$350/yr

About $29 a month, paid once a year.

25 seats, then gone

Founder Lifetime

$499 once

Pay once. Own it forever. Full, 100% lifetime access to everything: every indicator, every alert, every tool, and every strategy we ever add. No renewals. No price increases. Ever.

What you get

  • Invite-only TradingView indicators, GT Strategies NQ and GT Strategies MNQ, covering Momentum Retrace, Key Level Continuation and Asia Range Reclaim
  • Discord signal channels with real-time alerts, one per strategy
  • Contract sizing calculator
  • A private Discord of traders who take this as seriously as you do

How it works

You get the indicators and alerts. You watch the chart and place the trade yourself, in your own account, on your own terms.

We do not manage accounts or automate execution.

You are joining early

This is a trading system that is still being built, and it moves fast. New tools ship as they are ready. New strategies join the moment they pass testing. The community grows with it, and every bit of that is included in your membership.

Getting set up

You need a TradingView account. The indicators live there, and we invite you by username. A free account works. Each indicator carries all three strategies, each with its own on/off switch, so it fits on a free plan.

  1. Sign up. Pick a plan and start your 5-day trial.
  2. Join the Discord. Your invite link arrives right after checkout.
  3. Drop your TradingView username. Post it in the #tv-username channel, spelled exactly as it shows on your TradingView profile.
  4. Get invited. We add your username to GT Strategies NQ and GT Strategies MNQ by hand, usually within 24 hours. They show up in TradingView under Indicators, then Purchased.
  5. Add them to your chart. Alerts start in the Discord signal channels the same day you join.
FAQ

Questions

Short answers. If yours is not here, send it below.

Do you place trades for me?

No. You get the indicators and alerts. You watch the chart and place every trade yourself, in your own account. We do not manage accounts or automate anything.

What do I need to get started?

A TradingView account (free works) and Discord. After checkout, join the Discord, post your TradingView username in #tv-username, and we add you to GT Strategies NQ and GT Strategies MNQ, usually within 24 hours.

Does a free TradingView plan work?

Yes. Each indicator carries all three strategies, each with its own on/off switch, so it fits on a free plan.

What market and timeframe?

Nasdaq futures (NQ and MNQ) on the 5-minute chart. The backtests run on NQ. Most members trade the micro (MNQ). Use GT Strategies NQ on an NQ chart and GT Strategies MNQ on an MNQ chart. Both show the same signals. Each one only runs on its own market. On the wrong chart it shows an error.

Do NQ and MNQ alerts come at the same time?

Entry signals, yes. On MNQ, the Momentum Retrace "armed" alert and the target and stop alerts come when the 5-minute bar closes. On NQ they come the moment they happen. Place your stop and target with your entry and this does not matter.

Are the results real trades?

No. Every number on this site is a backtest over years of data, with commissions and one tick of slippage per trade. Real fills can be worse. The Track Record tab shows how each strategy has done since it went live.

Can I use this on a prop firm account?

Many traders do. Firm rules differ and change, so check your firm's rules yourself. Most firms ban holding opposite positions across your accounts, even at different firms, so never be long in one account and short in another at the same time.

How does the free trial work?

Monthly and annual plans start with 5 days free. Cancel any time during the trial and you are never charged. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and has no trial.

Can I get a refund?

On monthly and annual plans, the 5-day trial is the refund window. After your first payment, payments are not refundable. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no trial, and it is final, so try a monthly plan first if you are unsure. When you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. Charged in error? Email us within 14 days and we will fix it.

Will my price go up?

No. The price goes up for new members each time a new strategy graduates. You keep the rate you joined at for as long as you stay a member.

How do I cancel?

From your Whop account, any time. Access stays on until the end of the period you paid for.

Why show a Graveyard?

So you can see what we tested and threw out. Most ideas fail. Showing the dead ones is how you know the live ones had to earn their spot.

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