Monday, August 3, 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, 7 winners
Day's net
+$23,320
All strategies, after costs
Trades
8
7 won, 1 lost
The market that day
- Oil prices drop to three-week low after Trump cancels Iran attack
Falling oil eased inflation fears and lifted risk appetite, helping pull both ES and NQ higher through the session.
Detroit News
- Amazon tops $3 trillion market cap as stock continues post-earnings surge
Strong big-tech earnings drove a broad tech rally that pushed NQ sharply higher during the session.
CNBC
- Manufacturing survey shows inflation worries 'worse than pandemic era,' adding to Fed pressure
A hotter-than-expected inflation read in the manufacturing survey added uncertainty about the Fed's next move, adding volatility to ES and NQ.
CNBC
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
−$2,455
−122.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$4,790
+240.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$4,580
+229.50 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$4,695
+235.25 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$4,695
+235.25 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$4,470
+224.00 pts
- Late-Morning Momentum
long NQ · 11:00 → 15:45 · Time exit
+$2,265
+113.75 pts
- Breadth Rotation
short NQ · 12:30 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$280
+14.50 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).