Tuesday, August 4, 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, 7 winners
Day's net
+$41,600
All strategies, after costs
Trades
7
7 won, 0 lost
The market that day
- Palantir stock skyrockets 29%, narrowly missing its best day ever after 'otherworldly' results
Palantir's blowout earnings sent its heavily-weighted shares surging, lifting tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 and NQ futures.
CNBC
- Caterpillar Stock Jumps, Lifting Dow, as Company Sees 'Broadening Momentum'
Caterpillar's earnings beat and raised outlook boosted industrial and broad-market sentiment, supporting S&P 500 and ES futures.
Yahoo Finance
- Stock market today: Dow and S&P 500 soar to record highs, Nasdaq rallies on hopes for a Hormuz deal
Easing Middle East tensions and falling oil prices eased inflation worries, encouraging broad buying across ES and NQ futures.
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 → 13:00 · Time exit
+$3,675
+184.25 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
long NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$5,515
+276.25 pts
- Day & Night Relay
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$6,450
+323.00 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:01 · Target
+$7,140
+357.50 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$6,830
+342.00 pts
- Global Confluence
long NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$6,830
+342.00 pts
- Late-Morning Momentum
long NQ · 11:00 → 13:26 · Target
+$5,160
+258.50 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).