Monday, May 4, 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
−$6,255
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
2 won, 6 lost
The market that day
- UAE accuses Iran of attacks as 'large fire' breaks out at oil refinery
Drone and missile strikes on an Emirati oil facility raised fears of a wider Gulf conflict, pushing oil higher and pressuring US stock index futures.
Al Jazeera
- Fujairah Oil Terminal Hit by Drone Strike in UAE, Fire Reported at Facility
Confirmation that a major Gulf oil terminal was struck deepened supply worries, lifting oil and weighing on equity futures over energy-cost concerns.
Bloomberg
- Strait of Hormuz hostilities: Trump's 'Project Freedom' sparks firefight as US-Iran ceasefire fractures
A direct US-Iran military exchange while escorting tankers raised doubts about the Gulf ceasefire, adding risk-off pressure on stock index futures.
NBC Palm Springs
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 → 11:19 · Stop
−$1,320
−65.50 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:19 · Stop
−$1,670
−83.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:19 · Stop
−$1,670
−83.00 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:20 · Stop
−$2,135
−106.25 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:20 · Stop
−$2,135
−106.25 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
−$175
−8.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 12:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$1,545
+77.75 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 12:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$1,305
+65.75 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).