Mavix · early access · Nasdaq futures
Know Why Your Trading Works, Or Doesn’t.
Mav, the assistant inside Mavix, looks back at the strategies you test, checks them against more than ten years of Nasdaq history, and tells you what to change.
NQ1!
Nasdaq 100 futures · one past morning
15,339.25
+0.66%
Mav’s findings
View all- Skipping quiet mornings: +$40 a trade, up from +$20.
- Quiet mornings lost $21 a trade.
- Busy mornings made +$45 a trade.
02 · Investigate
Drop in a screenshot from any chart. Mav reads it, explains what happened in plain English, and tells you what to test next.
Drop a screenshot of a trade
From any charting platform · PNG or JPG
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What happened in these trades?nq-1m-aug-20.png
Mav
Nasdaq futures, 1-minute chart, Thursday 20 August. Price fell most of the day, from about 29,690 to 29,240.
1Short at about 29,660 around 3:05, after a push to the high stalled. Target hit by 3:30: +$360 risking $100.
2Short at about 29,400 just after 11:00, when a spike above the blue line failed. Target hit by 11:30: +$180 risking $100.
Both sold a failed push higher. Your indicator is right only 44% of the time, so test this over years, not one day.
Prices are read from the screenshot, so they’re approximate.
03 · Evidence
How often it happened, how it usually turned out, and what was different on the days it worked.
Most early jumps didn’t last: 59% fell back within 30 minutes.
- Mornings like this
- 312
- 2015-2025
- History checked
- 11 years
- Nasdaq futures
How far the price moved over the next hour
Index points
184 fell
rose 128
- Kept going
- Still above last night’s high 30 minutes later.
- Fell back
- Dropped back below it within 30 minutes.
- One index point
- About $20 on a full-size Nasdaq contract.
What made a difference
The wider market rising too mattered most.
- The wider market was rising tooKept going58%kept going when this was true,Otherwise33%otherwise.
- It happened after 9:45Kept going46%kept going when this was true,Otherwise35%otherwise.
- The night before was quietKept going29%kept going when this was true,Otherwise49%otherwise.
04 · Why
Knowing an idea lost money isn’t enough. Mav shows you why, in plain words, with the proof next to each reason.
- 01
Quiet mornings lost money.
On calm, slow mornings this idea usually lost. On normal and busy mornings it made money.
Result by type of morningExampleQuiet−$21 a tradeNormal+$37 a tradeBusy+$45 a tradeAverage per trade, by type of morning, 2016 to 2025. Dollars as if risking $100 a trade.
- 02
It stopped making money after 2022.
It made money from 2016 to 2022. In the three years Mav kept aside to check it fairly, it didn’t.
Before and afterExample2016 to 2022+$2,181 a year2023 to 2025−$861 a yearAverage per year, before and after. Dollars as if risking $100 a trade.
- 03
Fees took 16% of the profit.
The trades were small and quick, so trading costs ate a big part of every win.
Where the profit wentExampleWent to fees: 16%You kept: 84%What happened to the profit
Example idea with sample data.
Every number opens to the trades behind it.
Watch any past trade play out, minute by minute, and see why it happened.
Tuesday, busy market. The overnight range was 0.74 times its usual size. The opening range formed from 09:30 to 09:45 ET, high 15,261.75, low 15,229.75. At 09:52 a 1-minute candle closed above the range high and the trade was entered at 15,267.50, with a stop loss at 15,229.75 and a profit target at 15,343.00. The target was hit at 10:27, after 35 minutes. At its worst the trade was down −0.60× the risk. The result after fees was +1.98× the risk, where R is the amount risked.
Example trade with sample data. Replay covers sessions from 2015 to 2023.
05 · Test
Describe a trading idea in plain words. Mav turns it into clear rules and checks how it would have done in the past, before you risk any money.
Example test of a morning breakout idea on 2,514 trading days from 2016-2025: 648 trades. It made money from 2016-2022, the years the idea was built on. From 2023-2025, the years kept aside to check it fairly, it stopped making money. Fees took 16% of the profit.
Buy the Nasdaq when its price rises above the high of the first 15 minutes of the day. Get out if it falls back to the low of those 15 minutes, or take profit at twice what I risked.
Mav turned it into these rules
- When9:30 to 11:30 in the morning. One trade a day at most.
- BuyWhen the price closes above the highest point of the first 15 minutes.
- Cut the lossIf the price falls to the lowest point of the first 15 minutes.
- Take profitWhen the gain is twice the amount at risk.
- FeesReal trading costs are taken off every trade.
Checked all 2,514 trading days from 2016 to 2025.
Money made or lost over time, after fees
Shaded: the years Mav kept aside to check the idea fairly.
- Trades
- 648
- Open any one
- 2016 to 2022
- Made money
- Used to build the idea
- 2023 to 2025
- Stopped making money
- −$2,584 overall
- Fees
- 16%
- Of the profit
Same rules, same data, same answer every time.
06 · Memory
Every test and finding is saved with where it came from, so the next time you ask, Mav builds on what you already learned.
I want to try a new breakout idea at the open.
Mav
You’ve tested this kind of idea before. In four of your strategies, quiet mornings caused most of the losses, so I’ll check quiet mornings first and compare them with busy ones.
Where that came from, in your Research Memory:
Finding
Quiet mornings lose money
Seen in 4 of your ideas
- Came from
Morning breakout, version 1
Morning breakout, version 2
- Used in
Idea: skip quiet mornings
07 · Founding Member
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The terms
- Limited to the first 100 paying members.
- $40/month, billed monthly.
- Your founding rate stays $40/month while your subscription stays continuously active.
- Cancel anytime. Cancelling ends the founding rate.
- Includes this plan’s features and usage allowance. It does not include future plans or unlimited Mav questions or backtests.
Requesting access doesn’t charge you or reserve a spot.
What you can use today
- Mav
- Answers questions about your strategies from your own research.
- Strategy Research
- Turns an idea into clear rules and tests it on 10+ years of history.
- Replay
- Plays any past trade minute by minute, with the rule that triggered it.
- Research Memory
- Keeps every test and finding, and where each came from.
- Strategy Vault
- Holds your strategies and every version of them.
- Observatory
- Opens any past trading day so you can look around it.
In development, not available yet: the Trade Journal, for bringing in the trades you actually take.
Founding Member access is $40/month for the first 100 paying members, built for Nasdaq futures with more than ten years of history.
What happens next
- 1Request founding access with your email. Nothing is charged and no spot is reserved.
- 2We email you about the next steps for becoming a Founding Member.
- 3Describe your first strategy, and Mav helps you test it.
Mavix gives you research and context to support your decisions. It does not place trades or make investment decisions for you. Historical results do not guarantee future performance.