E-mini Nasdaq-100 traders
NQ Trading Journal
Full-size NQ moves $5 a tick and $20 a point — ten times MNQ's dollar value on the exact same price move. That means position sizing, stop placement, and daily-loss awareness carry real account-ending consequences per trade in a way a micro contract doesn't, which is what this page focuses on.
The contract math at full size
A 20-point NQ stop is $400 at one contract — before any consideration of how many contracts are on. Fillbook logs every NQ fill against its real $20 point value and $5 tick value, so R-multiple and position sizing reflect the actual dollar risk on the trade, not a rounded estimate.
Sizing decisions matter more at full size
The gap between a well-sized NQ trade and an oversized one is a lot more expensive than the same gap on MNQ. Tracking planned risk against actual R-multiple outcome, trade by trade, is how that gap gets caught before it compounds.
Daily-loss and drawdown limits get tested faster
NQ's own volatility means 100-, 200-, even 400-point sessions aren't rare — at full size, that's real progress toward a daily-loss limit or trailing drawdown floor inside a single move. Fillbook tracks both live against your account rules, with breach alerts before a trade puts you over.
A bad trade compounds faster at full size
Revenge-trading the next setup after a full-size NQ loss risks compounding the damage in a way a micro-sized re-entry doesn't. Fillbook's rule-based revenge-trading and overtrading detection runs on your logged NQ history to flag exactly that pattern.
Frequently asked questions
$20 per point, $5 per tick (0.25 index points) — ten times MNQ's $2 point value and $0.50 tick value, since NQ is the full-size E-mini Nasdaq-100 contract.
That's a sizing and account-size decision specific to your own risk tolerance and account rules, not something this page can answer generically — Fillbook logs either (or both) correctly, using each contract's real tick value.
Yes — P&L, R-multiple, and position sizing are all calculated per contract using NQ's real point and tick value, whether trades are imported via CSV or synced automatically from a supported platform.