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 Cardano

22 historical signal(s) detected for Cardano; 18 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (4 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades18
Win rate33.3%
Average return / trade-0.62%
Compounded total return-19.48%
Max drawdown-44.57%
Buy & hold, same period-73.57%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $0.6359 $0.6247 -1.76% 98.24
2025-12-25 2026-01-01 $0.3564 $0.3333 -6.48% 91.87
2026-01-01 2026-01-08 $0.3333 $0.4021 +20.64% 110.84
2026-02-01 2026-02-08 $0.3022 $0.2797 -7.45% 102.57
2026-02-09 2026-02-16 $0.2969 $0.2922 -1.57% 100.97
2026-02-21 2026-02-28 $0.3021 $0.2935 -2.86% 98.08
2026-03-04 2026-03-11 $0.2822 $0.2763 -2.10% 96.02
2026-03-14 2026-03-21 $0.2788 $0.2662 -4.52% 91.68
2026-03-22 2026-03-29 $0.2882 $0.2459 -14.68% 78.22
2026-03-29 2026-04-05 $0.2459 $0.2480 +0.84% 78.88
2026-04-07 2026-04-14 $0.2457 $0.2488 +1.27% 79.88
2026-04-27 2026-05-04 $0.2523 $0.2495 -1.11% 78.99
2026-05-28 2026-06-04 $0.2369 $0.2002 -15.49% 66.76
2026-06-09 2026-06-16 $0.1703 $0.1785 +4.79% 69.96
2026-06-17 2026-06-24 $0.1723 $0.1513 -12.17% 61.44
2026-06-28 2026-07-05 $0.1451 $0.1920 +32.34% 81.31
2026-07-10 2026-07-17 $0.1665 $0.1607 -3.46% 78.50
2026-07-25 2026-08-01 $0.1638 $0.1680 +2.58% 80.52

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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