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Trading System Signals on 02-18-2026

Stock Indexes "rallied out of the blue" on Wednesday taking the Nasdaq 100 futures above 25,000 before rolling over into the close. The rally seemed "unnatural" and "fabricated" from a longer-term perspective. We see many unnatural rallies the last few years and incomplete pullback cycles in the indexes.


The overnight price action in the Nasdaq 100 traded back to its opening range from Wednesday's trade and the open on Thursday's trade is back to where we started on Wednesday.


Bitcoin is trading as if it wants to re-tests the February 6 low's and Bitcoin is below the April 2025 lows where it had rallied along with stock indexes. Bitcoin and Nasdaq have seen some strong periods of correlation. Will Bitcoin rally back or will Nasdaq sell off to those April 2025 lows or is the correlation now broken?


Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 02-18-2026

Diversified Portfolio 57 (NQ Only) = +$200

Stock Index Portfolio 37 = -$525

Stock Index Portfolio 18 = +$715

Two System Portfolio NQ = -$665

Silver Portfolio = -$3,300

50K Portfolio = +$450 (without Gold and Silver)

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