Friday, April 24, 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.
5 trades on NQ, 5 winners
Day's net
+$21,890
All strategies, after costs
Trades
5
5 won, 0 lost
The market that day
- Intel's stock has best day since 1987, soaring 24% as chipmaker shows signs of a turnaround
Intel's blowout earnings sparked a broad rally in chip stocks that lifted the tech-heavy market and, with it, NQ futures.
CNBC
- Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's record close added further strength to the mega-cap tech group that heavily influences both ES and NQ futures.
CNBC
- DOJ drops criminal probe into Fed chair Jerome Powell
Removing political uncertainty around the Fed chair reduced a source of rate-policy risk priced into ES and NQ.
Axios
- Witkoff and Kushner to meet Iranian foreign minister in Pakistan: White House
Signs of progress toward easing the Iran conflict reduced geopolitical risk premiums, supporting broad index futures.
Axios
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
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:45 · Target
+$4,095
+205.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$4,615
+231.25 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$4,120
+206.50 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$4,420
+221.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$4,640
+232.50 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).