DeployQuantRSI(2) Dip Snapback on SQQQ
ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ: -3x daily Nasdaq-100: gains when tech falls, decays when it doesn't. Backtest 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02, $10,000 starting capital, computed by the same engine that runs live DeployQuant strategies.
Entry for the RSI(2) snapback comes at the next open after the 2-day RSI closes under 10, and exit at the open once it climbs back over 70. No other rule in the library trades as often. SQQQ is the ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ fund, built to deliver -3x of each day's Nasdaq-100 move. From 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02 the rule turned $10,000 into $5,554, a CAGR of -9.73% and a total return of -44.46%. Buy-and-hold on SQQQ ended at $424, a CAGR of -42.33%.
Closed round trips numbered 170, with 92 winners (54%). Winners averaged 4.8% and losers averaged -5.82%. The profit factor was 0.93, so gross profit was a little under gross loss. The average hold was 5.7 days and the rule was invested 47.3% of the time. It made 341 fills. The max drawdown was 79.45% against 96.08% for holding, and the Sharpe ratio was -0.05 against -0.63.
The rule beat holding in every one of the six years. By CAGR the rule is 2nd of 12 strategies on SQQQ, while SQQQ is 55th of 59 funds for this rule. Both can be true because the rule lost money and the fund lost far more. All of this is hypothetical, from a single 5.74-year stretch, and the headline run charged nothing for trades.
Year by year
| Year | RSI(2) snapback | buy & hold |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.2% | −61.3% |
| 2022 | 149.2% | 78.4% |
| 2023 | −53.2% | −71.5% |
| 2024 | −31.0% | −44.9% |
| 2025 | −7.2% | −43.5% |
| 2026 | −25.8% | −34.0% |
Year by year against holding
The rule returned 0.2% in 2021, 149.2% in 2022, -53.2% in 2023, -31% in 2024, -7.2% in 2025 and -25.8% in 2026 to date. Buy-and-hold on SQQQ returned -61.3%, 78.4%, -71.5%, -44.9%, -43.5% and -34%. The rule led by 61.5 points in 2021, 70.8 in 2022, 18.3 in 2023, 13.9 in 2024, 36.3 in 2025 and 8.2 in 2026.
2022 is the only year SQQQ rose, as the Nasdaq-100 fell. The rule gained 149.2% that year against 78.4% for holding. It made 32 round trips exiting in 2022, and 22 won. That is the most wins in any year. Large swings in both directions suit a dip-buying exit-on-bounce rule better than a steady grind lower. SQQQ had several of its biggest up days in 2022, so a pullback to an RSI(2) below 10 had room to bounce.
2023 is the year the rule lost most in percentage terms, at -53.2%, against -71.5% for holding. The Nasdaq-100 rose 54.81% that year. The rule had 29 round trips exiting in 2023, and 10 won. That is the worst win record of the six years. Each washout bought in a fund that keeps falling becomes another loser, and the strategy page lists exactly that caveat: a crash that keeps crashing produces several losing entries in a row.
2021 shows the other side. The rule returned 0.2% while SQQQ lost 61.3%. It had 29 round trips and 14 won. The result came from many small gains and losses that netted to about zero, and not from any one trade. In 2024, 2025 and 2026 the rule lost 31%, 7.2% and 25.8%, with win counts of 16 of 32, 14 of 25 and 16 of 23. The 2026 ratio of 16 wins in 23 trips was among the best of any year, and the year still lost, because the losses included the -31.05% trade. The 2026 row is a partial year.
