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 Zcash

21 historical signal(s) detected for Zcash; 18 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (3 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades18
Win rate38.9%
Average return / trade+10.44%
Compounded total return+146.76%
Max drawdown-39.02%
Buy & hold, same period+720.75%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-09-21 2025-09-28 $50.6487 $55.1005 +8.79% 108.79
2025-09-29 2025-10-06 $61.3850 $165.7141 +169.96% 293.69
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $229.2593 $217.4053 -5.17% 278.50
2025-10-19 2025-10-26 $220.9870 $275.3177 +24.59% 346.97
2025-11-15 2025-11-22 $608.1992 $547.7121 -9.95% 312.47
2025-11-23 2025-11-30 $519.0073 $460.0247 -11.36% 276.95
2025-12-04 2025-12-11 $339.0926 $404.0058 +19.14% 329.97
2025-12-11 2025-12-18 $404.0058 $376.6127 -6.78% 307.60
2025-12-27 2026-01-03 $447.7749 $488.5545 +9.11% 335.61
2026-01-15 2026-01-22 $446.6909 $355.0290 -20.52% 266.74
2026-02-15 2026-02-22 $322.9946 $258.7156 -19.90% 213.66
2026-02-26 2026-03-05 $243.5030 $243.2615 -0.10% 213.45
2026-03-07 2026-03-14 $209.5641 $207.7245 -0.88% 211.57
2026-04-02 2026-04-09 $251.9365 $323.7983 +28.52% 271.92
2026-05-04 2026-05-11 $412.9274 $592.8096 +43.56% 390.38
2026-05-20 2026-05-27 $573.6006 $569.7732 -0.67% 387.78
2026-06-01 2026-06-08 $569.4121 $439.9814 -22.73% 299.63
2026-06-17 2026-06-24 $504.7611 $415.6996 -17.64% 246.76

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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