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Nick Does Futures · provisional setup from posts/catalogue: Power of Three (Asia–London–NY)
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No Nick template. Generic po3_midnight_open.yaml is a midnight-open model, not his Asia/London/NY sequence.
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Source notes so far (draft, not a template, not used as an A+ gate)
@NickDoesFutures X post (nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png), quoted verbatim on the page.
01. Instrument & data
Enable ........................... not stated
Instrument ...................... not stated
ExecutionTimeframe .............. not stated02. Sessions
Enable ........................... True
Sessions ........................ Asia builds the range → London takes one side → NY fakes, then reverses [X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png]03. Bias
Enable ........................... not stated
BiasMethod ...................... not stated04. Setup
Enable ........................... True
MarkAsiaRange ................... True (liquidity map) [X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png]
LondonSweepsOneSide ............. True [X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png]
NYFakeContinuation .............. True, then reversal [X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png]05. Entry
Enable ........................... not stated
EntryTrigger .................... not stated06. Stop loss
Enable ........................... not stated
StopMode ........................ not stated07. Take profit
Enable ........................... True
TargetMode ...................... The untapped Asia side London left behind [X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png]08. Risk & limits
Enable ........................... not stated
MaxTradesPerDay ................. not stated
RiskPerTrade .................... not stated09. Filters
Enable ........................... not stated
NewsFilter ...................... not stated
Asia range marked · X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png
London swept exactly one side (highs or lows) · X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png
NY fakes a continuation beyond London's move · X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png
Trade back toward the untapped Asia side · X nick_power_of_three_2026-10-01.png
PENDING: entry trigger, stop and timing, not in his material yet (needs a watch pass)
Testing rules
Tuning 1 Jan – 30 Apr · four months testOut-of-sample 1 May – 31 Jul · three months testHoldout 1 Aug – 14 Sep · about six weeks testCommission $5 round turn, NQ
01
Lock the rules before testing
Every rule is written in full as a parameter list (sessions, setup conditions, entry, stop, target, max trades, bias) with a version number and a date before any data is run. Nothing changes once testing starts. Any change is a new version, and that version starts again at rule 1.
Name the instrument and the data file. Times are New York time, prices are rounded to the tick, and contract roll weeks are removed. The same cleaned data is used in every window.
This is the only window where settings can be adjusted. Rank settings by net profit after commission. Anything with fewer than 100 trades doesn't qualify. Keep the top 20 and lock them.
Out-of-sample: 1 May to 31 Jul (three months test)
Run the locked settings once, exactly as they are. No changes after seeing the results. A setting passes if it makes a net profit and has a profit factor above 1.
A trade only counts if it passes the trader's written A-plus checklist at entry: right session, liquidity swept, bias agrees, entry model confirmed, and stop and target where the checklist says. Failures are logged as B or C trades and kept out of the results.
Every known real A-plus trade from the trader's videos or posts is traced through the A-plus definition, each filter (session, bias, sweep, timeframe, news, caps), the Roman/ZZ entry path (trigger, confirmation, order type, expiry) and the fill. Record the exact step where each one dies. Misses are fixed in the next version, never the current one.
Every result shows, in order: test number, instrument, length in words, average trade, profit factor, win rate, equity curve; then average signed ticks, trade count and drawdown.
Windows run in order, with no extra out-of-sample passes and no retuning after a peek. Under 100 trades or under about three months is a diagnostic, not a pass.