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Which strategy works on TLT?

On TLT, 0 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample.

Findings

On TLT, 0 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample. The best is Supertrend: the line that changes colour: -1.5 points a year over buying and holding TLT. The worst is Heikin Ashi: follow the coloured candles: -11.8 points a year against buy-and-hold.

  1. On TLT, 0 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample.
  2. The best is Supertrend: the line that changes colour: -1.5 points a year over buying and holding TLT.
  3. The worst is Heikin Ashi: follow the coloured candles: -11.8 points a year against buy-and-hold.

The 20 strategies, one by one

StrategyReturnBuy and holdExcess (pts/yr)Vs. S&P 500 (pts/yr)Out of sampleTrades
Supertrend: the line that changes colour62.4%131.2%-1.5%-9.2%overfit54
The Turtles: 55-day breakout59.4%131.2%-1.6%-9.3%overfit86
The golden cross (50/200)41.1%131.2%-2.1%-9.8%overfit44
“Sell in May and go away”39.4%131.2%-2.2%-9.9%overfit48
Wyckoff: buying the accumulation32.1%131.2%-2.4%-10.1%overfit171
RSI 14: buy oversold (30/70)31.5%131.2%-2.4%-10.1%overfit35
Ichimoku: buy above the cloud29.0%131.2%-2.5%-10.2%overfit306
ICT / Smart Money: the fair value gap6.9%131.2%-3.3%-11.0%overfit186
ICT / Smart Money: the order block-1.8%131.2%-3.6%-11.3%overfit62
Bounce off the lower Bollinger band-1.9%131.2%-3.6%-11.3%overfit184
Parabolic SAR: follow the dots-2.4%131.2%-3.6%-11.4%overfit521
Stochastic: oversold cross (14, 3)-3.5%131.2%-3.7%-11.4%overfit336
Only invest above the 200-day average-9.7%131.2%-4.0%-11.7%overfit264
Smart Money: the liquidity sweep-13.4%131.2%-4.1%-11.9%overfit70
The MACD cross (12/26/9)-16.3%131.2%-4.3%-12.0%overfit479
2-day RSI (the Connors rule)-21.6%131.2%-4.6%-12.3%overfit520
ADX: trade only in strong trends-45.2%131.2%-6.0%-13.7%overfit863
Upper Bollinger band breakout-51.7%131.2%-6.5%-14.2%overfit420
Kaufman’s adaptive moving average (KAMA)-55.6%131.2%-6.9%-14.6%overfit861
Heikin Ashi: follow the coloured candles-87.3%131.2%-11.8%-19.5%overfit1738

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