Historical rule simulator

Backtest: When Fear & Greed Falls Below 25

Simulates one mechanical rule โ€” buy when fear & greed falls below 25, 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

14 historical signal(s) detected for Solana; 11 non-overlapping trade(s) taken at a 7-day hold (3 skipped because a position was already open).

Completed trades11
Win rate54.5%
Average return / trade-1.77%
Compounded total return-23.97%
Max drawdown-33.76%
Buy & hold, same period-59.19%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-12 2025-10-19 $177.9843 $187.6503 +5.43% 105.43
2025-10-22 2025-10-29 $185.7244 $194.2987 +4.62% 110.30
2025-11-04 2025-11-11 $165.8882 $167.3829 +0.90% 111.29
2025-12-06 2025-12-13 $133.2320 $132.3024 -0.70% 110.52
2025-12-13 2025-12-20 $132.3024 $126.1940 -4.62% 105.41
2026-01-10 2026-01-17 $135.8671 $144.9119 +6.66% 112.43
2026-01-21 2026-01-28 $126.1076 $127.2051 +0.87% 113.41
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $117.8830 $78.4043 -33.49% 75.43
2026-05-19 2026-05-26 $85.3192 $84.9768 -0.40% 75.13
2026-07-14 2026-07-21 $74.9313 $77.7489 +3.76% 77.95
2026-07-31 2026-08-07 $74.4630 $72.6305 -2.46% 76.03

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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