Which trading strategies actually work?

33 strategies, back-tested every day on popular stocks and coins, after trading costs. Best first. Tap one to see every stock.

Strategy	Kept a trade	Kept money on	Hit rate	Signals	Family
Engulfing pattern	+0.06R	7 of 9	28%	685	pattern
Volume confirmation	+0.04R	27 of 46	30%	2,813	volume
Pin bar	+0.03R	27 of 47	28%	3,760	pattern
ADX DI cross	+0.01R	26 of 48	28%	5,862	trend
MFI extremes	+0.01R	22 of 48	27%	14,191	volume
CCI reversion	+0.01R	24 of 48	27%	13,838	mean reversion
RSI reversion	+0.01R	25 of 48	27%	15,401	mean reversion
Z-score reversion	+0.01R	24 of 48	27%	15,617	mean reversion
OBV divergence	0.00R	23 of 48	27%	8,959	volume
VWAP band fade	0.00R	22 of 48	27%	9,674	mean reversion
Parabolic SAR flip	0.00R	25 of 48	27%	17,912	trend
Bollinger fade	0.00R	20 of 48	26%	6,029	mean reversion
Market structure	0.00R	26 of 48	27%	17,912	structure
Keltner reversion	0.00R	21 of 47	27%	4,644	mean reversion
Stochastic reversal	-0.01R	23 of 48	27%	12,631	mean reversion
Volatility expansion	-0.01R	16 of 30	28%	1,652	breakout
Accumulation trend	-0.01R	29 of 48	27%	16,978	volume
Supertrend follow	-0.01R	25 of 48	27%	17,912	trend
Gap behaviour	-0.01R	17 of 39	28%	9,711	structure
Trend stack	-0.01R	22 of 48	27%	17,622	trend
Pivot levels	-0.01R	18 of 48	27%	15,889	structure
ROC momentum	-0.01R	22 of 48	27%	15,933	trend
Williams reversal	-0.01R	22 of 48	27%	15,306	mean reversion
Momentum thrust	-0.01R	6 of 12	29%	589	pattern
VWAP position	-0.01R	21 of 48	26%	16,602	structure
Aroon trend	-0.01R	22 of 48	27%	17,297	trend
Donchian breakout	-0.01R	21 of 48	26%	8,530	breakout
MACD momentum	-0.01R	18 of 48	27%	11,834	trend
TSI trend	-0.01R	22 of 48	27%	13,408	trend
Ichimoku cloud	-0.02R	19 of 48	26%	17,912	trend
Linear regression channel	-0.02R	23 of 48	26%	11,722	trend
Squeeze breakout	-0.02R	5 of 8	29%	351	breakout
Inside bar break	-0.05R	3 of 11	23%	597	breakout

How we tested

Up to 5 years of daily prices for each stock and coin.
Every time the strategy leaned up or down, we took a pretend trade that way. Stop 1.5 ATR away, target 2.25 ATR away, closed after 10 trading days if it hit neither. ATR is how much the price usually moves in a day.
Worked means it reached the target before the stop. If both were touched on the same day, we count it as a loss.
Costs come off every trade: 0.02% a round trip for stocks, 0.2% for crypto.
Kept a trade is in R, the amount risked. +0.10R means 10 cents kept for every dollar risked, on average, after costs.
Strategies that fired fewer than 40 times on a stock are left out: that few is luck.

Re-run every day. Past results do not promise future ones. This is software output, not financial advice.

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Fetching data, running 34 strategies, and back-testing each one against this instrument's own history.