Buy at opening candle range breakoutlong
Backtest Results @ TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes

This intraday breakout strategy seeks to enter once price breads above the opening candle High, at any stage of a day. It takes profit on Opening Range High+Opening Range Size, and it has a stop loss at Opening Range Low. It never carries a position overnight; it always exits at the last candle of a day in case if no other exit conditions were met.

Equity Curve

Backtest covers 18.7 months of TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes (Tesla, Inc.) data, from January 17, 2024 to August 1, 2025.

Equity curve is the strategy's performance over time. You should compare it to the asset's Buy & Hold performance. In general, you want the blue area to be well above the gray area.

Drawdown is how much losses (realized or unrealized) the strategy has had if compared to the highest equity peak. Compare this to the asset's drawdown to see whether your strategy does a decent job of isolating you from downside volatility. In general, the red area must be well within the gray area.

Equity Curve
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Asset Drawdown

So, we have backtested Buy at opening candle range breakout on 18.7 months of TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes candles.Β This backtest resulted in 193 positions, with the average win rate of 56% and reward-risk ratio of 0.88.Β If you assume that 0.88 reward-to-risk ratio holds, you need a minimum win rate of 53.2 to be profitable. So you're looking good so far.Β The key metrics are as follows:

  1. Total Return: Total Return: 16.30% vs 41.60% for the asset
  2. Max Drawdown: Max Drawdown: -20.00% vs -55.60% for the asset
  3. Exposure: Exposure: 26.90% time in the market
  4. Win Rate: Win Rate: 56.0%, vs 53.2% minimum
  5. Reward/Risk Ratio: Reward/Risk Ratio: 0.88

With that exposure in mind, you can tell that for 27% time-in-market, you get 39.18% of the asset upside potential, and 35.97% of the asset downside potential.

Buy at opening candle range breakout: enter a position when

All of the following: # Papa
  15min Opening range JS, Entry Signal emerged

Buy at opening candle range breakout: exit a position when

All of the following: # X-ray
  15min Opening range JS, Exit Signal emerged

Buy at opening candle range breakout @ TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes (16.3%) backtest results explained by Alex C, Sarah

Alex C

Author

The backtest results show some interesting patterns, but I am not fully convinced about the strategy's robustness. Let me explain why.

The win rate of 56% combined with a risk/reward ratio of 0.88 is actually not bad at all. What makes me concerned is the significant difference between strategy performance (16.3%) and buy & hold (41.6%). This suggests the strategy might be missing important moves in the market. The market exposure of only 26.9% confirms this - we are staying out of the market too much of the time.

The volatility metrics are quite interesting - the strategy's realized volatility (20.14%) is much lower than the asset's (67.11%). This means we are doing good job at risk management, but maybe we are being too conservative. The maximum drawdown of -20% is acceptable for TSLA trading, but the Sharpe ratio of 0.38 and negative Sortino ratio (-0.21) tell me the strategy is not generating enough excess returns for the risk it takes. The correlation of 0.33 shows we are not just following the market blindly - that's good.

I would suggest optimizing the entry conditions to increase market exposure while maintaining the solid win rate. Maybe we could look at adjusting the range breakout parameters to catch more moves. But overall, the strategy shows promise - it just needs some fine-tuning to improve its risk-adjusted returns.

Sarah

Author

Madre mΓ­a, this strategy is like a mediocre student trying to pass with minimal effort! Let me tell you why this is not impresive at all.

First, you're severely underperforming the market - 16.3% net profit versus 41.6% buy & hold? That's pathetic! You're basically losing money by trying to be clever instead of just buying and holding like a simpleton. The market exposure of 26.9% shows you're missing most of the actual moves, which explains the poor performance.

The risk metrics are absolutely terrible. A Sortino ratio of -0.21? That's embarassing! And that 20% maximum drawdown with such low market exposure is like getting a sunburn while sitting in the shade - it shouldn't happen! The Sharpe ratio of 0.38 is something I wouldn't even show to my worst enemy.

The only slightly decent thing here is the Win Rate of 56% with a 5.5% leeway above minimal required - but even this is nothing to write home about when your Risk/Reward ratio is below 1 (0.88). You're basically winning more often but losing more money when you lose - esta estrategia es una mierda completa!

If you're going to waste time implementing this strategy, you might as well just throw darts at a chart - might get better results!

