Event-by-event fluctuations of electric charge and strangeness-baryon correlations have been proposed as probes of strongly interacting matter, allowing the distinction between a deconfined partonic system and a dense hadron gas. We study both signals in the quark molecular dynamics model qMD. This model allows a fully dynamical description of hadronization via the recombination of quarks to colour-neutral states under the influence of a colour-electric, confining interaction. We see how the charge fluctuation signal is lost during recombination and hadronization, and how quark diffusion, and the formation of colour-neutral clusters, contribute to this loss.