Month by month
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4.1% | 1.5% | 27.7% | −11.0% | 15.0% | −6.5% | −7.5% | −5.3% | 10.5% | −11.7% | −4.5% | −5.0% |
| 2022 | 9.9% | 20.4% | −17.1% | 35.1% | 7.0% | 6.1% | −12.5% | 18.0% | 17.0% | 12.9% | −7.0% | 16.8% |
| 2023 | −10.6% | −7.0% | −15.6% | 1.6% | 1.3% | −12.4% | −4.6% | −6.7% | 15.8% | −2.2% | −17.3% | −11.1% |
| 2024 | −3.3% | 4.8% | 2.7% | 4.6% | −4.7% | −9.4% | −1.6% | −16.0% | −11.9% | 3.5% | −6.5% | 4.3% |
| 2025 | 12.1% | −0.6% | 6.1% | 11.6% | −17.8% | −5.3% | −3.5% | 2.9% | −3.8% | −1.2% | −5.9% | 1.5% |
| 2026 | 3.1% | 11.8% | 14.5% | −30.9% | −19.4% | 4.2% | 10.7% | −8.6% | −1.6% | −2.9% | – | – |
What the monthly table shows
Every month in the monthly table carries a return, so the rule held a position at some point in each one. April 2022 was the best month, at 35.15%. Buy-and-hold also had its best month in April 2022, at 43.86%. April 2026 was the worst month for the rule, at -30.85%; holding had its worst in July 2022, at -31.44%.
Other strong months were March 2021 at 27.68%, February 2022 at 20.37%, August 2022 at 18.04%, September 2022 at 16.97% and December 2022 at 16.76%. The bad months cluster in 2023 and 2024 and in the spring of 2026. May 2025 lost 17.75%, November 2023 lost 17.3%, March 2022 lost 17.1% and August 2024 lost 16%. March 2023 lost 15.64% and May 2026 lost 19.36%.
April 2026 stands out. The rule took the worst trade of the window that month, a 20-day hold from 2026-04-02 at 79 to 2026-04-22 at 54.47, which lost 31.05%. The next month, May 2026, lost 19.36% as well. Two bad months in a row took a large piece of the account. The rule had been up 11.8% in February 2026 and 14.53% in March 2026 before that, so the account gave back two months of gains in two months.
Gains and losses alternate by month more than they do in a trend rule. Large moves in both directions fill the monthly table, and the net over 5.74 years is a loss.
April and May 2026, and the calendar view
The worst stretch of the test came in April and May 2026, when the sleeve lost 30.85% and then 19.36%. April holds the 20-day loser from 2026-04-02. The month before was March 2026 at 14.53% and February at 11.8%, so the account had risen into the damage. June 2026 returned 4.18% and July 10.71%, which brought back part of it, but the drawdown trough of 2026-06-02 shows how deep the hole had become.
SQQQ's average return by calendar month was negative in nine months. May averaged -14.73% over 6 observations, November -12.78% over 5 and October -8.29% over 5. September was the best at 6.62%, followed by December at 2.26% and February at 1.33%. The rule lost 17.75% in May 2025 and 19.36% in May 2026, which matches the fund's weak May average. The sleeve gained 16.97% in September 2022 and 15.83% in September 2023, but lost 11.9% in September 2024, so the month did not hold up as a signal.
Monday averaged -0.53% and Wednesday -0.28% for the fund, with Tuesday, Thursday and Friday near -0.04%. With one fund, six years and only five or six observations per month, none of these averages was used to choose the rule's settings.
Every trade
RSI(2) snapback on SQQQ made 170 closed round trips and one position still open at the end of the test, an average hold of 6 days, an average winner of 4.80%, an average loser of −5.82%, a profit factor of 0.93, a longest losing streak of 7. It held a position at the close on 47.3% of trading days.
