Weekly Entry + 7% Target
Buy at the first open of each week, rest a +7% profit target, and cut the trade Thursday afternoon if it's losing.
The rules
- WHEN the first session of the week opens · IF not invested · THEN buy with 98% of the sleeve (once per week)
- WHILE invested · a managed limit order rests at entry price × 1.07
- WHEN it's 2:00pm on the week's second-to-last session · IF the position is losing · THEN sell everything
A rhythm-based swing template: enter Monday, aim for +7%, and refuse to carry a loser into the weekend. The profit target rests at the broker as a real limit order the whole time (DeployQuant maintains it as a managed order), and the Thursday-afternoon exit gives losing trades a hard deadline instead of a hard price.
Good for: volatile assets that regularly swing 7% within a week — leveraged ETFs are the natural habitat.
Watch out: the time-based exit realizes many small losses by design; the wager is that the +7% winners outnumber them, which the per-ETF results test directly.
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Results on every ETF
| ETF | CAGR | buy & hold | max DD | Sharpe | trades | win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TECL | 34.9% | 31.9% | −45.0% | 0.85 | 242 | 53% |
| SOXL | 32.9% | 30.2% | −71.4% | 0.77 | 272 | 60% |
| SOXX | 30.3% | 29.6% | −22.8% | 1.03 | 168 | 39% |
| QLD | 25.2% | 21.6% | −44.5% | 0.82 | 185 | 43% |
| FAS | 22.5% | 22.9% | −47.8% | 0.71 | 208 | 46% |
| SSO | 21.5% | 21.5% | −28.5% | 0.88 | 143 | 38% |
| TQQQ | 21.3% | 22.3% | −54.2% | 0.66 | 217 | 49% |
| ROM | 20.5% | 26.1% | −48.0% | 0.66 | 114 | 59% |
| SPUU | 19.6% | 22.0% | −57.9% | 0.77 | 54 | 67% |
| XLK | 18.8% | 20.2% | −18.2% | 0.92 | 121 | 35% |
| CLSE | 18.5% | 20.1% | −13.1% | 1.37 | 19 | 79% |
| QQQM | 17.5% | 15.8% | −19.2% | 0.94 | 101 | 32% |
| QQQ | 16.2% | 15.8% | −19.4% | 0.89 | 103 | 31% |
| VOOG | 16.0% | 14.9% | −30.9% | 0.90 | 72 | 42% |
| IOO | 15.7% | 16.4% | −23.5% | 1.02 | 50 | 44% |
| IAU | 14.5% | 13.6% | −27.6% | 0.96 | 95 | 27% |
| VV | 14.1% | 13.9% | −21.6% | 0.98 | 69 | 35% |
| SPY | 14.0% | 14.4% | −24.4% | 1.01 | 80 | 30% |
| VOO | 13.9% | 14.3% | −24.1% | 1.00 | 80 | 30% |
| VOOV | 12.6% | 13.2% | −17.4% | 0.98 | 43 | 40% |
| XLY | 12.5% | 7.3% | −24.7% | 0.69 | 121 | 31% |
| QQQE | 11.6% | 9.4% | −28.9% | 0.71 | 51 | 45% |
| VTV | 11.6% | 13.9% | −20.4% | 0.94 | 67 | 28% |
| CTA | 11.2% | 7.2% | −19.6% | 0.74 | 40 | 38% |
| EEM | 11.0% | 5.6% | −27.4% | 0.69 | 98 | 26% |
| TBF | 8.7% | 11.0% | −18.6% | 0.67 | 65 | 29% |
| XLF | 8.7% | 14.1% | −31.6% | 0.59 | 98 | 26% |
| IWM | 8.1% | 8.5% | −26.2% | 0.51 | 138 | 25% |
| ALTY | 8.0% | 8.7% | −17.9% | 0.82 | 14 | 64% |
| USDU | 6.1% | 5.1% | −9.5% | 0.92 | 19 | 32% |
