Monday, January 12, 2026 Backtest
Backtest: the strategies re-run afterwards over this day's data, never recorded live. It overlaps the research that selected them, so it carries hindsight.
8 trades on NQ, 5 winners
Day's net
+$1,085
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
5 won, 3 lost
The market that day
- Fed Chair Powell says he's under criminal investigation, won't bow to Trump intimidation
A DOJ criminal probe into the sitting Fed chair raised fears about central bank independence, adding volatility for ES and NQ during the session.
CNBC
- Bank stocks slide after Trump calls for credit card interest rate limit
Trump's proposed cap on credit card rates hit major bank shares hard, weighing on the S&P 500 (ES) during the session.
CNBC
News picked by AI from that day’s reporting; links go to the original stories. The trades and figures come straight from our engine.
The trades
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:45 · Stop
−$1,150
−57.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:45 · Stop
−$1,095
−54.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$1,125
+56.75 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$1,400
+70.50 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$1,400
+70.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$600
+30.50 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$105
+5.75 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 15:00 → 09:30 · Time exit
−$1,300
−64.50 pts
How to read it: every strategy enters at the close of a 30-minute bar and leaves at its stop, its target, or its time exit, whichever comes first. Points are the move captured; net is one contract after two ticks of costs (NQ $20 a point, ES $50).