Wednesday, July 8, 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
−$16,610
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
2 won, 6 lost
The market that day
- Oil prices jump more than 4% after Trump threatens to bomb Iran and reimpose naval blockade
The sudden oil price spike raised inflation and cost worries that pressured stock index futures during the session.
CNBC
- Fed meeting minutes to show 'family fight' over rates. The squabble could drag on for a while
A visibly divided Fed raised the odds markets placed on rates staying higher for longer, adding pressure on rate-sensitive futures.
CNBC
- Stock market today: Nasdaq rises, Dow and S&P 500 retreat as oil prices climb on renewed US-Iran tensions
It shows how the renewed Iran tensions pushed ES lower during the session while NQ managed to hold up better.
Yahoo Finance
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 → 10:47 · Stop
−$1,915
−95.25 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:50 · Stop
−$2,570
−128.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:50 · Stop
−$2,570
−128.00 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 11:14 · Stop
−$3,100
−154.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 13:30 · Stop
−$3,100
−154.50 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$1,945
+97.75 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 12:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$1,530
+77.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 15:00 → 09:30 · Time exit
−$6,830
−341.00 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).