I've spent more than three years trading futures — studying strategies, passing funded account evaluations, building automated systems, making money and, plenty of times, giving it back.

Eventually I realized that finding a trading strategy wasn't necessarily my biggest problem.

Following one consistently was.

That realization pushed me toward systematic and automated trading. Instead of relying on myself to make the right decision in the heat of the moment, I'm exploring what happens when the rules are defined in advance and technology handles the execution.

Bottom Line Cents is where I document that journey while sharing what I've learned about futures trading, strategies, automation and the tools I've used along the way.

I'm not here to pretend every strategy works. I want to test ideas, share the results and learn from both the winners and the failures.