Backtest a futures strategy described in plain English
Details
- External ID
- 48718992
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backtest a futures strategy described in plain English
- Website domain
- askfutures.com
- Launched
- June 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- algorithmic trading bots and platforms
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- backtest futures strategies with natural language descriptions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Converting plain-English prompts into structured strategy parameters using LLMs is easy to vibe-code, but accurate futures backtesting demands licensed high-resolution market data and complex financial mechanics.
What it would actually take: A production system needs an event-driven backtesting engine (e.g., in Python or Rust) connected to tick- or minute-level historical futures databases (often licensed from CME at high cost). It must properly model contract expirations, calendar roll logic, margin requirements, slippage, and point valuations unique to derivatives trading.
Discussion
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Competitors
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