Tuesday, April 21, 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.
10 trades on NQ, 9 winners
Day's net
+$20,395
All strategies, after costs
Trades
10
9 won, 1 lost
The market that day
- Vance trip to Pakistan for Iran talks is on hold, NYT reports
Fading hopes for extending the US-Iran ceasefire spooked stock futures ahead of the deadline.
CNBC
- U.S. stocks slip and oil prices rise on uncertainty about U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks
A jump in oil prices on ceasefire doubts weighed on broader risk sentiment, pressuring ES and NQ.
BNN Bloomberg (AP)
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 → 11:00 · Target
+$2,655
+133.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 10:30 → 13:06 · Target
+$3,990
+200.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 13:06 · Target
+$3,990
+200.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$2,350
+118.00 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$1,285
+64.75 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$1,285
+64.75 pts
- Late-Morning Momentum
short NQ · 11:00 → 15:43 · Target
+$3,165
+158.75 pts
- Breadth Rotation
short NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$660
+33.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 14:30 → 15:31 · Stop
−$2,110
−105.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 15:00 → 09:30 · Time exit
+$3,125
+156.75 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).