STRATEGY CHECK
Ichimoku TK cross above the cloud
Trend following · Goichi Hosoda's Ichimoku Kinko Hyo strong buy signal
Backtest result
BTCUSDT spot daily · 2020–2025
This strategy+32.9%Buy & hold+1,114.5%
- Trades
- 14
- Win rate
- 35.7%
- Max drawdown
- −29.7%
- Profit factor
- 1.56
- Annualized return
- +4.8%
- Time in market
- 12.9%
What the result shows
- Buying and holding over the same period returned +1,114.5%. This strategy returned +32.9%, less than that.
- It held a position 12.9% of the time and sat in cash for the rest.
- Only 14 trades in 6 years. With a sample this small, a few trades decide the result.
- Along the way equity fell as much as −29.7% from its previous peak.
Rules
- Entry
- Close above the cloud, Tenkan crosses above Kijun, close above the close 26 bars ago (Chikou)
- Exit
- Close below the Kijun-sen
- What changed when written as rules
- Default settings (9, 26, 52, 26); no separate stop, so -90% keeps it out of the way
- Test conditions
- BTCUSDT spot daily · 2020–2025 · 0.10% fee per side · 0.05% slippage · entry at the next open after a signal on a closed candle
This is a calculation of the rules on historical prices. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell any asset and does not promise returns. A different symbol, timeframe or period gives a different result. Results claimed by the original sources have not been verified by this service.
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