Trend Following Traders Community
A research lab for directional, automated and data-driven strategies — since 2009
A data-driven business, with replicable and transferable processes, far from any form of emotional or instinctive trading.
We turn trading from a solitary activity into a collaborative business: research, method and artificial intelligence, together.
The community and training courses currently run in Italian only — an English version will be available soon. The eBooks and quantitative strategies are already available in English.
The lab
Research, data and collaboration
The community operates like a hedge fund: traders are trained with structured programs, selected through mandatory tests and placed into working teams to develop and test new strategies together.
Since 2009 · the approach
Stefano Mastria trades full-time using the principles of Trend Following: a systematic method that exploits wide market swings through careful planning and attentive risk management.
Since 2014 · the community
Trend Following Traders Business Community was born, with the goal of turning trading into a collaborative business. Today it counts over 850 users, organized into research teams.
Today · artificial intelligence
Thanks to the integration of AI — in particular with Claude Code — we have developed a proprietary platform with advanced tools, accessible directly to members.
The edge · the data
Concrete resources built in-house — strategy databases, production accounts, analyses and backtests — that reflect the lab’s daily research work.
The project
A research lab, not a promise of profit
Users build a competitive edge using advanced tools and strategies — typical of a large hedge fund, but made simple for those willing to commit and study.
From a large hedge fund
Research, quant engines and institutional-grade technology, placed in the hands of end users.
You take part to study and improve
You join the lab to learn, test and refine: the result depends on the user’s commitment and study.
Quant strategies powered by AI
Innovative quantitative strategies, made possible by a targeted use of artificial intelligence.
No promise of profit
TFT provides tools, training and technology, not return promises. Users take part in the lab to study, test and use advanced quantitative strategies: results depend on their commitment. Trading involves risk.
How we operate
Three approaches, one philosophy
Small, precise stops; high returns when the market allows it.
Directional Trading
The Cash-AR 2026 method and its 5 operational signals. Manual operation on real market conditions, with small stops and attentive risk management.
Semi-Automatic AI Trading
Manual operation enhanced by automation: Power Tools for balance control and proprietary indicators that assist decisions.
Quantitative AI Trading
Hundreds of strategies built with StrategyQuant and optimized by the Realistic Engine AI and Nature Law AI Quant engines, running 24 hours a day.
The proprietary platform
The resources for members
A competitive edge once reserved for large funds, built in-house with AI.
Artificial intelligence
The two AI optimization engines
The AI that optimizes StrategyQuant strategies, validating them on real market data.
Dynamically optimizes strategies on variables such as risk, monthly drawdown limit, break-even stop, profit targets and trailing stop, recalculating the data over 9 years of market swings. Base: you use the optimizations published by Stefano · Premium: you optimize on your own.
The advanced system in which the AI formulates complex algorithms, based on 3 risk-management modules:
Evaluates the last 24 hours of market — the previous day’s session and the night before — and blocks entries in contextually unfavorable setups, where the strategy has historically never produced big winners.
At the N-th hour from opening it assesses whether the MFE reached is sufficient: if it is weak, it moves the SL to break-even to avoid a full Stop-Loss on weak signals.
Monitors M5 pivots (HH/HL/LH/LL) in real time and, when the dynamics turn against the trade, moves the SL to a % of the peak to capture a portion of the profit.
Training path
4 courses, step by step
From the fundamentals to the creation of innovative strategies. Each course accumulates training credits that unlock new benefits.
| 1 |
Startup
The basics of trading and markets: trends, bar charts, Dow Theory, the 4 phases, psychology and risk management.
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Student Level |
| 2 |
ADV1
The logic of 3 trading strategies, to understand the fundamentals of the business.
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+ Training credits |
| 3 |
ADV2
Research and planning like a hedge fund, adapted to the private trader: you plan first, you trade better afterwards.
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ADV2 Level |
| 4 |
ADV2+
5 methods to create hundreds of innovative strategies and the Cash-AR 2026 method, Stefano’s best directional strategy.
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ADV2+ → Community Trader |
Start here
Free eBooks and Community membership
Study with the free material, then join the lab.
Free eBooks
Direct, data-driven training material, to download and share.
- The Trader’s Mind — psychology and discipline
- Trend Following in 2026 — the complete book (IT/EN)
- More mini guides coming soon
Community · Base & Premium
Two membership levels. With Premium you unlock Nature Law AI, optimization credits and 1:1 coaching.
- Strategy DB, Research and Production Accounts
- Power Tools, Indicators, Analysis Pages
- Working teams and members-only LIVE sessions
The Community
Join the research lab
By activating your TFT Community membership you get access to all of this.
The purpose of the project
All the community’s fees and proceeds are collected to fund research activities and improve the project, with the goal of improving the trading of the whole team. This has always been the purpose of the project, ever since its birth in 2014.
The project is designed to work in a way similar to a hedge fund: users are trained and selected to become part of the working teams, where they carry out research and trading. The results — both research and production, deriving from everyone’s trading — benefit every member, not just the fund.
- Training course for those starting from scratch
- Training credits to access more resources
- Video lessons and tests
- Study and practice to understand directional and automated trading
- Proprietary TradingView indicators (overnight data analysis)
- AI Power Tools, directional and quantitative
- Members-only LIVE sessions 2-3 times a week to study and improve together
- Automated Quantitative Strategy DB ready to use, with reserved slots for each user (over 100 strategies built on a 9-year data set with StrategyQuant X)
- Strategies optimized with Realistic Engine AI — bookable slots reserved for a limited number of users
- The complete Cash-AR 2026 method — the 5 operational signals with real-time setups
- Analysis and backtest pages to study and validate methods
- Working teams for quantitative trading with AI (Claude Code + StrategyQuant X)
- Research and Production Accounts with an AI analysis system
- Algo Fund Ideas section to design synergies between strategies across multiple accounts
- Constantly updated knowledge base
- Trackable strategy results — successes and failures, total transparency
- Direct support from Stefano and the team, active since 2014
- Nature Law AI Quant — advanced optimization with the OWL · FALCON · WOLF modules
- Nature Law AI strategy slots bookable and dedicated, for a limited number of users
- Realistic Engine AI editor — optimize strategies on your own
- Optimization credits — to optimize strategies on your own with Realistic Engine AI
- Details Panel with equity curve and comparison
- The possibility of becoming a community Publisher
- One to One Coaching with Stefano Mastria
Track record
Real, verifiable results
We operate with real production accounts, synchronized and trackable — successes and failures, in full transparency. No promise of profit: just data.
Partners
To grow our business we work with
The roots
The masters who inspired us
The path is built on the greats of Trend Following and quantitative analysis.
The blog
Explore the topics
Articles, guides, profiles and podcasts — constantly updated.
Are you a broker or a prop firm?
Offer your clients the TFT community and quantitative strategies with a dedicated Business package: Base/Premium user packages and strategy slots, tailored to you.
Ready to start?
Join the lab. Even if you start from scratch.
Study trading and contribute to the development of the business, with method, data and a team active since 2014.
Welcome. On this blog I share with everyone my reflections and studies on forex and trading in general. All the material made available is for educational purposes. In no way is the information provided an invitation to trade.
Trading forex is a risky business, especially for those who lack the right preparation. The material provided is an invitation to study and improve your knowledge of the subject.
Also remember that the market rewards the most capable, not the most needy. In fact it harshly punishes the needy who lack experience and are in too much of a hurry.