Historical rule simulator

Backtest: After a 1.5x Volume Spike

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy after a 1.5x volume spike, hold a fixed number of days, then exit โ€” using only this site's own historical occurrence data. Only one position is held at a time; signals that fire while already in a trade are skipped and shown below.

Rule results for Stellar

26 historical signal(s) detected for Stellar; 19 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (7 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades18
Win rate22.2%
Average return / trade-3.52%
Compounded total return-52.70%
Max drawdown-58.55%
Buy & hold, same period-45.40%

Hypothetical growth of $100

1 accepted trade(s) are still within their 7-day hold and are excluded from the stats and chart above.

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $0.3199 $0.3087 -3.52% 96.48
2025-10-29 2025-11-05 $0.3181 $0.2699 -15.15% 81.86
2025-11-14 2025-11-21 $0.2681 $0.2368 -11.69% 72.29
2025-11-22 2025-11-29 $0.2316 $0.2535 +9.44% 79.12
2026-01-03 2026-01-10 $0.2201 $0.2280 +3.62% 81.99
2026-01-14 2026-01-21 $0.2527 $0.2077 -17.81% 67.38
2026-01-22 2026-01-29 $0.2131 $0.2103 -1.34% 66.48
2026-01-31 2026-02-07 $0.2108 $0.1784 -15.34% 56.28
2026-02-16 2026-02-23 $0.1709 $0.1508 -11.77% 49.66
2026-03-26 2026-04-02 $0.1773 $0.1693 -4.55% 47.40
2026-04-18 2026-04-25 $0.1743 $0.1731 -0.67% 47.08
2026-05-11 2026-05-18 $0.1695 $0.1492 -11.96% 41.45
2026-05-28 2026-06-04 $0.1636 $0.2089 +27.63% 52.90
2026-06-16 2026-06-23 $0.2134 $0.2025 -5.12% 50.19
2026-07-02 2026-07-09 $0.1969 $0.1811 -8.02% 46.17
2026-07-10 2026-07-17 $0.1862 $0.1850 -0.68% 45.85
2026-08-20 2026-08-27 $0.1701 $0.1854 +8.99% 49.97
2026-09-04 2026-09-11 $0.1845 $0.1747 -5.34% 47.30

How this backtest works

Every trade uses the same independent-episode detection and forward-return data as the full study page. A trade is entered on the day a signal triggers and exited exactly 7 days later at the historical close; a new signal is ignored while a trade is still open, so the trade count below is always less than or equal to the number of raw signals. Returns compound sequentially starting from a hypothetical $100.

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