Thursday, January 29, 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.
11 trades on NQ, 3 winners
Day's net
−$9,265
All strategies, after costs
Trades
11
3 won, 8 lost
The market that day
- Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
Microsoft's heavy weight in the Nasdaq-100 meant its earnings-day drop pulled hard on NQ.
CNBC
- Meta stock climbs on Q4 earnings beat, plans to spend as much as $135 billion on AI build-out in 2026
Meta's rally on strong guidance offset some of the tech-sector pressure, cushioning NQ's decline.
Yahoo Finance
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
short NQ · 10:30 → 10:50 · Target
+$3,225
+161.75 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:13 · Stop
−$1,290
−64.00 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:21 · Stop
−$1,715
−85.25 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:21 · Stop
−$1,715
−85.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:23 · Stop
−$2,115
−105.25 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:23 · Stop
−$2,115
−105.25 pts
- Late-Morning Momentum
short NQ · 11:00 → 11:20 · Stop
−$2,435
−121.25 pts
- Breadth Rotation
short NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$1,565
+78.75 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 13:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$180
+9.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 14:30 → 15:57 · Stop
−$2,540
−126.50 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 15:00 → 09:30 · Time exit
−$310
−15.00 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).