Thursday, May 7, 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, 3 winners
Day's net
−$2,205
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
3 won, 5 lost
The market that day
- S&P 500 closes at another record, notches longest weekly winning streak since 2024: Live updates
A stronger-than-expected April jobs report eased growth worries and pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to fresh records, lifting both ES and NQ.
CNBC
- Breakfast News: Arm's Growth Story Hits Speed Bump
Arm's earnings beat but smartphone-market warning added two-way volatility to chip and Nasdaq-100 sentiment, affecting NQ.
The Motley Fool
- Stock Market Today (LIVE): DDOG Surpasses $1 Billion and Is Accelerating; Will Iran Talks Save the Market?
Rising expectations that Iran would accept a US-brokered peace proposal eased geopolitical risk and pulled oil lower, supporting risk appetite in ES and NQ.
The Motley Fool
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 → 10:55 · Stop
−$1,145
−56.75 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:57 · Stop
−$1,570
−78.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:57 · Stop
−$1,570
−78.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:58 · Stop
−$1,855
−92.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 10:30 → 12:15 · Target
+$4,250
+213.00 pts
- Breadth Rotation
short NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$865
+43.75 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 13:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
−$1,770
−88.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 14:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$590
+30.00 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).