The market ended the week with some sloppy trading with noise patterns throughout the day.
Its the type of market where you may anticipate higher prices but the day session works to avoid strong accumulation trends.
Liberation NQ was sloppy before its 12 month anniversary of Liberation Day and took a big drawdown March 26 - March 31. The worst case drawdown going back to April 10, 2025 went from almost 10k to nearly 23k. The last 6 days it has been on a roll though, going 13 of 14 trades with only one loser.
If you have followed my strategies, you know most of our strategies are in the 30-55% accuracy range, seeking larger winners. Liberation NQ is a strategy with 92.8% accuracy the last 6 days and 76.8% accuracy the last 12 months.
Liberation NQ is a strategy that was developed to take advantage of option selling programs that strangle the volatility out of the market, especially in the afternoon. We have seen a long cycle of this afternoon noise and we anticipated the cycle would end at some point. The end of Q1 generated more trendy price action but over the last 6 trading days, we are back to intra-day volatility strangles.
Shorting options is capital intensive and requires advanced options strategies and hedging. A strategy such as Liberation NQ is a synthetic option selling strategy that trades futures and is much different than most of our other trading systems and does offer diversity and creates opportunity in a noisy market.
Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 04-10-2026
25 System Portfolio NQ = -$12,755
7 System Portfolio NQ = -$3,610
3 System Portfolio NQ = -$3,645
2 System Portfolio NQ = -$2,620
Stock Index Portfolio 18 = -$8,415
Diversified Portfolio 57 (NQ Only) = -$8,605
Silver Portfolio = +$1,075
50K Portfolio (Micros) = -$402 (without Gold and Silver)