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 TRON

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

Completed trades11
Win rate45.5%
Average return / trade-0.58%
Compounded total return-7.24%
Max drawdown-11.49%
Buy & hold, same period+3.91%

Hypothetical growth of $100

Entry dateExit dateEntry priceExit priceTrade returnEquity after
2025-10-12 2025-10-19 $0.3146 $0.3131 -0.47% 99.53
2025-10-22 2025-10-29 $0.3219 $0.2956 -8.16% 91.41
2025-11-04 2025-11-11 $0.2811 $0.2963 +5.39% 96.33
2025-12-06 2025-12-13 $0.2856 $0.2738 -4.14% 92.34
2025-12-13 2025-12-20 $0.2738 $0.2800 +2.26% 94.43
2026-01-10 2026-01-17 $0.2982 $0.3088 +3.55% 97.78
2026-01-21 2026-01-28 $0.2969 $0.2943 -0.90% 96.90
2026-01-30 2026-02-06 $0.2948 $0.2693 -8.66% 88.51
2026-05-19 2026-05-26 $0.3554 $0.3714 +4.50% 92.50
2026-07-14 2026-07-21 $0.3242 $0.3267 +0.76% 93.20
2026-07-31 2026-08-07 $0.3285 $0.3269 -0.48% 92.76

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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