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All-Instrument Stack

Every stack — NQ, ES and GC — in one subscription, plus a mixed one-position-at-a-time set across all three markets. Tested mixed set: ES B12_01 + NQ Supertrend 1h + ES B8_03 + GC Coral + NQ DPO + GC Elder Force — in-sample, and half of its members are Tier B.

Last validated: 2026-10-16 (baseline) · weekly validation · billing not open: join the waitlist.

Read this before the numbers. This is the most optimistic-looking set on the site because it is the most selected: it was picked from 16,455 mixed subsets of 17 strategies, all scored on the same two years, so its net ÷ DD (29.48×) is inflated by selection and by a strong uptrend (NQ ≈ 20,200→31,300, ES ≈ 5,860→7,700). Neighbouring sets are almost as good, so the exact membership is not special. Year 2 made 63% of the profit (year 1 PF 1.80); the weakest full quarter was 2025 Q3 ($3,852, PF 1.16); the five best trades are 45% of net. Three of six members are Tier B: DPO failed long-history validation (2019–2026 PF 1.29, DD $21,275, 2020-crash PF 0.28, walk-forward positive in 48% of folds) and is also the biggest contributor ($56,005) — it adds net but lowers PF; Coral lost $4,710 in its own year 1 (PF 0.73; 107% of its net came in year 2); Elder Force lost $4,145 in the last 3 months and overlaps Coral heavily (73% of Coral's entry days). Supertrend 1h, Coral, Elder, DPO (15m) and B8_03 pass at only one timeframe, and ES B12_01 has just 42 trades. ES B12_01 and B8_03 are one dip-buy engine. No robustness checks have been run on any member. Backtest only; fills at bar close; each full-size NQ, ES and GC contract needs its own margin when held.

$210,412

Net profit (backtest)

-$7,138

Max drawdown (closed-trade)

29.48×

Net ÷ closed-trade max DD

1.94

Profit factor

48.7%

Win rate

433 of 611

Trades taken / entry setups

21%

Avg entry-day overlap

2024-09 → 2026-09

Test window

$78,825 PF 1.80

Year 1 (exits before 2025-09-23)

$131,588 PF 2.05

Year 2 (exits from 2025-09-23) — 62.5% of the profit

53 trades, $13,672, PF 1.43

Last 3 months (exits 2026-06-24 → 09-23)

Set: All-Instrument set: ES B12_01 > NQ Supertrend 1h > ES B8_03 > GC Coral > NQ DPO > GC Elder. One position at a time, earliest entry wins; closed-trade basis; backtest, hypothetical, in-sample. In-sample, one window: selected from 16,455 mixed subsets scored on the same two years. Three of the six members are Tier B (Coral, DPO, Elder); DPO is the single biggest contributor and failed long-history validation. 63% of the profit came in year 2. Backtest only. Taken trades (the split between strategies depends on priority order; GC totals do not): ES B12_01 36 ($46,645); NQ Supertrend Flip 31 ($26,740); ES B8_03 Two-Day Slide 34 ($4,668); GC Coral MA Cross 79 ($51,945); NQ DPO 119 ($56,005); GC Elder Force 134 ($24,410).

Stack members

Strategy	Mkt / TF	Net	PF	Trades	Max DD (TV)	Net ÷ DD	Year 1 net / PF	Year 2 net / PF
ES Weak Close Dip Buy (B12_01) Tier A Pass	ES 1h	$45,952.50	3.162	42	-$6,505	7.06×	$28,080 / 2.48	$17,872.50 / 8.75
NQ Supertrend Flip Tier A Pass	NQ 1h	$35,400	2.385	45	-$8,237.50	4.3×	$22,905 / 2.53	$12,495 / 2.18
ES Two-Day Slide Dip Buy (B8_03) Tier A Watch	ES 30m	≈$40,100	2.14	55	≈-$9,100	4.4×	$32,095 / 2.95	$7,992 / 1.43
GC Coral MA Cross (B12_01) Tier B · fragile Flagged	GC 30m	$67,685	2.687	93	-$8,362.50	8.09×	-$4,710 / 0.73	$72,395 / 4.17
NQ DPO Zero Cross Tier B · fragile Flagged	NQ 15m	$68,300	1.568	174	-$13,248	5.16×	$6,640 / 1.12	$61,660 / 1.96
GC Elder Force Index Zero Cross (B10_03) Tier B · fragile Flagged	GC 30m	$46,310	1.49	202	-$9,722.50	4.76×	$2,390 / 1.06	$43,920 / 1.79

Includes Tier B (fragile) strategies — flagged on their pages and in the table.

Max DD is TradingView's headline figure per 1 full-size contract (≈ = rounded 'about' value); year splits are from the saved trade lists (net / PF). Mechanics: one position at a time, first come first served; priority only breaks ties.

Where the profit comes from

NQ 150 trades · $82,745 · PF 1.92

By instrument (taken trades)

ES 70 · $51,312 · PF 2.33

ES — all from one dip-buy engine

GC 213 · $76,355 · PF 1.81

GC — year-1 weak, year-2 strong

Year 1: 211 trades, closed DD -$7,138. Year 2: 222 trades, closed DD -$6,585. Longest gap between entries: 11 days. Top 5 trades = 45% of net.

