Historical rule simulator

Backtest: When Bitcoin Drops 5% in a Day

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy when bitcoin drops 5% 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 Avalanche

6 historical signal(s) detected for Avalanche; 5 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (1 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades5
Win rate40.0%
Average return / trade-6.29%
Compounded total return-31.57%
Max drawdown-34.21%
Buy & hold, same period-68.20%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $20.8648 $19.9597 -4.34% 95.66
2025-11-21 2025-11-28 $13.8139 $15.0210 +8.74% 104.02
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $11.0771 $8.3277 -24.82% 78.20
2026-02-06 2026-02-13 $8.3277 $8.9723 +7.74% 84.26
2026-06-03 2026-06-10 $8.1696 $6.6353 -18.78% 68.43

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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