Buy and Hold
Purchasing an asset and holding it through everything — the zero-effort, zero-signal baseline. It captures the full return and the full drawdown. Its virtues (no costs, no decisions, no whipsaws) make it a surprisingly hard benchmark; a systematic strategy earns its complexity only by improving on it in return, risk, or both.
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Related terms
BenchmarkThe passive alternative a strategy must beat to justify its existence …DrawdownThe percentage decline from a portfolio's (or asset's) peak value to a…
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.