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Does Bounce off the lower Bollinger band work on GBP/USD?

Bounce off the lower Bollinger band beats buy-and-hold on GBP/USD by +1.8 points a year over 23 years.

Total return
18.5%
Buy and hold
-21.2%
CAGR
0.8%
Sharpe
-0.70
Max drawdown
-13.6%
Trades
216
Out of sample
overfit
Years
23
0.7×0.9×1×1.2×200420062008201020122014201620182020202220242026
StrategyGBP/USD

Findings

  1. Bounce off the lower Bollinger band beats buy-and-hold on GBP/USD by +1.8 points a year over 23 years.
  2. Against the S&P 500 over the same window: -10.3 points a year.
  3. Total return +18.5% versus -21.2% for buy-and-hold, with 216 trades.
  4. The result does not hold out of sample: it is overfit.
  5. Maximum drawdown -13.6%.
  6. It beats in both halves of the history (split at 2015).
  7. It ranks #151 of 235 markets for this strategy by annual excess over the S&P 500.

Findings derived from the full panel. Each carries its number and its denominator; the computations are reproducible with artifact 30497848a621.

Exactly what was tested

Close crosses back above the lower band (20, 2σ) after piercing it → entry. Close reaches the 20-day mean → exit.

How to read it

The verdict compares the strategy with buying and holding GBP/USD over the same window, with round-trip costs per asset class. “Out of sample” is walk-forward: the rule is fit on one stretch and judged on the next. A result that beats in the full sample but not out of it is overfit. Full methodology in the protocol. How we test.

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How to cite

Finaxion Research (2026). Does Bounce off the lower Bollinger band work on GBP/USD?. Daily backtest 1962-01-01–2026-08-31, artifact 30497848a621. https://finaxion.app/en/research/bollinger-bounce/gbpusd

Not a recommendation. Past performance does not guarantee future results.