STRATEGY CHECK
Bollinger (30) + RSI(13) oversold
Mean reversion · TradingLab YouTube Bollinger + RSI strategy (about 1.8M views) · Original video ↗
Video figures: none (only "a pretty high success rate")
Backtest result
BTCUSDT spot daily · 2020–2025
This strategy+115.4%Buy & hold+1,114.5%
- Trades
- 10
- Win rate
- 80.0%
- Max drawdown
- −17.6%
- Profit factor
- 14.01
- Annualized return
- +13.6%
- Time in market
- 10.9%
What the result shows
- Buying and holding over the same period returned +1,114.5%. This strategy returned +115.4%, less than that.
- It held a position 10.9% of the time and sat in cash for the rest.
- Only 10 trades in 6 years. With a sample this small, a few trades decide the result.
- Along the way equity fell as much as −17.6% from its previous peak.
Rules
- Entry
- Close below the lower Bollinger band (30, 2) and RSI(13) < 25
- Exit
- Close back above the middle band (30-day SMA)
- What changed when written as rules
- The video gives no stop (-90% keeps it out of the way); the divergence variant is left out
- 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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