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$SPY Calm Breakout Strategy
Systematic strategy on an S&P 500 ETF with an 85% win rate

Over a ~21 year period (from Jan 2004 to Jan 2025), this SPY ( ▼ 2.66% ) strategy returned a 6.7% Annual Rate of Return, with a Max Drawdown of -17.1%. This strategy has a high Win Rate of 85% with an Expectancy (average return per trade) of 1.43%.
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Backtest Statistics

Note: These returns are hypothetical backtested returns and do not represent the returns that any investor received.
Yearly and Monthly Returns

This strategy delivers positive backtested returns in 13 out of 21 years from 2004 to 2024.
Drawdowns

The maximum drawdown of 17.1% occured in 2023.
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