ELITE Tape | NQ Futures Prop Firm: Sixteen Weeks in the Loss Column

If you are trading NQ futures at a prop firm, this week looked familiar. Five sessions. One green close. A week that opened with the heaviest volume and the deepest single-day loss, then ground through the middle before barely turning positive on Friday. The total was deep in the red.

ETF is a futures prop firm for traders who want uncapped Live Elite payouts. The data below is pulled from ELITE account activity for the week of June 8 through June 12, 2026. Everything here reflects position-level P/L from real sim-funded ELITE accounts, not demo or evaluation accounts.

Monday set the tone. It was the highest-volume day of the week and also the worst loss day by a significant margin. The rest of the week saw volume taper off, with losses following a similar pattern. Thursday was the quietest session. Friday finished with a marginal gain, the only positive close of the five days.

Same instruments at the top. Same column for NQ. Sixteen weeks running.

MNQ held the top position for the sixteenth consecutive week. The gap between MNQ and everything else is not close. Micro E-mini NASDAQ-100 is the dominant choice by a wide margin, and that has been consistent.

NQ holds the second spot. Below those two, the volume picture spreads across MES and ES, Micro Gold, and a smaller tail of commodity and currency instruments. The core of ELITE account activity runs through the NASDAQ-100 complex: MNQ first, NQ second, everything else well behind.

Micro Gold maintains a consistent presence in the top tier. It has been in the top ten by volume for sixteen straight weeks. That consistency, combined with its ongoing appearance on the loss side, makes it one of the more notable instruments in this dataset over the last four months.

NQ was the biggest loser. Again. Sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of this chart. That is four months without a break. The magnitude this week was substantial, contributing nearly half of the total weekly loss across all ELITE accounts. It was not close at the top of the loss chart.

MNQ extended its own streak on the loss side to four consecutive weeks. The same contract drawing the most volume from ELITE traders has now been a top loser in four of the last four weeks. MNQ and NQ together accounted for nearly three-quarters of the total weekly loss. Same index, different contract sizes, same result.

ES finished as the third-largest loser, also for the fourth consecutive week. MES appeared on the loss side for the second consecutive week. The equity index complex is generating the bulk of the damage: NQ leads, ES adds a significant secondary position, and their respective micros track alongside them.

Gold made the loss column for the third consecutive week. This is a developing streak. Gold had been profitable in prior weeks before reversing course. Three consecutive weeks in the red makes it a pattern worth calling out. Micro Gold has been in the loss column for fifteen straight weeks, running quietly in the background behind the larger NQ numbers.

Silver was in the red for the second consecutive week. Micro Crude Oil and Swiss Franc rounded out the lower end of the loss chart.

Micro Russell 2000 finished as the top profit instrument for the fourth consecutive week. The Russell-family micros have been the most consistent bright spot across this stretch. Four weeks in a row as a top profit instrument is a clear trend. If you are looking for the instruments that held up, the Russell side of the ledger has the clearest track record over the last month.

Micro Silver was the second-most profitable instrument this week. E-Mini Dow and E-Mini Russell 2000 both made the profit chart. Micro E-mini Dow rounded out the top five, continuing its own three-consecutive-week run on the profitable side.

The contrast is stark. The profit side is spread across multiple instruments at modest levels. The loss side is concentrated at the top, with NQ and MNQ generating most of the damage. Profitable instruments won smaller this week. The losing instruments lost much bigger.

Micro Bitcoin made the profit chart for the second consecutive week. Natural Gas has been profitable in five of the last six weeks, a quiet positive streak running alongside the Russell story.

Monday opened the week with the highest volume and the largest single-day loss. That combination set the tone immediately. Monday alone accounted for the majority of the total weekly loss. It was the defining session, and the damage from that one day shaped the entire week's outcome.

Tuesday kept volume elevated but the loss was smaller than Monday. Wednesday saw volume continue to ease, but the net loss on Wednesday exceeded Tuesday. Mid-week losses were not following volume down in a straight line.

Thursday was the quietest session of the week on both volume and losses. The week had been bleeding; Thursday slowed the pace. Volume compression and loss compression moved together for that one day.

Friday was the only session with a green close. The margin was razor thin, effectively a push, but technically the single day where ELITE accounts finished on the right side of the ledger. Volume on Friday recovered above Thursday's level but stayed well below the Monday peak.

Four red days. One barely green. Monday was the story.

A note on the streak numbers in this week's report. Previous posts showed NQ as a top loser for six or seven consecutive weeks. That number is higher. The streaks run longer than what was published before.

We went back and looked. NQ has been a top loser for sixteen consecutive weeks. Not six. Not seven. Sixteen.

Micro Gold: fifteen consecutive weeks as a top loser. That streak has been running the entire time, quietly accumulating behind the larger NQ numbers.

MNQ has been a top loser for four consecutive weeks. It has also been the number-one most-traded instrument by volume for sixteen consecutive weeks. The same contract that draws the most activity from ELITE traders is also spending more and more time on the wrong side of the ledger.

ES: four consecutive weeks as a top loser. Gold: three. The equity index complex and select commodities have formed a consistent loss cluster over the last month.

The other side: Micro Russell 2000 has been a top profit instrument for four consecutive weeks. Natural Gas has been profitable in five of the last six. Micro E-mini Dow for three consecutive. Smaller in magnitude. More consistent in direction.

Sixteen weeks. The number changed. The column did not.

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