Trade results

Backtest and recorded live, session by session.

7 rule-based strategies on the Nasdaq-100 (NQ) futures, each of which passed every gate of our screen before it was added. Here: a backtest of our NQ strategies from Jan 2, 2026, and every trade recorded live since Oct 21, 2026. Every session is written up, win or lose, beside the news that moved the market. All of it is hypothetical: no order was filled.

Through Friday, October 23, 2026.

The record

BacktestJan 2, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026

Net: +$582,215
Max drawdown: −$82,290
Trades: 1,433
Won: 50%

The strategies re-run afterwards over each session; never recorded live, and overlapping the research that selected them. 201 sessions, every strategy at one contract, after two ticks a round trip.

Recorded liveSince Oct 21, 2026

Net: +$28,685
Max drawdown: −$9,720
Trades: 23
Won: 52%

Each trade as our engine generated it during the session. Still simulated: no order was filled. 3 sessions, every strategy at one contract, after two ticks a round trip.

Latest · Friday, October 23, 2026 Recorded live

Oil surge and tech jitters pull stocks lower; our strategies mostly lost on NQ trades

Oil prices jumped on Middle East tension worries, adding to a tech-stock pullback that had started the day before, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed lower. Our strategies traded Nasdaq futures nine times, with six long bets and three short bets; most lost, three got stopped out, and the rest closed at their scheduled exit time.

−$7,920 on the day9 trades · 2 won · 7 lostRead the day →

Hypothetical results.

Every figure here is hypothetical: simulated entries and exits from our engine. One contract per strategy, after two ticks a round trip for commission and slippage. Nothing here is advice or a recommendation to trade.

These results are based on simulated or hypothetical performance results that have certain inherent limitations. Unlike the results shown in an actual performance record, these results do not represent actual trading. Also, because these trades have not actually been executed, these results may have under-or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated or hypothetical trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to these being shown.

Results by strategy

Each strategy on its own over the 2026 record on this page, backtest and recorded live together, one contract, after two ticks a round trip. Pick one for its whole history from its first backtest session, with the two parts marked, and every trade it took.

Strategy	Market	Trades	Won	2026 net	Max drawdown
Global Confluence	NQ	171	49%	+$89,845	−$16,725
Flow Against Breadth	NQ	149	46%	+$85,065	−$20,365
Day & Night Relay	NQ	242	48%	+$115,670	−$29,370
Breadth Rotation	NQ	298	47%	+$56,550	−$20,170
Crude Crosscurrent	NQ	278	51%	+$121,870	−$31,035
Late-Morning Momentum	NQ	58	53%	+$34,245	−$13,145
Triple Relative Strength	NQ	260	55%	+$107,655	−$36,145

Hypothetical results.

Every figure here is hypothetical: simulated entries and exits from our engine. One contract per strategy, after two ticks a round trip for commission and slippage. Nothing here is advice or a recommendation to trade.

These results are based on simulated or hypothetical performance results that have certain inherent limitations. Unlike the results shown in an actual performance record, these results do not represent actual trading. Also, because these trades have not actually been executed, these results may have under-or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated or hypothetical trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to these being shown.

Every session204

The strategies

What each one reads, and when it trades →

Plain-English notes on all 7: the data each one reads and its trading hours.

The ledger

Every idea we ever screened →

Where these strategies came from: the full screening record, failures included, searchable and free.