Veteran Army Nasdaq

Start with the loss, not the profit. First decide how deep a drawdown you are willing to sit through — 5-10%, 20-30%, or more — and then let the system go after returns inside that limit. That is the order Veteran Army Nasdaq works in. And because no one knows when the index will make its next real move — or in which direction — it stands ready on both sides of one market, with many independent systems instead of one confident bet.

At a glance

• Market: US Tech 100 index, long and short, on the H1 and H4 timeframe
• Risk control: fixed stop on every trade, three risk presets, no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
• Activity: around 120 trades a month across the whole portfolio (backtest average)
• Account: hedging required
• Verification: live signal on a real account https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2388158

Are you tired of unexpected losses?

You choose your maximum drawdown up front. Conservative, Moderate and Aggressive place the same trades and differ only in position size; each comes with a drawdown range from Monte Carlo stress testing, and the screenshots in the gallery show the result of every profile. Nothing about the risk is left for you to find out the hard way.

Do you think good profits require big risk?

Decent profit and a low drawdown target can go together. This system is built to get the most return out of each unit of drawdown, not the most return overall. Every trade carries a fixed stop from the second it opens, and position sizes are calibrated to the index's volatility. There is no grid, no martingale and no averaging down anywhere in it.

Do you think an index robot just rides the market up?

That is exactly what this portfolio was built not to do. Its members trade both directions, and every one of them had to live through 2022 — a full bear year — without depending on the index rising. Some earn on the way up, some on the way down, and in a market that offers nothing, most of them simply stay flat. The account is not a leveraged bet on the Nasdaq going higher.

Do spread, overnight costs and fast moves eat your profits?

When a system chases small intraday moves, costs decide whether it wins or loses. This portfolio works the other way. It trades on the H1 and H4 timeframe and holds positions for days, not minutes, so it is never in a race to be first. Each trade goes after a move far larger than the cost of opening it, and commission and overnight financing are already included in the backtests shown on this page.

So here is Veteran Army Nasdaq. It starts from the loss and works backwards. It does not forecast; it stands ready. There is no hero trade, no rescue grid, no single point of failure.

Think of it as a specialist unit on a single, demanding front. Every member is a veteran of one job in this market, and it does that job only when the conditions it was trained for are actually present. Some are built to move with a trend already underway. Others hold back and take the pullback inside that move. A few work the short side and earn their keep in bad years. Each carries a fixed stop from the moment it engages, and standing orders to stay out when the market offers nothing: in a flat market its entry level is simply never reached, so the account stays light instead of manufacturing trades. Engage on the objective, or don't engage at all.

The models work from price structure: entries sit at reference levels the market itself creates — previous daily and weekly extremes, session highs and lows, recent range boundaries — and are only taken when volatility confirms the move. A position is closed when its stop is hit, when its target is reached, when the conditions behind it disappear, or when a set number of bars has passed without the expected move. More than a decade of price history stands behind the models.

Many small, weakly related positions beat one large confident one for a reason that predates all of us: the diversification effect at the heart of modern portfolio theory. Here the breadth comes not from many markets but from many independent ways of reading the same market — different setups, different holding times, different sides. Bad patches that rarely overlap add up to much less damage than they would alone. The edge is meant to come from breadth, never from leverage.

One file, self-contained. No DLLs, no indicators to install, no settings to tune. Attach it to any chart and the portfolio runs.

Live verification signal (Aggressive preset, real account), started 25.08.2026: https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2388158

Account type: a hedging account is required.

Your broker must offer the US Tech 100 index CFD — commonly listed as NAS100, US100 or USTEC (broker symbol names are detected automatically; if yours uses a different name, set it in the inputs).

Single-path backtest drawdowns understate risk: the Monte Carlo range for each profile is the planning number. In live use, withdraw profits periodically instead of compounding indefinitely. Past performance, simulated or real, does not guarantee future results.

To try the demo quickly, run the Strategy Tester with "1 minute OHLC" modeling with H1 time frame — enough to see the portfolio place and manage trades, without downloading full tick data. It is a functional check, not a reproduction of the figures above.