The stock indexes closed up slightly in Thursday's trade after being down more than 1% in the overnight sessions as Crude Oil surged over 12% on the day.
WTI Crude was $67.02 on February 27. Today it is at $111, a 65% increase in about one month.
One of the top performing strategies since the beginning of February is NQ Open Range with most of its gains on the short side. It has only been accurate 3 out of every 10 trades going 13 of 43 for $37,100 in profit with $7,175 closed trade drawdown. It only takes one trade per day with a 50 point stop loss. A strategy with a tight stop loss can typically have a low winning percentage but gives us the opportunity to cut losses and ride winners into the close since it has no profit target and exits at the end of the day.
NQ Open Range
Hypothetical Performance Summary
$25 Round Turn Slippage and Commission
2/1/2026 - 4/2/2026
NQ Open Range is in the Diversified Portfolio 57 as well as Stock Index Portfolio 18 and Stock Index Portfolio 37.
The 27 System Portfolio does not include the NQ Open Range strategy. Research shows us that adding NQ Open Range and removing TICK Wave, the Long Only version of V-Reversal II and V-Reversal IV (since the Long-Short version are included), introduces the 25 System Portfolio NQ.
The 27 System Portfolio NQ had its best day since March 9, 2026.
Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 04-02-2026
27 System Portfolio NQ = +$17,610
Diversified Portfolio 57 (NQ Only) = +$5,780
Seven System Portfolio NQ = +$3,950
Stock Index Portfolio 37 = +$6,592.50
Stock Index Portfolio 18 = +$3,385
Two System Portfolio NQ = +$1,975
Silver Portfolio = -$6,275
50K Portfolio (Micros) = +$310.50 (without Gold and Silver)