Historical rule simulator

Backtest: When Fear & Greed Falls Below 20

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy when fear & greed falls below 20, 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 Rain

12 historical signal(s) detected for Rain; 9 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (3 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades9
Win rate22.2%
Average return / trade-0.34%
Compounded total return-5.40%
Max drawdown-20.43%
Buy & hold, same period+346.09%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-11-08 2025-11-15 $0.0033 $0.0033 -2.18% 97.82
2025-12-07 2025-12-14 $0.0075 $0.0075 -0.75% 97.09
2025-12-15 2025-12-22 $0.0079 $0.0076 -3.53% 93.66
2025-12-26 2026-01-02 $0.0070 $0.0080 +14.64% 107.37
2026-01-22 2026-01-29 $0.0090 $0.0100 +10.72% 118.89
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $0.0095 $0.0088 -7.73% 109.70
2026-03-20 2026-03-27 $0.0089 $0.0084 -5.67% 103.48
2026-06-03 2026-06-10 $0.0138 $0.0127 -8.34% 94.85
2026-07-08 2026-07-15 $0.0149 $0.0148 -0.26% 94.60

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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