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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
  • Cancel anytime

Full source code

$9,999 one-time

  • Complete strategy source (Rust) incl. the model
  • Backtest harness + parameters
  • Own it, run it, modify it — no lock-in
  • Delivered within 24h to your account email

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 Jun 2026
Net P&L+$12,717
Trades18
Win rate66.7%
Profit factor1.89
Expectancy / trade+$706
Max drawdown−$6,990
DateSideEntryExitP&LReason
2026-07-28 LONG 27735.527805.44 +$1,385 win
2026-07-22 LONG 29277.7529100 −$3,579 time
2026-07-21 LONG 29246.529361.81 +$2,292 win
2026-07-14 LONG 2981629805 −$244 time
2026-07-13 LONG 29737.529465.75 −$5,459 time
2026-07-10 LONG 29968.7530068.5 +$1,971 time
2026-07-09 LONG 29931.529937.75 +$101 time
2026-07-08 LONG 29399.2529412 +$231 time
2026-07-06 LONG 30009.2529960 −$1,009 time
2026-06-29 LONG 29840.530052.75 +$4,236 win
2026-06-26 LONG 29465.2529677.5 +$4,236 win
2026-06-24 LONG 2984230051.44 +$4,180 win
2026-06-19 LONG 30696.2530647 −$1,004 time
2026-06-15 LONG 30497.7530530 +$626 time
2026-06-08 LONG 29584.529435.25 −$3,004 time
2026-06-04 LONG 3036530497.56 +$2,642 win
2026-06-02 LONG 30605.2530741 +$2,706 win
2026-06-01 LONG 30468.2530589.19 +$2,410 win

Live results are paper-traded on real tickstream market data (1 NQ contract, $4.50 commission, 1-tick slippage). 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.