20-Day Momentum + Trailing Stop on Charles Schwab
Buy after a +10% four-week burst and let a 10% trailing stop manage the exit. Deployed to your own Charles Schwab account — no code, your assets never leave the broker.
Setup on Charles Schwab
- Click Connect on the Brokerage page — you'll authorize DeployQuant on Schwab's own site with scoped trade & read permissions.
- Build or fork a strategy and backtest it on minute-resolution history.
- Deploy to Schwab with its own cash allocation, isolated in a sleeve.
- Confirm live trading explicitly before the first real order.
- Monitor every decision in the journal; pause anything with one switch.
The strategy
- WHEN the market opens · IF not invested AND the 20-day return > +10% · THEN buy with 98% of the sleeve
- WHILE invested · a managed trailing stop follows 10% below the position's high-water mark
Good for: high-momentum assets where trends extend — semiconductor and leveraged tech ETFs show the archetype.
Watch out: buying strength means buying high; when a burst immediately reverses, the trail exits about 10% below the entry.
Strongest backtests for this strategy
| ETF | CAGR | max DD | trades |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOXL | 23.9% | −67.3% | 134 |
| QLD | 21.7% | −20.1% | 20 |
| SPUU | 16.7% | −17.6% | 12 |
| SOXX | 15.2% | −30.2% | 18 |
| SSO | 14.8% | −24.2% | 13 |
| ROM | 12.2% | −36.2% | 32 |
| XLK | 12.1% | −26.1% | 9 |
| TECL | 11.0% | −48.5% | 62 |
Top-8 by CAGR shown of 59 tested — hindsight selection; see the full table including the losers.
Build it from blocks (or type it in English), backtest it on 5.5 years of minute data in seconds, tweak any parameter, then paper trade it on live data. No card, no broker needed to start.
Frequently asked questions
How do I automate momentum breakout on Charles Schwab?
Connect Charles Schwab to DeployQuant (trade & read permissions only), pick the 20-Day Momentum + Trailing Stop template or describe it in English, backtest it on your chosen ETF, allocate cash, and confirm live trading. The strategy then runs every session in its own sleeve inside your Charles Schwab account.
How does the trailing stop work when deployed live?
DeployQuant maintains it as a managed order: it ratchets up as the position makes new highs and triggers a market exit when price falls through it. It never widens.
Backtests are hypothetical, computed by DeployQuant's engine on minute-resolution consolidated US market data (2021-01-04 to 2026-07-17, $10,000 starting capital, no margin, fees and slippage not modeled) and do not guarantee future results. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Live trading involves risk of loss.