Best 10 round trips
| Entry | Entry price | Exit | Exit price | Return | Days held |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-02 | $178.49 | 2025-04-04 | $209.99 | 17.6% | 2 |
| 2022-06-08 | $914.49 | 2022-06-10 | $1054.95 | 15.4% | 2 |
| 2022-08-26 | $733.04 | 2022-08-29 | $840.83 | 14.7% | 3 |
| 2021-03-02 | $1285.31 | 2021-03-04 | $1468.23 | 14.2% | 2 |
| 2022-12-14 | $849.34 | 2022-12-16 | $966.04 | 13.7% | 2 |
| 2022-04-05 | $627.59 | 2022-04-07 | $707.90 | 12.8% | 2 |
| 2022-05-04 | $908.52 | 2022-05-09 | $1024.53 | 12.8% | 5 |
| 2021-05-10 | $1118.87 | 2021-05-11 | $1247.30 | 11.5% | 1 |
| 2022-04-20 | $731.47 | 2022-04-22 | $814.91 | 11.4% | 2 |
| 2022-02-10 | $736.95 | 2022-02-14 | $812.47 | 10.3% | 4 |
Worst 10 round trips
| Entry | Entry price | Exit | Exit price | Return | Days held |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-02 | $79.00 | 2026-04-22 | $54.47 | −31.1% | 20 |
| 2022-03-17 | $825.97 | 2022-04-01 | $654.53 | −20.8% | 15 |
| 2021-10-15 | $774.22 | 2021-11-10 | $630.97 | −18.5% | 26 |
| 2023-10-31 | $450.02 | 2023-11-10 | $373.03 | −17.1% | 10 |
| 2024-08-12 | $207.05 | 2024-08-23 | $173.25 | −16.3% | 11 |
| 2026-05-01 | $49.68 | 2026-05-13 | $41.66 | −16.1% | 12 |
| 2023-03-15 | $752.81 | 2023-03-29 | $637.85 | −15.3% | 14 |
| 2025-04-24 | $161.55 | 2025-05-07 | $137.21 | −15.1% | 13 |
| 2025-05-09 | $129.50 | 2025-05-21 | $110.03 | −15.0% | 12 |
| 2026-08-03 | $43.34 | 2026-08-07 | $37.27 | −14.0% | 4 |
Prices are adjusted for splits and dividends, so they sit below the quotes printed at the time. An open position is marked at the last close.
The trades
Of 171 trades in the list, 170 are closed and one is still open. That open position was entered on 2026-10-01 at 34.1381 and showed -2.95%. Prices are adjusted for splits and dividends. SQQQ has had reverse splits, so the adjusted prices in 2021 and 2022 are in the hundreds and thousands while the 2026 prices are in the tens. The percentage returns are the figures to read.
The five best trades each lasted 2 or 3 days.
- 2025-04-02 at 178.49 to 2025-04-04 at 209.99: 17.65% in 2 days.
- 2022-06-08 at 914.49 to 2022-06-10 at 1,054.95: 15.36% in 2 days.
- 2022-08-26 at 733.04 to 2022-08-29 at 840.83: 14.7% in 3 days.
- 2021-03-02 at 1,285.31 to 2021-03-04 at 1,468.23: 14.23% in 2 days.
- 2022-12-14 at 849.34 to 2022-12-16 at 966.04: 13.74% in 2 days.
The five worst trades lasted 10 to 26 days.
- 2026-04-02 at 79 to 2026-04-22 at 54.47: -31.05% in 20 days.
- 2022-03-17 at 825.97 to 2022-04-01 at 654.53: -20.76% in 15 days.
- 2021-10-15 at 774.22 to 2021-11-10 at 630.97: -18.5% in 26 days.
- 2023-10-31 at 450.02 to 2023-11-10 at 373.03: -17.11% in 10 days.
- 2024-08-12 at 207.05 to 2024-08-23 at 173.25: -16.32% in 11 days.
The pattern in these lists explains the profit factor of 0.93. Winners are quick, and the best ones close in two days when RSI(2) snaps back above 70. Losers are slow. The rule has no stop, so when the fund keeps falling after entry the rule stays in until RSI(2) recovers, and that can take weeks. The longest hold ran 26 days, and the median hold ran 4. The median trade returned 0.33%. The first trade, from 2021-01-11 at 1,445.73 to 2021-01-13 at 1,460.4, returned 1.01%.
Wins came in a run of at most 8, and losses in a run of at most 7. A seven-loss run on a 54% win-rate rule is the kind of streak the strategy page warns about, at an average loss of -5.82% each. The average win of 4.8% is smaller than the average loss, so a 54% win rate is not enough for a profit.
Why a 54% win rate still lost money
The rule won 92 of 170 closed trades, a win rate of 54%, and still finished at $5,554. The reason is the size of the average win and loss. Winners averaged 4.8% and losers averaged -5.82%, so the profit factor came to 0.93. The median trade returned 0.33% over 4 days, which means a typical trade was close to flat, while the average hold of 5.7 days was pulled up by a few long positions.
