Thursday, July 30, 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.
7 trades on NQ, 3 winners
Day's net
−$7,605
All strategies, after costs
Trades
7
3 won, 4 lost
The market that day
- Meta sinks 8%, continuing record losing streak, while Microsoft jumps 15% as AI trade splits
A huge earnings-driven jump in Microsoft and a sharp drop in Meta pulled Nasdaq-100 futures sharply in opposite directions within tech, driving volatility in NQ.
CNBC
- Microsoft's stock has biggest one-day gain since 2008, adding $480 billion in market value as cloud business booms
The scale of Microsoft's rally, its biggest one-day gain in nearly two decades, gave an outsized lift to Nasdaq-100 futures given the stock's large index weight.
Fortune
- Nasdaq 100's Best Day Since May 2025: 10 Stocks Drive the Move
A handful of mega-cap and chip stocks drove the Nasdaq-100's strongest session in over a year, extending the rally that lifted NQ futures through the day.
Benzinga
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 → 10:55 · Stop
−$3,355
−167.25 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 10:55 · Stop
−$3,655
−182.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
−$990
−49.00 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$350
+18.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$350
+18.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$40
+2.50 pts
- Breadth Rotation
long NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
−$345
−16.75 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).