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 TRON

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

Completed trades9
Win rate44.4%
Average return / trade-1.18%
Compounded total return-10.79%
Max drawdown-11.74%
Buy & hold, same period+11.43%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-11-08 2025-11-15 $0.2923 $0.2925 +0.06% 100.06
2025-12-07 2025-12-14 $0.2873 $0.2710 -5.67% 94.38
2025-12-15 2025-12-22 $0.2772 $0.2882 +3.97% 98.14
2025-12-26 2026-01-02 $0.2786 $0.2870 +2.99% 101.07
2026-01-22 2026-01-29 $0.2992 $0.2953 -1.32% 99.74
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $0.2948 $0.2693 -8.66% 91.10
2026-03-20 2026-03-27 $0.3035 $0.3115 +2.62% 93.49
2026-06-03 2026-06-10 $0.3323 $0.3227 -2.89% 90.78
2026-07-08 2026-07-15 $0.3315 $0.3257 -1.73% 89.21

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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