| RINF | 6.1% | 6.6% | −13.4% | 0.56 | 15 | 47% |
| VOX | 5.5% | 9.2% | −42.6% | 0.39 | 75 | 32% |
| QAI | 4.3% | 3.9% | −15.6% | 0.71 | 17 | 35% |
| SGOV | 3.2% | 3.2% | −0.0% | 13.32 | 3 | 67% |
| XLP | 2.9% | 7.0% | −23.8% | 0.31 | 79 | 19% |
| IGIB | 0.3% | 0.9% | −18.4% | 0.08 | 43 | 9% |
| AGG | 0.1% | −0.3% | −16.0% | 0.04 | 58 | 7% |
| IEI | −0.1% | 0.0% | −12.2% | -0.00 | 53 | 6% |
| BND | −0.1% | −0.3% | −15.8% | 0.00 | 64 | 6% |
| FXE | −0.3% | −0.7% | −21.3% | 0.00 | 19 | 26% |
| UDN | −0.7% | −1.0% | −21.3% | -0.05 | 14 | 21% |
| IEF | −1.0% | −1.6% | −18.2% | -0.11 | 63 | 8% |
| TLT | −3.2% | −7.3% | −31.1% | -0.18 | 101 | 13% |
| KMLM | −6.3% | 6.0% | −53.3% | -0.11 | 2 | 100% |
| PSQ | −8.0% | −13.2% | −51.5% | -0.34 | 148 | 18% |
| UST | −8.1% | −7.3% | −44.5% | -0.52 | 11 | 27% |
| VIXM | −9.0% | −14.9% | −60.6% | -0.25 | 57 | 40% |
| SPDN | −9.7% | −9.7% | −45.0% | -0.59 | 97 | 12% |
| SH | −10.1% | −9.9% | −46.7% | -0.66 | 128 | 9% |
| TMF | −10.5% | −30.7% | −63.8% | -0.14 | 203 | 33% |
| VXZ | −12.9% | −13.9% | −64.3% | -0.39 | 22 | 59% |
| EEV | −14.8% | −14.5% | −81.8% | -0.24 | 28 | 57% |
| SDS | −17.3% | −22.1% | −75.6% | -0.56 | 188 | 22% |
| QID | −26.6% | −28.9% | −86.6% | -0.65 | 215 | 27% |
| SOXS | −28.6% | −30.5% | −93.2% | -0.67 | 123 | 47% |
| SQQQ | −28.9% | −30.9% | −92.4% | -0.47 | 250 | 38% |
| TECS | −34.9% | −21.8% | −94.1% | -0.71 | 234 | 42% |
| UVXY | −34.9% | −38.0% | −96.6% | -0.52 | 251 | 46% |
| REW | −37.8% | −33.6% | −94.4% | -0.77 | 44 | 59% |
Frequently asked questions
What is the weekly 7% target strategy?
Buy at the first open of each week, rest a +7% profit target, and cut the trade Thursday afternoon if it's losing. A rhythm-based swing template: enter Monday, aim for +7%, and refuse to carry a loser into the weekend. The profit target rests at the broker as a real limit order the whole time (DeployQuant maintains it as a managed order), and the Thursday-afternoon exit gives losing trades a hard deadline instead of a hard price.
Does weekly 7% target beat buy-and-hold?
Across 59 ETFs backtested 2021-01-04–2026-07-17, it beat same-ETF buy-and-hold on 30 of 59 (51%). Median CAGR was 6.1% with a median max drawdown of 27.6%. Per-ETF results vary widely — see the table.
Why exit on Thursday?
It's a deadline, not a signal: the template refuses to hold a losing trade over the weekend gap. On holiday-shortened weeks DeployQuant's calendar logic shifts the exit to the week's second-to-last session automatically.
Does the 7% target rest at the broker?
Yes — deployed live, the target is a real GTC limit order DeployQuant places and maintains, not a price alert checked after the fact.
Compare with other strategies
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.