STRATEGY CHECK
MACD + 200 EMA
Momentum · Trading Rush YouTube MACD strategy (the 100-trade test video) · Original video ↗
Video figures: 100 manual trades on 30m forex · 62% wins · +50%
Backtest result
BTCUSDT spot daily · 2020–2025
This strategy+31.7%Buy & hold+1,114.5%
- Trades
- 12
- Win rate
- 58.3%
- Max drawdown
- −37.2%
- Profit factor
- 1.32
- Annualized return
- +4.7%
- Time in market
- 20.3%
What the result shows
- Buying and holding over the same period returned +1,114.5%. This strategy returned +31.7%, less than that.
- It held a position 20.3% of the time and sat in cash for the rest.
- Only 12 trades in 6 years. With a sample this small, a few trades decide the result.
- Along the way equity fell as much as −37.2% from its previous peak.
Rules
- Entry
- Close > 200 EMA and MACD crosses above its signal line below zero
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 1.5R target
- What changed when written as rules
- Originally tested on 30-minute forex charts; the same rules here on daily BTC
- 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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