[Famous-PA] Darvas box breakout

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@djgambhir

BTCUSDT · 12h · 2021-12-302026-08-31 · 3,412 bars in 1.4ms

Underperformed the market. Holding BTCUSDT returned +65.39% over the same period, against this strategy’s +21.51%.

Net P&L
+21.51%
$2,151.36
Max drawdown
-11.45%
Max run-up
+36.26%
Trades
42
31.0% win rate
Profit factor
1.64
2021-12-30drawdown · worst -11.45%2026-08-31
TrainingValidationOut-of-sample
SegmentPeriodReturnMax drawdownTradesWin rate
Training2022-01-012024-10-19+15.33%-11.45%2532%
Validation2024-10-192025-09-24+3.35%-7.26%1127%
Out-of-sample2025-09-242026-08-31+1.94%-4.33%633%

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe
0.65
Sortino
0.98
Calmar
0.37
Return ÷ max drawdown
1.88
CAGR
+4.26%
Exposure
31.5%

Per trade

Expectancy
$51.22 · +2.05%
Average win / loss
$424.04 / −$115.90
Payoff ratio
3.66
Largest win / loss
$1,125.90 / −$240.83
Longest losing streak(winning: 2)
8 trades

Drawdown over time

Max drawdown
-11.45%
Longest time under water(still going at the end)
648 days
Worst drawdown recovered in
621 days

Costs and mechanics

Fees paid
−$114.77
Funding
−$429.10
Liquidations
0
Warmup bars(loaded before the start date)
19
Benchmark(buy and hold)
+65.39%

Monte Carlo

1,000 alternative histories, each 42 trades drawn at random from this run’s own. The bands hold the middle 50% and 90% of them; the solid line is what actually happened.

this runmedian of the historiesmiddle 50% · 90%
Unlucky (5%)TypicalLucky (95%)
Return-11.90%+18.20%+65.57%
Max drawdown-20.08%-10.88%-5.76%

18% of histories lost money, and 44% had a deeper drawdown than this run’s -11.45%. Assumes trades are independent; real losing streaks cluster, so the true spread is usually wider.

Settings

hh20 length
20
ll10 length
10
volsma length
20
atr14 length
14
Long entry: volume > ▢ × volsma
1.5
Stop loss (× atr14)
2
Leverage (×)
1
Position size (% of equity)
25

BTCUSDT with every trade

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long opened short opened closed at a profit closed at a loss

