The strategies
7 strategies, in plain English.
Every one is intraday: it decides at the close of a 30-minute bar from 10:30 ET, sets a stop and a target from that day’s volatility, and is flat by its time exit at the latest. Each one came out of our own screening research. Here is what each reads; the exact rules stay private.
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ)7
- Global Confluence2026 net +$89,845 · Max drawdown −$16,725171 trades · 49% won
- Flow Against Breadth2026 net +$85,065 · Max drawdown −$20,365149 trades · 46% won
- Day & Night Relay2026 net +$115,670 · Max drawdown −$29,370242 trades · 48% won
- Breadth Rotation2026 net +$56,550 · Max drawdown −$20,170298 trades · 47% won
- Crude Crosscurrent2026 net +$121,870 · Max drawdown −$31,035278 trades · 51% won
- Late-Morning Momentum2026 net +$34,245 · Max drawdown −$13,14558 trades · 53% won
- Triple Relative Strength2026 net +$107,655 · Max drawdown −$36,145260 trades · 55% won
Five markets read together at 10:30: NYSE breadth (faded), the British pound's order flow, NQ's move since the open, S&P 500 futures order flow and the euro's move. It trades NQ when they line up.
Can enter at 10:30 ET · flat by 15:30 ET
S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures order flow, set against NYSE breadth (faded), read at 10:30. It trades NQ with the futures flow when breadth disagrees.
Can enter at 10:30 ET · flat by 15:30 ET
Two halves. By day, the euro's morning move and S&P 500 futures order flow at 10:30. Into the night, crude oil's move and Treasury-note order flow at 15:00.
Can enter at 10:30 or 15:00 ET · flat by 15:00 ET
The 15:00 entry is held overnight and exits at the next session's 09:30 open.
The trend of NQ's strength against the S&P 500, the NYSE tick and Nasdaq-against-NYSE breadth, confirmed by mid-size order flow.
Can enter at 10:30, 11:30 or 12:30 ET · flat by 13:00 ET
NQ's strength against the S&P 500, unchanged Nasdaq issues and crude oil's momentum, confirmed by order flow.
Can enter at 10:30, 12:30 or 14:30 ET · flat by the 16:00 ET close
NQ's own order flow and the S&P 500 futures' move since the open, read at 11:00. It trades NQ only when both lean hard the same way.
Can enter at 11:00 ET · flat by 15:45 ET
The trend of NQ's strength against the S&P 500, small-cap up/down volume and Nasdaq-against-NYSE breadth, confirmed by NQ's order-flow delta.
Can enter at 10:30, 12:30 or 13:30 ET · flat by 14:00 ET
The words above
- Breadth
- How many stocks are rising against how many are falling (the advance-decline ratio or line).
- Nasdaq-against-NYSE breadth
- Whether breadth is stronger among Nasdaq stocks or NYSE stocks.
- Order-flow delta
- Contracts bought at the offer minus contracts sold at the bid: who is more eager, buyers or sellers.
- Large, mid-size and small prints
- The same delta counted only on trades of a given size.
- Up/down volume
- Volume in rising stocks against volume in falling ones.
- The tick
- How many stocks last traded on an uptick minus on a downtick (NYSE or Nasdaq).
- Relative strength
- Whether NQ is outrunning or lagging the S&P 500 so far in the session.
- Time exit
- The time a strategy is flat by if neither its stop nor its target was hit.
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