The tail was on the loss side. The best trade was 17.65%, from 2025-04-02 to 2025-04-04, and four more trades made between 13.74% and 15.36%, all held for 2 or 3 days. The worst trade lost 31.05%, from 2026-04-02 at an adjusted 79 to 2026-04-22 at 54.47, over 20 days. The next four losers ran from -20.76% to -16.32%, and each lasted 10 to 26 days. Every large winner came in a hold of three days or less and every large loser took more than a week, because the exit needs RSI(2) above 70 and a falling inverse fund does not give that reading quickly.
The longest win streak was 8 trades and the longest loss streak was 7. A run of 7 losers on a fund that moves 3.23% on an average up day removes a large part of the account before the next winners arrive.
Largest drawdowns
| Peak | Low point | Depth | Days to low | Recovered | Days to recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-03 | 2026-06-02 | −79.5% | 1246 | not yet | – |
| 2021-05-21 | 2021-11-19 | −33.1% | 182 | 2022-04-29 | 161 |
| 2022-06-16 | 2022-07-21 | −28.1% | 35 | 2022-09-30 | 71 |
Buy-and-hold's deepest drawdown ran from 2021-03-08 to 2026-10-02 and reached −96.1%.
The drawdowns
The deepest drawdown was 79.45%, from a peak on 2023-01-03 to a trough on 2026-06-02, 1,246 days later. No recovery had happened by the end of the window. The peak came after the 2022 gains, and the next three and a half years were a slow loss, with the sharp April and May 2026 trades near the end. The second drawdown was 33.11%, from 2021-05-21 to 2021-11-19, which recovered on 2022-04-29 after 161 days. The third was 28.07%, from 2022-06-16 to 2022-07-21, which recovered on 2022-09-30 after 71 days.
Buy-and-hold had a deepest drawdown of 96.08%, from 2021-03-08 to 2026-10-02, still open at the end. A second ran 25.23% from 2021-01-06 to 2021-02-12 and recovered on 2021-03-08. The rule's deepest drawdown was shallower by 16.63 points. The fund's own max drawdown was 97.93%.
The 2022 gains were the high point. After 2023-01-03 the account fell for more than three years. A mean-reversion rule looks good when the fund bounces and looks bad when the fund trends against it, and from 2023 onward SQQQ trended down with only small rallies. The Nasdaq-100 gained in each of the years from 2023 to 2026, and SQQQ lost in each.
With trading costs
The headline run fills at the bar price. These runs charge slippage on every fill.
| Slippage per fill | CAGR | Max drawdown | Final value | Sharpe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None (headline) | −9.7% | −79.5% | $5,554 | -0.05 |
| 5 basis points | −12.3% | −81.3% | $4,698 | -0.13 |
| 10 basis points | −14.9% | −83.1% | $3,972 | -0.20 |
Cost runs
The headline run charges no fees. Adding 5 basis points per fill gave a CAGR of -12.33%, a max drawdown of 81.33% and an end equity of $4,698. A run of 10 basis points gave -14.86%, 83.06% and $3,972. The Sharpe ratio fell from -0.05 to -0.125 and then to -0.197.
With 341 fills, every one paying the charge, costs bite here. The no-cost result of -9.73% became -12.33% at 5 basis points and -14.86% at 10, and end equity fell from $5,554 to $4,698 and then to $3,972. A rule with an average trade of about 0.33% at the median has little room for cost. SQQQ trades heavily, with an average daily dollar volume of $2,125,645,480, so an account of $10,000 would not move the market, though the cost runs apply a flat charge and the actual spread was not measured.
Changing the parameters
| Version | CAGR | Max drawdown | Round trips | Win rate | Final value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published rules | −9.7% | −79.5% | 170 | 54% | $5,554 |
| RSI(2) < 5 / > 70 | −9.8% | −77.6% | 166 | 54% | $5,542 |
| RSI(2) < 15 / > 70 | −7.1% | −78.9% | 177 | 55% | $6,567 |
| RSI(2) < 10 / > 60 | −3.5% | −71.4% | 178 | 56% | $8,161 |
| RSI(2) < 10 / > 80 | −9.9% | −79.7% | 158 | 55% | $5,490 |
Threshold variants
Four variants moved the entry or the exit threshold.
- Buy below 5, sell above 70: CAGR -9.77%, max drawdown 77.61%, end equity $5,542, with 166 trades and 90 wins.
