Historical rule simulator

Backtest: When Bitcoin Drops 3% in a Day

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy when bitcoin drops 3% in a day, 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 Sui

20 historical signal(s) detected for Sui; 15 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (5 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades14
Win rate50.0%
Average return / trade-2.38%
Compounded total return-37.93%
Max drawdown-46.62%
Buy & hold, same period-75.89%

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
2025-09-26 2025-10-03 $3.1331 $3.5866 +14.47% 114.47
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $2.6108 $2.4397 -6.55% 106.97
2025-11-04 2025-11-11 $2.0682 $2.1634 +4.60% 111.89
2025-11-15 2025-11-22 $1.7415 $1.3902 -20.17% 89.32
2025-12-02 2025-12-09 $1.3458 $1.6112 +19.72% 106.94
2026-01-21 2026-01-28 $1.4932 $1.4615 -2.12% 104.67
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $1.3417 $0.9010 -32.85% 70.29
2026-02-23 2026-03-02 $0.9132 $0.9178 +0.51% 70.65
2026-03-07 2026-03-14 $0.9284 $1.0125 +9.06% 77.05
2026-03-19 2026-03-26 $1.0077 $1.0025 -0.51% 76.65
2026-03-27 2026-04-03 $0.9523 $0.8625 -9.43% 69.43
2026-04-13 2026-04-20 $0.9019 $0.9235 +2.40% 71.09
2026-06-02 2026-06-09 $0.8784 $0.7549 -14.05% 61.10
2026-08-29 2026-09-05 $0.7437 $0.7554 +1.58% 62.07

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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