Thursday, October 22, 2026 Recorded live
Recorded live: each trade as our engine generated it during this session. Still hypothetical: no order was filled.
Nasdaq slides on AI-spending jitters and oil spike; all our strategies' nq short trades won
Stocks fell after big tech earnings renewed worries about heavy AI spending, while a surge in oil prices on Middle East tensions added pressure. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 both closed lower, with tech-heavy Nasdaq hit hardest. Our strategies, trading only Nasdaq-100 futures that day, took seven short trades, all winners, with most closing on a planned time exit and one hitting its profit target.
Day's net
+$35,430
All strategies, after costs
Trades
7
7 won, 0 lost
The market that day
- Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq tanks as tech stocks sink amid AI trade worries, Meta shares plummet
Megacap tech earnings, including Meta's results, stoked fears that heavy AI spending won't pay off, dragging Nasdaq-100 futures lower.
Yahoo Finance
- Nasdaq 100 Drops 3% as Risk-Off Dominates With Oil Prices Rising
Oil prices jumped on escalating Middle East tensions, fueling a broad risk-off move that hit S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures.
Bloomberg
- Stock Market Midday, Oct. 22: Tech Weakness Drags Nasdaq Lower as AI Spending Concerns Mount
Fresh doubts about AI infrastructure spending hit semiconductor and chip-related stocks, adding pressure on Nasdaq-100 futures through the session.
The Motley Fool
Headline, summary and 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 → 12:50 · Target
+$4,360
+218.50 pts
- Triple Relative Strength
short NQ · 10:30 → 14:00 · Time exit
+$4,015
+201.25 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:00 · Time exit
+$5,560
+278.50 pts
- Flow Against Breadth
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$4,120
+206.50 pts
- Global Confluence
short NQ · 10:30 → 15:30 · Time exit
+$4,120
+206.50 pts
- Crude Crosscurrent
short NQ · 10:30 → 16:00 · Time exit
+$4,270
+214.00 pts
- Day & Night Relay
short NQ · 15:00 → 09:30 · Time exit
+$8,985
+449.75 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).
No exit recorded
Left out of the totals.
- Day & Night Relay · long NQ at 15:00 ET
Data was missing for up to 1 of 7 strategies during part of the session; those could not trade while it was out.
1 entry never recorded an exit (the engine stopped before the trade closed); left out of the totals.