Historical rule simulator

Backtest: After Negative Funding

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy after negative funding, 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

42 historical signal(s) detected for Bitcoin; 26 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (16 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades26
Win rate23.1%
Average return / trade-2.37%
Compounded total return-48.14%
Max drawdown-50.41%
Buy & hold, same period-33.50%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-09-13 2025-09-20 $116091.8070 $115656.9458 -0.37% 99.63
2025-09-25 2025-10-02 $113317.1627 $118930.9551 +4.95% 104.56
2025-10-12 2025-10-19 $110655.2698 $107210.0961 -3.11% 101.31
2025-10-29 2025-11-05 $112893.8520 $101480.7666 -10.11% 91.06
2025-11-09 2025-11-16 $102286.8252 $95380.1332 -6.75% 84.92
2025-11-23 2025-11-30 $84675.5076 $90832.1869 +7.27% 91.09
2025-12-02 2025-12-09 $86303.8977 $90626.0373 +5.01% 95.65
2025-12-11 2025-12-18 $91986.5811 $86196.8214 -6.29% 89.63
2025-12-18 2025-12-25 $86196.8214 $87589.0166 +1.62% 91.08
2025-12-28 2026-01-04 $87852.9866 $90614.4068 +3.14% 93.94
2026-01-06 2026-01-13 $93879.9480 $91200.6276 -2.85% 91.26
2026-01-15 2026-01-22 $96898.7607 $89453.9047 -7.68% 84.25
2026-02-01 2026-02-08 $78647.0274 $69245.7820 -11.95% 74.18
2026-02-18 2026-02-25 $67559.2957 $64073.5489 -5.16% 70.35
2026-03-06 2026-03-13 $70868.2182 $70417.1939 -0.64% 69.90
2026-03-17 2026-03-24 $74679.3709 $70987.2519 -4.94% 66.45
2026-03-26 2026-04-02 $71303.5855 $67959.8752 -4.69% 63.33
2026-04-07 2026-04-14 $68672.2466 $74481.6414 +8.46% 68.69
2026-04-27 2026-05-04 $78637.7436 $78512.0925 -0.16% 68.58
2026-05-12 2026-05-19 $81627.5660 $76959.4057 -5.72% 64.66
2026-05-22 2026-05-29 $77550.3831 $73651.6426 -5.03% 61.41
2026-06-04 2026-06-11 $64046.6106 $61480.1444 -4.01% 58.95
2026-06-14 2026-06-21 $64408.8098 $64253.3987 -0.24% 58.80
2026-06-23 2026-06-30 $63937.2853 $60152.3587 -5.92% 55.32
2026-07-23 2026-07-30 $66077.0565 $63916.5979 -3.27% 53.51
2026-09-05 2026-09-12 $79671.2577 $77203.5344 -3.10% 51.86

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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