Trades

42 trades

#SideEntryExitHeldP&LReturnClosed by
1long2022-02-05 00:00 @ 41,558.312022-02-18 00:00 @ 40,483.7013d−$73.61-2.94%signal
2long2022-03-01 00:00 @ 43,163.632022-03-04 12:00 @ 39,060.233d 12h−$240.83-9.70%stop loss
3long2022-03-22 12:00 @ 42,985.502022-04-07 00:00 @ 43,151.1715d 12h−$2.54-0.11%signal
4long2022-07-08 00:00 @ 21,618.822022-07-12 00:00 @ 19,722.964d−$217.21-8.97%stop loss
5long2022-07-20 00:00 @ 23,390.582022-07-25 12:00 @ 21,927.215d 12h−$153.51-6.49%signal
6long2022-09-09 12:00 @ 20,935.892022-09-14 12:00 @ 19,625.275d−$150.89-6.48%stop loss
7long2022-10-26 00:00 @ 20,072.312022-11-08 12:00 @ 19,684.9613d 12h−$49.92-2.18%signal
8long2022-12-01 00:00 @ 17,156.832022-12-17 00:00 @ 16,620.7816d−$77.11-3.38%signal
9long2023-01-09 12:00 @ 17,235.652023-02-10 00:00 @ 21,788.9431d 12h$567.02+25.10%signal
10long2023-02-16 00:00 @ 24,337.572023-02-24 12:00 @ 23,140.588d 12h−$126.52-5.27%stop loss
11long2023-03-14 00:00 @ 24,124.322023-04-17 12:00 @ 29,552.1934d 12h$513.89+21.69%signal
12long2023-05-29 00:00 @ 28,061.412023-05-31 12:00 @ 26,931.962d 12h−$104.54-4.19%stop loss
13long2023-06-21 00:00 @ 28,296.362023-07-07 00:00 @ 29,868.3316d$122.84+4.97%signal
14long2023-08-30 00:00 @ 27,705.642023-08-31 12:00 @ 26,668.821d 12h−$96.87-3.87%stop loss
15long2023-09-18 12:00 @ 27,190.042023-09-24 12:00 @ 26,210.056d−$92.06-3.72%stop loss
16long2023-10-02 00:00 @ 27,987.002023-10-11 00:00 @ 27,004.989d−$90.12-3.67%stop loss
17long2023-10-17 00:00 @ 28,492.002023-12-11 12:00 @ 42,338.1355d 12h$1,124.88+46.25%signal
18long2024-01-02 12:00 @ 45,495.902024-01-03 12:00 @ 43,329.521d−$134.54-4.96%stop loss
19long2024-01-09 00:00 @ 46,981.992024-01-10 12:00 @ 44,341.321d 12h−$154.79-5.78%stop loss
20long2024-02-08 00:00 @ 44,335.172024-03-17 00:00 @ 65,337.9338d$1,125.90+42.63%signal
21long2024-05-16 00:00 @ 66,188.642024-06-11 12:00 @ 66,906.2226d 12h$6.45+0.22%signal
22long2024-07-20 00:00 @ 66,641.232024-07-25 12:00 @ 64,069.785d 12h−$117.99-4.04%signal
23long2024-08-24 00:00 @ 64,032.802024-08-27 12:00 @ 60,075.593d 12h−$182.35-6.30%stop loss
24long2024-09-14 00:00 @ 60,468.292024-10-02 00:00 @ 60,764.5418d$4.12+0.14%signal
25long2024-10-14 12:00 @ 64,912.482024-10-23 12:00 @ 66,392.829d$54.21+1.90%signal
26long2024-10-29 00:00 @ 69,953.892024-11-03 12:00 @ 68,331.735d 12h−$74.15-2.59%signal
27long2024-11-06 12:00 @ 74,306.562024-11-26 00:00 @ 93,045.3919d 12h$684.35+24.06%signal
28long2024-12-05 12:00 @ 102,688.732024-12-05 12:00 @ 95,601.180m−$212.42-7.04%stop loss
29long2025-01-07 00:00 @ 102,200.942025-01-07 12:00 @ 97,741.4612h−$132.97-4.49%stop loss
30long2025-01-20 12:00 @ 108,289.252025-01-20 12:00 @ 100,543.920m−$212.65-7.26%stop loss
31long2025-03-20 00:00 @ 86,827.162025-03-29 00:00 @ 84,363.929d−$85.54-2.97%signal
32long2025-04-21 12:00 @ 86,953.892025-05-30 00:00 @ 105,518.7938d 12h$593.16+20.78%signal
33long2025-06-10 00:00 @ 110,250.052025-06-12 12:00 @ 106,251.642d 12h−$113.57-3.78%stop loss
34long2025-07-03 00:00 @ 108,821.762025-08-01 00:00 @ 115,674.1629d$161.45+5.43%signal
35long2025-08-11 12:00 @ 120,569.112025-08-18 00:00 @ 116,667.836d 12h−$105.02-3.48%stop loss
36long2025-09-11 00:00 @ 113,919.582025-09-22 12:00 @ 112,791.4411d 12h−$37.01-1.24%signal
37long2025-10-01 12:00 @ 116,760.152025-10-10 12:00 @ 113,158.849d−$101.18-3.40%stop loss
38long2026-01-05 12:00 @ 93,111.922026-01-08 00:00 @ 89,941.482d 12h−$104.96-3.55%stop loss
39long2026-01-14 00:00 @ 95,394.282026-01-19 12:00 @ 93,118.175d 12h−$74.45-2.54%signal
40long2026-04-08 00:00 @ 71,904.582026-04-28 12:00 @ 76,183.6620d 12h$176.59+6.07%signal
41long2026-07-07 00:00 @ 64,036.302026-07-28 12:00 @ 63,418.0121d 12h−$41.77-1.41%signal
42long2026-08-20 00:00 @ 69,323.962026-08-31 12:00 @ 78,533.8911d 12h$377.60+12.83%end of data

How this was run

Orders fill at the next bar’s open, never at the close that produced the signal. When one bar’s range covered both the stop and the target, the stop was taken, because the data cannot say which came first. Fees, slippage and funding are all charged.

Warmup history was loaded from before 2022-01-01 so the requested window is fully tradable.

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