Historical rule simulator

Backtest: After Funding Enters Its Bottom 5th Percentile

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy after funding enters its bottom 5th percentile, 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 Bitcoin

19 historical signal(s) detected for Bitcoin; 12 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (7 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades12
Win rate50.0%
Average return / trade-0.46%
Compounded total return-6.31%
Max drawdown-13.43%
Buy & hold, same period-42.84%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-12 2025-10-19 $110655.2698 $107210.0961 -3.11% 96.89
2025-10-21 2025-10-28 $110535.8630 $114085.3312 +3.21% 100.00
2026-02-02 2026-02-09 $76895.5867 $70398.0850 -8.45% 91.55
2026-02-10 2026-02-17 $70175.1475 $68859.7762 -1.87% 89.83
2026-02-23 2026-03-02 $65192.1887 $65824.4217 +0.97% 90.70
2026-03-04 2026-03-11 $68287.4630 $69849.2035 +2.29% 92.78
2026-03-15 2026-03-22 $71149.2824 $68424.0769 -3.83% 89.22
2026-03-22 2026-03-29 $68424.0769 $66388.8445 -2.97% 86.57
2026-04-02 2026-04-09 $67959.8752 $70644.7942 +3.95% 89.99
2026-04-11 2026-04-18 $72920.2549 $77125.7336 +5.77% 95.18
2026-05-05 2026-05-12 $79825.8751 $81627.5660 +2.26% 97.33
2026-06-15 2026-06-22 $65709.3109 $63255.4853 -3.73% 93.69

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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