Does the Vortex Indicator strategy beat buy & hold on Lowe's? (LOW · backtested honestly)
The Vortex Indicator builds two lines from the distance between each bar and the prior bar's opposite extreme — VI+ from this high versus the prior low, VI− from this low versus the prior high — each divided by the true range summed over a lookback.
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Change the parameters and the window, then re-run — no account needed.
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- • Max drawdown is the worst peak-to-trough fall you'd have sat through. A higher return with a much deeper drawdown is not obviously better.
- • Every fill assumes next-open execution with costs & slippage on — no acting on prices you couldn't have known.
- • A small number of trades means a small sample. Treat a great-looking result on a handful of trades with suspicion.
This is a hypothetical backtest of a well-known mechanism on past data. It is not advice, not a prediction, and not a claim that the strategy works. I hold no funds and place no orders. The value here is the ability to test an idea honestly — see where it would have helped, and where it would have hurt — before you ever risk real money on your own broker.
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