Historical rule simulator

Backtest: After a 2x Volume Spike

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy after a 2x 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 XRP

14 historical signal(s) detected for XRP; 11 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (3 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades10
Win rate10.0%
Average return / trade-2.24%
Compounded total return-24.82%
Max drawdown-36.45%
Buy & hold, same period-43.71%

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 $2.3701 $2.2959 -3.13% 96.87
2026-01-06 2026-01-13 $2.3538 $2.0605 -12.46% 84.80
2026-01-22 2026-01-29 $1.9553 $1.9246 -1.57% 83.47
2026-02-01 2026-02-08 $1.6552 $1.4284 -13.70% 72.03
2026-04-17 2026-04-24 $1.4536 $1.4395 -0.97% 71.33
2026-05-11 2026-05-18 $1.4733 $1.4008 -4.92% 67.82
2026-05-23 2026-05-30 $1.3324 $1.3289 -0.26% 67.65
2026-06-03 2026-06-10 $1.2102 $1.1369 -6.06% 63.55
2026-08-20 2026-08-27 $1.1051 $1.4225 +28.71% 81.79
2026-09-04 2026-09-11 $1.4513 $1.3340 -8.08% 75.18

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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