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 Litecoin

4 historical signal(s) detected for Litecoin; 3 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (1 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades3
Win rate66.7%
Average return / trade+3.30%
Compounded total return+10.00%
Max drawdown-1.88%
Buy & hold, same period-52.57%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-12 2025-10-19 $93.4343 $91.6778 -1.88% 98.12
2026-02-06 2026-02-13 $50.8023 $53.1345 +4.59% 102.62
2026-06-07 2026-06-14 $41.3424 $44.3155 +7.19% 110.00

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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