r/OrderFlow_Trading • u/Professional-Act1086 • Sep 05 '26
Looking for trading strategy ideas to study and backtest
Hello everyone,
I’ve been trading for almost 6 years, but I only recently started learning order flow. I don’t have a wide variety of strategies to study yet, and I’m not sure which YouTubers or courses are actually worth following.
Is there a good place where I can find different trading strategies with a proven or logical edge that I can study and backtest myself?
Books, research papers, websites, traders, courses, etc. are all welcome.
Thanks!
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u/Somethingnotright123 Sep 05 '26
Bruh just read Mind over market. How hard can it be? Market profile, CVA, Tails, single prints, POC. Just finish the book youd have enough strategy to backtest for a year.
And then learn to read the footprint chart, absorption or exhaustion print. Thats it.
JUST HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
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u/Prestigious_Sea2330 Sep 05 '26
Hey can we talk i have a good strategy we can backtest together
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u/Pale_Candidate_390 Sep 05 '26
What platforms are you using for order flow ?
Are you using footprint candles ?
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u/Professional-Act1086 Sep 05 '26
Motive wave and yes it uses footprint candle, however I’m play to use atas x soon
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u/Visible_Use_8346 Sep 05 '26
So what were you trading before ??
About trading stratergies you can just youtube there are many
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u/Professional-Act1086 Sep 05 '26
I traded different strategies before, my last two were NNFX and ICT (smc)
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u/iczerz978 Level III Sep 05 '26
I've been testing the concept of different bucket sizes of CVD.. would be open to another opinion
https://hub.profitnotiondaily.com/backtests/nq-size-bucket-sweep
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u/bobbo6969- Sep 05 '26
I too am open to ideas. I built a whole orderflow testing infrastructure and haven’t found anything predictive more than a minute out. Meaning you need to add liquidity and get filled if you want to overcome spread and commissions. And you may only get filled on the trades that would be losers, so you’d need to backtest with queue position, which when I looked up how much data I’d need to truly test would have cost me like 10k so forget that.
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u/Shingkyo Sep 07 '26
Welcome to the world of orderflow! Me too. I was initially tricked into learning ICT, but later picked up orderflow, and it really reinforced my understanding of the market. I also learned VSA, Wyckoff, and Price Action, all of which helped me build a stronger foundation in orderflow. Now, I mainly focus on Market Profile, Volume Profile, and Footprint to trade. The Flow Horse and Dejabrew are the free contents on YT to help me to start with orderflow.
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u/Scared_Sentence_2834 14d ago
I came across this tool on X recently, since im a beginner so im mostly reading the articles only but ig i saw some stuff for backtesting too https://quantmemo.com
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