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 Solana

6 historical signal(s) detected for Solana; 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-8.75%
Compounded total return-40.59%
Max drawdown-41.59%
Buy & hold, same period-65.61%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-11 2025-10-18 $188.7926 $182.1459 -3.52% 96.48
2025-11-21 2025-11-28 $133.6111 $140.8465 +5.42% 101.70
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $117.8830 $78.4043 -33.49% 67.64
2026-02-06 2026-02-13 $78.4043 $78.6297 +0.29% 67.84
2026-06-03 2026-06-10 $74.1390 $64.9238 -12.43% 59.41

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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