Tuesday, January 13, 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, 3 winners
Day's net
−$570
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
3 won, 5 lost
The market that day
- S&P 500 books back-to-back losses as tech sells off, Bank of America slides after earnings: Live updates
Broad tech weakness and a bank-earnings-driven selloff in financials pressured both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, weighing on ES and NQ through the session.
CNBC
- Oil prices rise more than 2% after Trump cancels meetings with Iran, tells protesters help is on the way
Rising oil prices on escalating Iran tensions added to risk-off sentiment that weighed on stock index futures, including NQ.
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
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 10:30 → 10:55 · Stop
−$970
−48.00 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
short NQ · 10:30 → 11:06 · Stop
−$1,290
−64.00 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 11:06 · Stop
−$1,290
−64.00 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 10:30 → 11:17 · Stop
−$1,660
−82.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 11:17 · Stop
−$1,660
−82.50 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:42 · Target
+$2,530
+127.00 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 12:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$2,525
+126.75 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 12:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$1,245
+62.75 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).