NQ indicators that hold up on your own trades

• VWAP. The volume-weighted average price since the session open: whether you entered above or below it, and how far.
• Moving averages (EMA, SMA). Trend direction on your timeframe, and whether price was stretched away from the average.
• RSI. How stretched the recent move was, useful mostly to avoid chasing.
• Bollinger Bands. Whether price was inside, at or breaking out of its normal range, and how strongly.
• Gamma levels. Which side of the gamma flip the market was on, and the room to the nearest call or put wall. See gamma exposure explained.
• Time of day. The open, the morning, midday and the close behave differently on NQ; many traders win in one window and give it back in another.
• Economic events. Whether a scheduled high or medium impact release was minutes away or had just come out.
• NQ vs ES. Whether ES confirmed NQ's latest high or low, and which index was stronger since the open.

1. Take at least 100 of your own NQ or MNQ trades, real or from a backtest.
2. For each trade, record the indicator's value at the moment of entry, using only bars that had already closed.
3. Split the trades by that value (above or below VWAP, inside or outside the bands) and compare profit factor and net result on each side.
4. Keep only conditions that make a difference over a good share of your trades, and be wary of combining many: with enough conditions, anything looks good on the past.

Every trade is placed on 1-minute market context with these values as they were at entry. The findings rank which conditions your winners share, with the best combination of up to four and the combination to avoid.

Make an indicator turns a finding into a widget with one green or red light per condition, updated on every closed 1-minute bar during the session: in real time on Analyze Live, 15 minutes behind on Analyze. RSI, moving averages and Bollinger Bands can also be drawn on each trade's chart. QuantLogic is analysis only: it never places orders. Start with a TradingView backtest.