TRADLEWARE-HODL — Strategy by cs_lev
By cs_lev
Performance Metrics
- Author: cs_lev
- Symbol: BINANCE:BTCUSDT
- Timeframe: 1 day
- Win Rate: 100.0%
Description
Buy and Hold BenchmarkThis is a passive reference strategy, not a signal-based trading system. It exists to give an honest baseline: buy once, hold through everything, and see what an active strategy actually needs to beat.How it worksBuy-and-hold ("HODL") is the simplest possible approach to markets: put the money in once and do nothing else, regardless of what price does afterward. There is no attempt to time entries or exits, no reaction to drawdowns, and no risk management of any kind. Any active strategy that cannot beat this, risk-adjusted, over the same period has not demonstrated an edge.EntryThe entire starting capital is deployed in a single buy, on the first bar at or after the start date.ExitThe position is held until the end date, or the end of the chart's available history, whichever comes first — at which point it is closed once so the backtest can report a final equity figure. This is bookkeeping, not a trading decision; the whole point of the strategy is that it does not exit early.Parameters Start Date / End Date: the single buy fires on the first bar at or after the start date; the position is held until the end datePosition sizing is set to 99.95% of equity rather than a full 100%. That small gap avoids a TradingView position-sizing rounding artifact that can otherwise show up as an extra "Margin call" row even on a strategy with only one real trade; the effect on the actual result is negligible.Costs modelled0.1% commission per side, 3 ticks slippage.Intended assets and timeframeWorks on any asset or timeframe — there is no technical logic to adapt, just a buy date and a hold period.Known limitationsFull exposure to every drawdown the asset experiences, for the entire holding period, by design. This is not a flaw to fix — it is the deliberate point of comparison for any strategy that claims to manage risk better than doing nothing.