Friday, May 15, 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.
6 trades on NQ, 3 winners
Day's net
+$2,660
All strategies, after costs
Trades
6
3 won, 3 lost
The market that day
- How major US stock indexes fared Friday 5/15/2026
Rising oil prices fed inflation worries and pushed Treasury yields higher, pressuring both ES and NQ futures through the session.
The Associated Press
- Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink as bond yields jump to cap volatile week ahead of Nvidia earnings
A sharp jump in bond yields on inflation concerns weighed on both index futures, with the tech-heavy NQ hit harder than ES.
Yahoo Finance UK
- 30-year Treasury yield tops 5.1%, highest in nearly a year
Hotter-than-expected inflation data drove yields sharply higher, pressuring rate-sensitive growth names and weighing on both ES and NQ.
CNBC
- Nvidia Stock Sank Today. Is It a Buy With Earnings Due Next Week?
A steep drop in Nvidia shares ahead of its earnings pulled the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 down more than the S&P 500, hitting NQ futures hardest.
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
long NQ · 10:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$600
+30.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 13:34 · Stop
−$2,910
−145.00 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$3,090
+155.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$1,940
+97.50 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
−$30
−1.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
−$30
−1.00 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).