Daybreak

NQ ● flat overnight ● live testing 24/7

A reader-submitted spec that survived our full validation battery — unchanged. Daybreak trades the break of the 30-minute opening range high on the Nasdaq-100, long only, one trade per day: stop 2.25× the range, target 0.75×, flat by 17:00 ET (no overnight risk). Seven years of backtest: positive every calendar year including 2022, profit factor 1.32, Sharpe 1.6 — and it beats two placebo controls with identical exits, so it isn't just index drift. The wide stop is hit on only ~7% of trades; the daily cutoff is the risk engine. Live since July 2026 — the backtest runs alongside the growing live forward test.

30-min opening range breakout
Long only · 1 trade/day
SL 2.25×OR / TP 0.75×OR
Flat 17:00 ET

Signals

$100/mo

Daily bias + exact execution plan via API
Live event feed (entries, scale-outs, exits)
Dashboard view + one URL for Claude/LLM use
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Full source code

$9,999 one-time

Complete strategy source (Rust) incl. the model
Backtest harness + parameters
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Paper record. You can lose more than you paid us. These curves are paper-traded on our own data — no customer account has traded them. Part of the record before each sleeve shipped is a backfilled replay, tagged bf. Past results, simulated or live, predict nothing: several strategies on this site were killed by their own out-of-sample data, and we publish those too. Futures are leveraged and nothing here is investment advice.

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These are paper records, not client money — Every live track record on this site is paper-traded on our own market data. No customer account has traded these strategies. Costs are charged on every fill, but a paper fill and a real one are not the same thing.
The record starts 1 June 2026, and part of it is backfilled — Rows dated before a sleeve actually shipped were reconstructed by replaying our archived tick data through the same code. They carry a bf tag wherever they appear. That is a replay, not a forward test — treat it as the weaker evidence it is.
Past results predict nothing — Not the backtest, not the live paper record, not the Sharpe ratio. A strategy that worked for two months can stop working the day you buy it, and several on this site have been killed by their own out-of-sample data. We publish those too.
You can lose everything you put in — Futures are leveraged. A single NQ contract moves $20 per point, and a bad day can exceed your margin. Losses are not capped at what you paid us — they are capped by your account balance, and then by your broker calling you.
This is not advice — We publish signals. We do not know your account, your risk or your circumstances, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. Buying a strategy does not make it suitable for you, and we are not in a position to judge whether it is.
If you switch on auto-execution, orders are placed without you — Renting signals places no orders at all. But if you separately link a broker account and activate a strategy on it, our engine polls that strategy every minute and moves your position to match — no confirmation, no second look, including while you are asleep. That is a standing instruction you give per strategy and per account, and you can withdraw it at any time from the dashboard. Until you do, it keeps trading.

Track record

Backtest

Backtest 20190301 → 20260227 · NaNy — lookahead-free, fills on real trade prints only, 1 contract incl. commission + slippage

Returns

Net P&L+$235,682

Annualized P&L—

Profit factor1.32

Expectancy / trade+$190

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe—

Sortino—

Calmar—

Recovery factor8.64

Drawdown & risk

Max drawdown−$27,273

Worst trade−$9,289

Max consec. losses6

Trade stats

Trades1238

Win rate67.3%

Avg trades / mo—

Payoff ratio0.64

Avg win+$1,168

Avg loss−$1,820

Live paper-trading

Live paper-trading on tickstream data since 2026-06-01

Live · since 2026-06-01

Net P&L+$4,293

Trades28

Win rate60.7%

Profit factor1.10

Expectancy / trade+$153

Max drawdown−$19,857

Date	Side	Entry	Exit	P&L	Reason
2026-08-06	LONG	29551.75	29514.25	−$774	time
2026-08-04	LONG	29504	29725.63	+$4,419	win
2026-08-03	LONG	28628.25	28864.13	+$4,704	win
2026-07-30	LONG	28162.5	28317	+$3,066	time
2026-07-28	LONG	27735.5	27805.44	+$1,385	win
2026-07-22	LONG	29277.75	29100	−$3,579	time
2026-07-21	LONG	29246.5	29361.81	+$2,292	win
2026-07-17	LONG	28686.5	28894.81	+$4,152	win
2026-07-14	LONG	29816	29805	−$244	time
2026-07-13	LONG	29737.5	29465.75	−$5,459	time
2026-07-10	LONG	29968.75	30068.5	+$1,971	time
2026-07-09	LONG	29931.5	29937.75	+$101	time
2026-07-08	LONG	29399.25	29412	+$231	time
2026-07-06	LONG	30009.25	29960	−$1,009	time
2026-07-02bf	LONG	30263.25	29688.75	−$11,514	loss
2026-07-01bf	LONG	30285.25	30089.75	−$3,934	time
2026-06-30bf	LONG	30367	30505.75	+$2,751	time
2026-06-29bf	LONG	29840.5	30052.75	+$4,236	win
2026-06-26bf	LONG	29465.25	29677.5	+$4,236	win
2026-06-24bf	LONG	29842	30051.44	+$4,180	win

Live results are paper-traded on real tickstream market data, one NQ contract, with each sleeve's own commission and slippage charged on every fill — between $9 and $24.50 round turn depending on how it exits. Every record runs from 1 June 2026. Rows dated before the sleeve itself shipped are a backfill and carry a bf tag wherever they surface in the trade table; everything from the launch date on was traded forward.

Rebuilt 31 July 2026. The whole record was re-derived from our own archived tick path: every session the archive covers end to end was replayed through the agent's unmodified production code — the backfilled portion included, so it is no longer backtest output but the same code run over recorded prints. That corrected fills which had been booked at the trigger level instead of at the price that actually printed; on gap opens the difference reached 470 points. Sessions the archive cannot cover end to end keep their rows as recorded, because deleting a real trade over a hole in our recorder would flatter the record. On the sessions used as the control, the replay reproduces the live rows to the cent.

The backtest is lookahead-free: weekly CFTC data is anchored on its actual publication day and fills are simulated on real trade prints only — the live agent runs the identical model. Past performance, simulated or live, does not guarantee future results. Not financial advice.