Tabular metrics of Buy at opening candle range breakout backtested on TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes

Total Trades193Net Profit16.3%Buy & Hold Profit41.6%
Win Rate56%Reward/Risk Ratio0.88Max Drawdown-20.0%
Asset Max Drawdown-55.6%Exposure26.9%Avg Candles in Position13.0
Sharpe Ratio0.38Sortino Ratio-0.21Realized Volatility20.14%
Max Winning Streak9Avg Winning Streak2.0Max Losing Streak6
Avg Losing Streak1.6Avg Trades per Month20.6Avg Trades per Day0.7
Return Std Dev1.8Loss Std Dev1.1Win Std Dev1.1
Expectancy0.1Beta0.1

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EURUSD β€’ 10 Minutes
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GLD β€’ 10 Minutes
24%(0.8%/39.2%) 0.02x(-2.6%/-8.3%) 0.31x600.7
NVDA β€’ 10 Minutes
32%(25.9%/41.7%) 0.62x(-15.6%/-42.8%) 0.36x541.1
PLTR β€’ 10 Minutes
33%(38.1%/439.0%) 0.09x(-25.4%/-46.5%) 0.55x581.0
SPY β€’ 10 Minutes
22%(16.4%/12.3%) 1.33x(-5.5%/-20.7%) 0.27x680.8
TSLA β€’ 10 Minutes
29%(-7.9%/23.0%) -0.34x(-34.7%/-55.3%) 0.63x600.7
WMT β€’ 10 Minutes
32%(13.3%/40.0%) 0.33x(-9.1%/-23.8%) 0.38x630.8
BTCUSDT β€’ 15 Minutes
20%(2.3%/33.4%) 0.07x(-7.2%/-12.0%) 0.60x521.1
EURUSD β€’ 15 Minutes
27%(3.9%/8.2%) 0.48x(-1.4%/-4.3%) 0.33x830.3
GLD β€’ 15 Minutes
31%(4.0%/66.4%) 0.06x(-4.4%/-8.3%) 0.53x590.8
NVDA β€’ 15 Minutes
34%(69.7%/211.7%) 0.33x(-10.1%/-42.8%) 0.24x571.2
PLTR β€’ 15 Minutes
33%(124.3%/846.9%) 0.15x(-14.3%/-46.5%) 0.31x561.4
SPY β€’ 15 Minutes
24%(13.3%/31.8%) 0.42x(-4.4%/-21.1%) 0.21x620.8
TSLA β€’ 15 Minutes
27%(16.3%/41.6%) 0.39x(-20.0%/-55.6%) 0.36x560.9
WMT β€’ 15 Minutes
33%(27.2%/83.0%) 0.33x(-4.9%/-23.8%) 0.21x640.9
BTCUSDT β€’ 30 Minutes
21%(-3.7%/14.3%) -0.26x(-20.8%/-31.2%) 0.67x570.7
EURUSD β€’ 30 Minutes
35%(-1.1%/5.7%) -0.19x(-5.2%/-7.4%) 0.70x750.3
GLD β€’ 30 Minutes
34%(11.1%/87.3%) 0.13x(-6.9%/-11.8%) 0.58x551.0
NVDA β€’ 30 Minutes
34%(58.6%/1089.5%) 0.05x(-29.2%/-42.9%) 0.68x541.1
PLTR β€’ 30 Minutes
30%(19.4%/1516.1%) 0.01x(-41.6%/-48.4%) 0.86x540.9
SPY β€’ 30 Minutes
35%(18.1%/65.6%) 0.28x(-6.8%/-20.2%) 0.34x630.7
TSLA β€’ 30 Minutes
29%(62.0%/33.8%) 1.83x(-20.9%/-67.1%) 0.31x561.0
WMT β€’ 30 Minutes
32%(32.0%/138.6%) 0.23x(-6.5%/-23.8%) 0.27x581.1
BTCUSDT β€’ 5 Minutes
18%(2.2%/5.7%) 0.39x(-2.1%/-8.9%) 0.24x641.0
EURUSD β€’ 5 Minutes
23%(0.7%/0.8%) 0.87x(-0.7%/-3.7%) 0.19x880.2
GLD β€’ 5 Minutes
23%(-3.0%/21.5%) -0.14x(-7.3%/-8.0%) 0.91x610.5
NVDA β€’ 5 Minutes
29%(14.6%/42.5%) 0.34x(-9.3%/-38.8%) 0.24x610.9
PLTR β€’ 5 Minutes
26%(18.3%/95.6%) 0.19x(-14.7%/-46.6%) 0.32x551.1
SPY β€’ 5 Minutes
14%(5.4%/3.4%) 1.59x(-4.0%/-21.1%) 0.19x610.9
TSLA β€’ 5 Minutes
21%(47.4%/-22.2%) -2.14x(-7.1%/-48.5%) 0.15x680.9
WMT β€’ 5 Minutes
27%(12.5%/1.2%) 10.42x(-4.8%/-23.8%) 0.20x630.9