Monday, April 20, 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, 4 winners
Day's net
−$4,465
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
4 won, 4 lost
The market that day
- Hormuz Tension Snaps Nasdaq Win Streak: Stock Market Today
A collapsed Iran ceasefire and reclosed Strait of Hormuz drove a broad risk-off move that pulled index futures lower through the day.
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The trades
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:51 · Stop
−$1,915
−95.25 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:51 · Stop
−$1,185
−58.75 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$35
+2.25 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$35
+2.25 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
−$325
−15.75 pts
- Late-Morning Momentum
short NQ · 11:00 → 14:08 · Stop
−$1,825
−90.75 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$75
+4.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 12:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$640
+32.50 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).