- Buy below 15, sell above 70: CAGR -7.06%, max drawdown 78.87%, end equity $6,567, with 177 trades and 98 wins.
- Buy below 10, sell above 60: CAGR -3.48%, max drawdown 71.37%, end equity $8,161, with 178 trades and 100 wins.
- Buy below 10, sell above 80: CAGR -9.92%, max drawdown 79.74%, end equity $5,490, with 158 trades and 87 wins.
The base settings, entry under 10 and exit over 70, returned -9.73% with 170 trades and 92 wins. The entry threshold moved the result less than the exit did: buying below 5 gave -9.77% and buying below 15 gave -7.06%. The exit mattered more. An exit above 60 gave the best result at -3.48%, with the shallowest drawdown at 71.37% and the highest Sharpe ratio of the variants, at 0.106. Selling above 80 gave the worst at -9.92%.
An earlier exit worked better on SQQQ, which fits a fund whose rallies were short. Selling above 60 leaves sooner, and selling above 80 waits longer for a reading that a falling fund seldom gave. All four variants finished negative, so the thresholds did not flip the sign of the result.
How SQQQ behaved
| Measure | SQQQ |
|---|---|
| Data in this test | 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02 (1444 sessions) |
| Total return, buy and hold | −97.9% |
| Annualized volatility | 67.2% |
| Deepest drawdown | −97.9% (2021-03-08 to 2026-10-02) |
| Up days | 45.2% |
| Average daily range | 4.75% |
| Average overnight gap | 1.78% |
| Correlation to SPY | -0.94 |
| Correlation to QQQ | -1.00 |
| Correlation to TLT | -0.09 |
| Sessions above the 200-day average | 16.8% |
| Crossings of the 200-day average | 26 |
| Falls of 10% or more from a 20-day high | 85 |
How SQQQ behaved
The fund aims at -3x the Nasdaq-100's daily move, and its realized beta to QQQ came out at -3. Over the window QQQ returned 151.07% and SQQQ returned -97.86%. A simple -3x multiple of the QQQ return would be -453.22%, which a fund cannot deliver. The daily rebalanced ideal was -98.9%, close to the fund's own result. The decay gap against the simple multiple was 355.35 points. The fund's CAGR was -48.82% and its max drawdown was 97.93%, with no recovery by 2026-10-02.
Volatility is high: 67.16% annualized, with an average intraday range of 4.75%. SQQQ rose on 45.18% of sessions, averaging 3.23% on up days and -3.02% on down days. The best day was +18.42% on 2025-04-04 and the worst was -35.41% on 2025-04-09. The 2025-04-02 trade, the best of the window, captured the run into 2025-04-04. The worst day came five days later.
The signal itself deserves a measurement. RSI(2) closed below 10 on 245 sessions. Five days later the median return was -1.78%, compared with -1.8% from any session. The median 20-day return was -6.54%, against a baseline of -5.73%. A washout reading did not lift the typical forward return on SQQQ. The rule's winning trades came from short bounces, and the readings did not predict a rebound on average. Only 16.79% of closes sat above the 200-day average, which fits a long decline.
How SQQQ compares with other inverse funds
Among the 11 inverse funds, SQQQ's result of -9.73% is eighth. TBF returned 9.67% with a drawdown of 7.67%. PSQ returned 0.13%, SH returned -0.53% and SPDN returned -1.45%. QID returned -1.85%, SDS returned -3.58% and EEV returned -5.9%. Behind SQQQ came REW at -10.95%, TECS at -26.6% and SOXS at -29.89%.
Across the inverse group the median was -3.58%, and the median for all 59 funds was 4.74%. Every inverse fund made 162 to 172 round trips, so the trade count did not separate them. The funds with deeper drawdowns lost more.
On SQQQ the rule was the second best of 12. The golden cross was the best at -7.41%, with a drawdown of 51.51%. The 200-day regime filter returned -10.51%, the trend with a trailing stop -12.06% and the momentum breakout -15.97%. The SMA 10/50 trend returned -21.12%, RSI mean reversion -23.58%, the EMA 12/26 trend -24.32% and the 3-month momentum -25.78%. The weekly 7% target returned -29.33%, the dip buyer -39.18% and the monthly cycle -44.62%.
