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The popular strategies, tested

Seventeen textbook rules through our own engine on real data since 2016, costs charged, the last third held out. Traded both ways most of them lost; long only, most made money; none beat holding the index. Every trade is listed

Trailing stop
9/21 EMA cross, 3 ATR trail · SPY daily
Both ways
+79.8%
Long only
+147.4%
Held-out third: survived
SuperTrend
ATR 10, factor 3 · SPY daily
Both ways
-17.8%
Long only
+100.1%
Held-out third: survived
RSI
RSI 14, 30/70 · SPY daily
Both ways
-30.4%
Long only
+14.1%
Held-out third: did not survive
Golden cross
50/200 SMA · SPY daily, 8 trades
Both ways
+20.1%
Long only
+95.4%
Held-out third: too few trades
200-day SMA
price cross · SPY daily
Both ways
+4.4%
Long only
+91.0%
Held-out third: survived
Parabolic SAR
0.02 / 0.2 · SPY daily
Both ways
-27.5%
Long only
+86.6%
Held-out third: did not survive
EMA crossover
9/21 · SPY daily
Both ways
+11.7%
Long only
+58.2%
Held-out third: decayed
MACD
12/26/9 · SPY daily
Both ways
-4.5%
Long only
+46.4%
Held-out third: did not survive
Donchian breakout
20-day in, 10-day out · SPY daily
Both ways
-30.0%
Long only
+24.8%
Held-out third: did not survive
Bollinger Bands
20, 2.0 · SPY daily
Both ways
-28.2%
Long only
+2.0%
Held-out third: did not survive
Stochastic
14, 3, 3 at 80/20 · SPY daily
Both ways
-54.2%
Long only
+28.0%
Held-out third: did not survive
Keltner Channel
20, 2 ATR breakout · SPY daily
Both ways
-34.9%
Long only
+12.8%
Held-out third: did not survive
Mean reversion
20-day MA, 3% envelope · SPY daily
Both ways
-34.4%
Long only
+16.6%
Held-out third: did not survive
EMA pullback
20/50 · SPY daily
Both ways
+1.9%
Long only
-7.4%
Held-out third: survived
Opening range breakout
first 30 minutes · SPY 5-minute
Both ways
-52.4%
Long only
-36.7%
Held-out third: did not survive
VWAP reclaim
2-bar confirm · SPY 5-minute
Both ways
-98.3%
Long only
-85.8%
Held-out third: did not survive
Buy the open
in 09:30, out 15:55 · SPY 5-minute
Both ways
-42.2%
Trades
600
Held-out third: did not survive

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Every trade marked on the chart

Where it went in, where it came out and what each trade made, drawn on the chart and listed underneath

NVDA1D Indicators
NVDA1DO 224.34 H 228.64 L 223.06 C 228.53
SuperTrend Strategy
EMA 20228.49
1M3M6M1Y5YAll16:00
BacktestOptimiserScreenerScriptStrategies8LogSuperTrend Strategy · NVDA · 1D
OverviewPerformanceDrawdownList of Trades
#EntrySidePriceExitPriceBarsP&LP&L $
3610 Apr 25Long109.378 Sep 25167.50102+53.05 %+$53,050
3723 Sep 25Long182.037 Nov 25184.8433+1.45 %+$1,450
3829 Jan 26Long191.405 Feb 26174.945−8.70 %−$8,700
3925 Feb 26Long194.532 Mar 26174.963−10.16 %−$10,160
4010 Apr 26Long184.378 Jun 26210.1040+13.86 %+$13,860
416 Aug 26Long221.6013 Oct 26228.4747+3.00 %+$3,000

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BacktestOptimiserScreenerScriptStrategies8LogNVDA · 1D
StrategySuperTrend Strategy Costs5 bps + 2.5 bps Run backtest
OverviewPerformanceDrawdownList of Trades
no future datafills next opencosts inruns as written
Net profit
+4153.9%

+$4,153,936 on $100k

Closed trades
41

4 a year

Percent profitable
53.7%

22 won · 19 lost

Profit factor
5.06

gross win ÷ gross loss

Max drawdown
−41.7%

deepest 29 Jan 19

Avg trade
+15.26%

+$15,257 a trade

41 trades over 10.8 years of NVDA · fills at the next open · costs on every fill

Dial in the settings

Every combination of the settings tried in seconds, then the winner checked on stretches of history it never saw. Keep a setting that holds up, not one lucky cell

BacktestOptimiserScreenerScriptStrategies8LogSuperTrend Strategy · AMD · 1D
SymbolAMD Timeframe1D Running 1 of 100
1.52.334.56
0
1
2
3
ATR multiplier across, target down, ATR length 8 · Sharpe on every cell
Clears the noise floorPlateau

These settings hold up. The best of 100 random tries would score 0.94 — this one scored 1.15, and it held up in 3 of the 3 slices it never saw. The settings either side score 1.10 and 1.09, so this is a plateau rather than one lucky cell.

Accept as a new versionOne symbol, one price history, costs modelled and not filled. A good result here is a reason to test it elsewhere.

