Friday, January 30, 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, 2 winners
Day's net
−$8,635
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
2 won, 6 lost
The market that day
- Trump taps Kevin Warsh to chair Federal Reserve
The nomination shifted expectations for the pace of Fed rate decisions, moving S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures as traders repriced policy risk.
NBC News
- Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles as Warsh pick eases Fed independence fear
The same Fed nomination set off a broad reset in precious metals and risk assets, adding to volatility in stock index futures that session.
CNBC
- How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 1/30/2026
This market wrap captured the across-the-board slide in US stocks as investors weighed what the incoming Fed chair could mean for interest rates.
The Associated Press
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 → 10:35 · Stop
−$1,635
−81.25 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 10:30 → 10:35 · Stop
−$1,610
−80.00 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 10:42 · Stop
−$2,140
−106.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 10:47 · Stop
−$2,650
−132.00 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 12:08 · Stop
−$2,140
−106.50 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 13:12 · Stop
−$2,650
−132.00 pts
- Breadth Rotation
short NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$2,050
+103.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 12:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$2,140
+107.50 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).