Buy at opening candle range breakoutlong
Backtest Results @ TSLA β€’ 5 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 6.2 months of TSLA β€’ 5 Minutes (Tesla, Inc.) data, from January 28, 2025 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
Strategy
Asset
Strategy Drawdown
Asset Drawdown

So, we have backtested Buy at opening candle range breakout on 6.2 months of TSLA β€’ 5 Minutes candles.Β This backtest resulted in 76 positions, with the average win rate of 68% and reward-risk ratio of 0.90.Β If you assume that 0.90 reward-to-risk ratio holds, you need a minimum win rate of 52.6 to be profitable. So you're looking good so far.Β However, 76 positions is a small sample size, so take the results with a huge grain of salt.Β The key metrics are as follows:

  1. Total Return: Total Return: 47.40% vs -22.20% for the asset
  2. Max Drawdown: Max Drawdown: -7.10% vs -48.50% for the asset
  3. Exposure: Exposure: 21.20% time in the market
  4. Win Rate: Win Rate: 68.0%, vs 52.6% minimum
  5. Reward/Risk Ratio: Reward/Risk Ratio: 0.90

With that exposure in mind, you can tell that for 21% time-in-market, you get -213.51% of the asset upside potential, and 14.64% of the asset downside potential.

Buy at opening candle range breakout: enter a position when

All of the following: # Papa
  5min Opening range JS, Entry Signal emerged

Buy at opening candle range breakout: exit a position when

All of the following: # X-ray
  5min Opening range JS, Exit Signal emerged

Buy at opening candle range breakout @ TSLA β€’ 5 Minutes (47.4%) backtest results explained by Alex C, Mike, Sarah

Alex C

Author

These backtest results look quite promising, but we must be careful with our conclusions. The strategy shows good statistical significance with 76 trades over 6.2 months - that's enough sample size to make initial judgements.

The win rate of 68% combined with nearly equal average win (1.60%) and loss sizes (-1.78%) is mathematically sound. This creates a positive expectancy of 0.3, which is quite decent. What I find particularly interessting is the low market exposure of 21.2% - this means the strategy is not constantly in the market, which reduces overall risk exposure significantly. The max drawdown of -7.1% is also quite acceptable when compared to the asset's drawdown of -48.5%.

However, I see some potential concerns here. The average hold time of 26.9 candles (about 2.2 hours) means this is not exactly a scalping strategy, so slippage might affect real performance differently than in backtest. Also, while the strategy performed well in a declining market (asset CAGR -45.4%), we should test it in different market conditions to ensure it's not just working well in bear markets. I would suggest running additional backtests with different timeperiods to verify the robustness of these metrics.

Mike

Author

Yo fam, these TSLA backtest results are looking pretty fire! πŸš€ The strategy is crushing it with a 47.4% gain while TSLA itself was down 22% - that's some serious alpha right there! πŸ’ͺ

The numbers are looking super clean too - 68% win rate is no joke, and the average winner is pretty close to the average loser (1.6% vs -1.78%). What really gets me hyped is that tiny 7.1% drawdown compared to TSLA's crazy -48.5% drawdown. That's the kind of risk management that keeps you from getting rekt! The strategy only keeps you in the market 21% of the time, which means you're not bagholding through the rough patches.

Listen up though fam - while I'm definitely feeling bullish about these results, we gotta stay grounded. The backtest only covers 6 months, so we might wanna see how it performs over different market conditions. But with those Sharpe and Sortino ratios above 3, and nearly a trade per day, this could be a solid strategy to throw some tendies at! πŸ— Just remember to start small and scale up gradually. To the moon! πŸŒ™

Sarah

Author

Madre mΓ­a, let me tear this apart for you. The results look suspiciously good, which makes me very skeptical.

First off, a 68% win rate with almost balanced Risk/Reward is too good to be true for a simple breakout strategy. This screams curve fitting to me. And don't get me start with that ridiculous 47.4% profit while the underlying asset lost 22.2% - you're telling me you've found the holy grail of trading? Por favor! These numbers are typicaly beginner's trap.

The exposure is quite low at 21.2% which actually makes sense for a breakout strategy, but combining this with almost daily trades (0.8 per day) makes me wonder if you're not catching too many false signals. Having average position lasting 26.9 candles (about 2.2 hours) with 5-minute timeframe is actually decent - at least you're not doing that idiotic scalping nonsense.

Your drawdown is suspiciously low at 7.1% compared to asset's 48.5%. Either you're incredibly lucky with your backtest period, or more likely, you've optimized this strategy to death on this specific data set. I bet if you test it on different periods, it will fall apart faster than a cheap IKEA furniture.

Do yourself a favor - test this on different time periods and with slightly modified parameters. If the results stay anywhere close - I will eat my sombrero.

Tabular metrics of Buy at opening candle range breakout backtested on TSLA β€’ 5 Minutes

Total Trades76Net Profit47.4%Buy & Hold Profit-22.2%
Win Rate68%Reward/Risk Ratio0.90Max Drawdown-7.1%
Asset Max Drawdown-48.5%Exposure21.2%Avg Candles in Position26.9
Sharpe Ratio3.39Sortino Ratio4.44Realized Volatility26.07%
Max Winning Streak8Avg Winning Streak2.7Max Losing Streak3
Avg Losing Streak1.3Avg Trades per Month24.6Avg Trades per Day0.8
Return Std Dev2.0Loss Std Dev1.0Win Std Dev1.4
Expectancy0.3Beta0.12

All backtests for Buy at opening candle range breakout

backtestexposurepeformance vs assetdrawdown vs assetwin%reward/risk
BTCUSDT β€’ 10 Minutes
15%(1.0%/4.2%) 0.24x(-4.6%/-11.1%) 0.41x560.9
EURUSD β€’ 10 Minutes
22%(0.8%/2.1%) 0.38x(-1.7%/-3.6%) 0.47x870.2
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