Historical rule simulator

Backtest: After a 20% Seven-Day Drop

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy after a 20% seven-day drop, 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 Chainlink

4 historical signal(s) detected for Chainlink; 2 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (2 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades2
Win rate0.0%
Average return / trade-6.52%
Compounded total return-12.68%
Max drawdown-12.68%
Buy & hold, same period-45.87%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $17.3508 $16.6196 -4.21% 95.79
2026-02-01 2026-02-08 $10.3016 $9.3915 -8.83% 87.32

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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