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Which strategy works on UAL?

On UAL, 2 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample.

Findings

On UAL, 2 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample. The best is Wyckoff: buying the accumulation: +4.2 points a year over buying and holding UAL. The worst is the Turtles: 55-day breakout: -12.7 points a year against buy-and-hold.

  1. On UAL, 2 of 20 famous strategies beat buy-and-hold on daily bars; 0 of them hold out of sample.
  2. The best is Wyckoff: buying the accumulation: +4.2 points a year over buying and holding UAL.
  3. The worst is the Turtles: 55-day breakout: -12.7 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
Wyckoff: buying the accumulation661.2%240.6%+4.2%-0.8%overfit135
ADX: trade only in strong trends412.3%240.6%+2.1%-2.9%overfit628
2-day RSI (the Connors rule)124.3%240.6%-2.1%-7.2%overfit498
The MACD cross (12/26/9)66.5%240.6%-3.6%-8.7%partly390
Supertrend: the line that changes colour54.0%240.6%-4.0%-9.0%overfit40
RSI 14: buy oversold (30/70)49.9%240.6%-4.2%-9.2%overfit38
Kaufman’s adaptive moving average (KAMA)31.1%240.6%-4.8%-9.8%overfit754
ICT / Smart Money: the fair value gap13.7%240.6%-5.5%-10.5%overfit152
Only invest above the 200-day average3.1%240.6%-6.0%-11.0%overfit183
ICT / Smart Money: the order block2.5%240.6%-6.0%-11.1%2
Heikin Ashi: follow the coloured candles-1.7%240.6%-6.2%-11.2%overfit1376
Smart Money: the liquidity sweep-4.0%240.6%-6.3%-11.4%overfit66
Bounce off the lower Bollinger band-36.9%240.6%-8.4%-13.4%overfit165
“Sell in May and go away”-40.9%240.6%-8.7%-13.7%overfit41
Ichimoku: buy above the cloud-44.1%240.6%-8.9%-14.0%overfit328
Stochastic: oversold cross (14, 3)-46.8%240.6%-9.2%-14.2%overfit275
Parabolic SAR: follow the dots-48.2%240.6%-9.3%-14.3%overfit458
Upper Bollinger band breakout-49.9%240.6%-9.5%-14.5%overfit294
The golden cross (50/200)-66.8%240.6%-11.4%-16.4%overfit37
The Turtles: 55-day breakout-75.3%240.6%-12.7%-17.8%overfit80

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