The rules
Buy extreme 2-day RSI washouts under 10, exit as soon as RSI(2) recovers above 70.
- WHEN the market opens · IF not invested AND RSI(2) < 10 · THEN buy with 98% of the sleeve
- WHEN the market opens · IF invested AND RSI(2) > 70 · THEN sell the whole position
A short-horizon mean-reversion template popularized by Larry Connors' RSI-2 research. A 2-period RSI under 10 flags a sharp multi-day selloff. In assets with a persistent upward drift, those selloffs have tended to snap back within days. Trades are frequent and short. This is the highest-turnover template in the library.
Good for: liquid index ETFs with strong long-term drift; turnover is high so per-trade edges are small.
Watch out: high trade counts make results sensitive to execution quality; a crash that keeps crashing will hand this template several losing entries in a row.
How the thresholds work on this fund
The rule asks for two things at the open: a 2-day RSI under 10 to buy and above 70 to sell. The strategy page says the template was built for liquid index ETFs with strong long-term drift, where selloffs have tended to snap back within days. SQQQ has the opposite drift. It fell in five of the six years, so the selloffs the rule bought were often the start of the next leg.
Even so, the rule beat holding in every year. Time spent in cash explains it. It was invested 47.3% of the time, with an average hold of 5.7 days, and it exited quickly when RSI recovered. A fund that lost 95.76% over the window had large numbers of days when holding lost money, and the rule skipped many of them. The result is a loss that is smaller than holding, not a profit.
The test covers one fund and one rule over 5.74 years, using a leveraged fund with reverse splits. Nothing was tuned to SQQQ. The figures are hypothetical and say nothing about the future.
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Frequently asked questions
Did RSI(2) snapback beat buy-and-hold on SQQQ?
Over 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02, RSI(2) snapback on SQQQ returned −9.7% annualized vs −42.3% for buy-and-hold: it beat buy-and-hold by 32.6% per year, with a maximum drawdown 16.6 points shallower than holding (79.5% vs 96.1%).
How many trades did it make?
170 completed round trips over 5.7 years (341 fills), with 54% of round trips closing profitably.
How often does RSI(2) trade?
Far more than RSI(14), with dozens of round trips per year on a volatile ETF. The backtest table on each page shows the exact count over the test window.
Is RSI(2) too fast for daily bars?
It is designed for daily bars. The 2-day window catches short, sharp washouts rather than long regimes.
How did the RSI(2) snapback do on SQQQ?
Over 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02 the CAGR was -9.73%, and $10,000 became $5,554. The max drawdown was 79.45% and the Sharpe ratio was -0.05. It made 170 closed round trips and 92 won.
Did the rule beat buy-and-hold on SQQQ?
Yes, in every year. Buy-and-hold ended at $424 with a CAGR of -42.33% and a max drawdown of 96.08%. The rule's CAGR gap was 32.6 points and it still lost money.
Why were the SQQQ prices in the trade list so high in 2021 and 2022?
SQQQ has had reverse splits, and the prices are adjusted for them and for dividends. Some 2021 entries sit above 1,285 while the 2026 entries are in the tens. The percentage returns are comparable across years.
Which exit setting worked best?
Selling above 60 gave a CAGR of -3.48% and an end equity of $8,161, the best of the four variants. Selling above 80 gave -9.92%. The entry thresholds of 5 and 15 changed the result less.
What do trading costs do to this rule on SQQQ?
Charging 5 basis points took the CAGR from -9.73% to -12.33%, and 10 basis points took it to -14.86%. The rule made 341 fills. End equity fell from $5,554 to $4,698 and then to $3,972.
Does an RSI(2) under 10 predict a bounce on SQQQ?
Not on average here. Across 245 sessions with RSI(2) under 10, the 5-day median was -1.78%, versus -1.8% for every session. The 20-day median was -6.54%, against -5.73%.
Related
Backtests are hypothetical, computed by DeployQuant's engine on minute-resolution consolidated US market data (2021-01-04 to 2026-10-02, $10,000 starting capital, no margin, no fees or slippage in the headline run; buy-and-hold puts 98% of the account in at the first open, as the templates do) and do not guarantee future results. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Live trading involves risk of loss.