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Run your strategy on all US stocks and see which ones it has just gone long, with the size, the sector and the open trade beside each

BacktestOptimiserScreenerScriptStrategies8LogSuperTrend Strategy · NVDA · 1D
Symbol or nameStrategySuperTrend Strategy Same as chartTimeframe1D TriggerAllLongShortFreshAll sectors
screening 0 of 1,184 · SuperTrend Strategy on daily
TickerNameSectorMarket cap ↓Price1Dvs 200 SMATriggerAgeOpen P/L
WMTWalmart Inc.Consumer Staples$899.7B112.28+2.16%−5.0%Longfresh2+2.1%
VVisa Inc.Financials$737.9B396.23−0.66%+17.0%Longfresh1+2.7%
MAMastercard IncorporatedFinancials$528.4B604.87+0.11%+13.6%Longfresh1+2.0%
KOCoca-Cola Company (The)Consumer Staples$388.4B90.12+1.30%+11.8%Longfresh0−0.5%
PGProcter & Gamble Company (The)Consumer Staples$356.3B153.05+1.44%+3.5%Longfresh2+1.6%
PMPhilip Morris International IncConsumer Staples$313.1B199.40+1.36%+11.2%Longfresh2−0.0%
DISWalt Disney Company (The)Communication Services$188.1B108.58−0.12%+4.8%Longfresh0−0.9%
COPConocoPhillipsEnergy$171.4B140.90+0.47%+19.4%Longfresh0+1.8%
BUDAnheuser-Busch Inbev SA SponsorConsumer Staples$155.6B78.60+0.27%+2.5%Longfresh0−1.1%
CBChubb LimitedFinancials$133.9B346.14+0.51%+4.6%Longfresh2+1.0%

Scan the market

Say what you're looking for. Alpha AI runs it on all US stocks and lists the ones that fit today

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Scan the market

Describe the names you want: a moving average, a breakout, an RSI level, a sector, a size. I run it across the scanner's 1,184 US stocks and list the ones that fit today.

Above the 200-day with RSI under 40New 52-week highs todayUp on twice the usual volume

See the order flow

Delta and cumulative delta built from every trade in the session, with the volume profile, drawn on the chart

NVDA5m Indicators
NVDA5mC 231.859 Oct
VP sessionPOC 229.61 VAH 230.91 VAL 229.11
Volume Delta · trades1.2M
Cumulative Delta · trades1.2M
1D5D1M16:00
1,494,069 trades in the session, each read as buying or selling

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Earnings dates and surprises, the economic calendar, a trade journal and a coach, one click from the chart

NVDA1D Indicators
1M3M6M1Y5YAll16:00
Earningswho reports when
This week26–30 Oct‹›All days
This week29 names
Mon26–
Tue27–
Wed28211
Thu29331
Fri3052

Wednesday 28 Octtoday9 of 211 reports

Before open3
GEV
APH
UBS
After close6
GOOGL
MSFT
TMUS
NOW
BBVA
FTNT

Thursday 29 Octtomorrow10 of 331 reports

Before open7
LLY
MA
MRK
CAT
SHEL
LIN
TTE
After close3
AMZN
INTC
SNDK

Friday 30 Octin 2 days10 of 52 reports

Before open10
XOM
ABBV
CVX
AZN
BP
SNY
GD
REGN
CL
CNI
After close
None
CoachJournalConceptsIndicatorsEarningsEconomyGamma

Gamma, on the chart

The option book by strike beside the chart, and on it the walls, the flip and the move the market is pricing in, from the real chain

NVDA1D Indicators
NVDA1DO 211.04 H 213.85 L 210.18 C 211.00
EMA 20221.59
Alpha OptionsFlip · Call wall · Put wall · Straddle to 20 Nov ±9.1%
1M3M6M1Y5YAll16:00
Gammathe option book, by strike
NVDA · 211.1every expiry
Positive gamma

Above the flip at 207.29. Dealers hedge against the move; ranges tend to tighten.

Net gamma
$148M
Net delta
$15B
Flip
207.29 · −1.8%
Most gamma
230 · +8.9%
C1 230 +8.9%C2 250 +18.4%C3 260 +23.2%P1 205 −2.9%P2 190 −10.0%P3 185 −12.4%
PutsStrikeCalls
−$17.9M235$53.9M
−$0.2M232.5$3.4M
−$45.8M230C1$149M
−$1.7M228$9.1M
−$0.9M227.5$6.2M
−$1.2M227$1.4M
−$0.8M226$2.4M
−$53.3M225$92.4M
−$1.2M224$1M
−$0.6M223$1.3M
−$2.4M222.5$13.8M
−$0.9M222$1.7M
−$3.4M221$2.5M
−$97.3M220$140M
−$1.3M219$1M
−$0.9M218$1.7M
−$15.9M217.5$52.6M
−$2.7M217$2.2M
−$1.2M216$1.7M
−$92.6M215$69.5M
−$2M214$1.5M
−$1.5M213$1.5M
−$22.1M212.5$14.4M
−$2.7M212$1.3M
−$148M210$113M
−$16.1M207.5$3.4M
−$91.8M205P1$22.3M
−$6.7M202.5$2.7M
−$179M200$178M
−$10M197.5$0.9M
−$54.7M195$16.4M
−$1.7M194$5.3M
−$1.1M193$0.6M
−$1.6M192.5$0.1M
−$1.1M192$0.4M
−$1.3M191$0.6M
−$100M190P2$45.2M
−$1.5M189$1.9M
−$1.6M188$0.7M
−$0.3M187.5$0M
−$1.6M187$0.6M
−$1.8M186$0.8M
CoachJournalConceptsIndicatorsEarningsEconomyGamma

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