Member (priority order)	Mkt / TF	Solo trades	Solo net / PF	Taken in stack (trades / net)
ES B12_01 Tier A	ES 1h	42	$45,952 / 3.16	36 / $46,645
NQ Supertrend Flip Tier A	NQ 1h	45	$35,400 / 2.39	31 / $26,740
ES B8_03 Two-Day Slide Tier A	ES 30m	55	$40,088 / 2.14	34 / $4,668
GC Coral MA Cross Tier B · fragile	GC 30m	93	$67,685 / 2.69	79 / $51,945
NQ DPO Tier B · fragile	NQ 15m	174	$68,300 / 1.57	119 / $56,005
GC Elder Force Tier B · fragile	GC 30m	202	$46,310 / 1.49	134 / $24,410

DPO takes 119 trades and $56,005 here — the largest share of any member — while ES B8_03 nets only $4,668 over 34 taken trades. Coral and Elder are the one heavily overlapping pair; DPO is the most overlapped member.

How it compares with the single-instrument stacks

Set (same engine, window and costs)	Net	PF	Trades	Closed DD	Net ÷ DD	Year 1 net / PF	Year 2 net / PF
All-Instrument tested set	$210,412	1.94	433	-$7,138	29.48×	$78,825 / 1.80	$131,588 / 2.05
NQ best set: Connors>Supertrend>VZO>RMI	$133,730	2.02	271	-$10,822	12.4×	$48,360 / 1.62	$85,370 / 2.62
ES best pair (lowest overlap): B12_01>B8_03	$52,740	2.06	82	-$10,378	5.1×	$30,725 / 2.05	$22,015 / 2.06
ES best by PF: B12_01>B12_03	$51,850	2.56	55	-$7,872	6.6×	$31,712 / 2.67	$20,138 / 2.42
ES best by net: B8_02>B12_03	$54,492	2.11	89	-$8,600	6.3×	$44,718 / 3.56	$9,775 / 1.31
GC best set: Coral>Elder>G4	$95,760	1.82	260	-$10,120	9.5×	$460 / 1.01	$95,300 / 2.40
GC best pair: Coral>G4	$81,360	2.59	126	-$6,450	12.6×	-$3,730 / 0.84	$85,090 / 4.13

Its profit factor is not the highest: 1.94 is below the in-sample best NQ set (2.02), the ES pair (2.06), ES B12_01 + B12_03 (2.56) and the GC Coral + G4 pair (2.59); it is above the best GC set (1.82). What it has is more net and a lower drawdown, because three markets trade mostly on different days, so a single slot is free more often. That is a property of this window, not a promise.

Leave one out

Dropping each member in turn (same rule, same window). Removing DPO costs the most net (and nearly all of its drawdown benefit is visible too); removing ES B8_03 slightly raises net, and removing Elder Force raises PF but lifts drawdown.

Without	Net	PF	Closed DD	Net ÷ DD	Trades	Year 1 net / PF	Year 2 net / PF
ES B12_01	$181,888	1.80	-$14,018	13.0×	418	$69,072 / 1.69	$112,815 / 1.89
NQ Supertrend Flip	$191,580	1.89	-$13,075	14.7×	414	$53,338 / 1.57	$138,242 / 2.14
ES B8_03 Two-Day Slide	$211,512	1.97	-$9,740	21.7×	423	$69,888 / 1.72	$141,625 / 2.18
GC Coral MA Cross	$170,528	1.81	-$8,758	19.5×	401	$81,760 / 1.88	$88,768 / 1.75
NQ DPO	$145,955	1.86	-$9,562	15.3×	334	$56,400 / 1.71	$89,555 / 2.00
GC Elder Force	$203,625	2.18	-$9,260	22.0×	320	$70,415 / 1.88	$133,210 / 2.43

Overlap and priority

Entry-day overlap (% of the row strategy's entry days that are also the column strategy's):

	ES B12_01	NQ Supertrend Flip	ES B8_03 Two-Day Slide	GC Coral MA Cross	NQ DPO	GC Elder Force
ES B12_01	100	2	36	12	31	26
NQ Supertrend Flip	2	100	20	11	43	27
ES B8_03 Two-Day Slide	27	16	100	11	42	31
GC Coral MA Cross	6	6	7	100	23	73
NQ DPO	9	14	17	14	100	38
GC Elder Force	7	7	10	36	31	100

Priority matters for net: all 720 orders of these six keep closed DD under $15k (DD -$7,138 to -$10,328), but net ranges from $195,535 to $247,328. We kept the stated order rather than the best-net order (net $247,328, PF 2.14) because choosing the best-scoring order would add another layer of in-sample selection. Quarter by exit date (first and last quarters are partial):

Quarter	Trades	Net	PF
2024 Q3	5	$1,275	1.97
2024 Q4	52	$10,078	1.50
2025 Q1	58	$24,605	1.97
2025 Q2	51	$35,198	2.07
2025 Q3	54	$3,852	1.16
2025 Q4	51	$38,698	2.50
2026 Q1	55	$47,535	2.33
2026 Q2	57	$41,135	2.52
2026 Q3	50	$8,038	1.26

DPO — what we say elsewhere, and why it is here

The NQ Stack leaves DPO out: adding DPO and Kalman to the NQ core lifts drawdown to $14,655 and DPO's taken trades net −$785 there. In this mixed set DPO takes 119 trades worth $56,005, because the other markets leave slots open that DPO fills. Both are true in-sample results on one window. DPO is flagged Tier B (it failed 2019–2026 validation), so treat its contribution here with the most suspicion; the leave-one-out table shows how much of the result rests on it.

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What the Instrument Stack includes

Written rules for every member strategy; follow-along posts with a skipped-setup log
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Read this first. Backtest only — no live or forward results. One 2-year window (2024-09-23 to 2026-09-23), a strongly rising market, and the strategies were selected on the same data (selection bias). Profit skews to year 2. Fills assume entry at bar close. No robustness checks (neighbor timeframes, parameter nudges) have been completed yet. Tier B strategies are flagged fragile. Expect live results to be worse.

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