If backtest on high timeframe and large duration is too good to be true
Then backtest last few months on large and 1min timeframe.
If results are pretty similar then paper test.
If even that looks then real trading.
If you are holding the currency that you are trading and you only use a small portion of it for trading while the rest increases in price, of course the gains from trading can be “only” around 85% over the last 3 years, while the value of the currency that you were HODLing was increasing even more. In downtrends it’s likely to be the opposite. Could it be that this is a “short” spot bot that uses an USDT pair?
this is a DOGE/USD long. buy and hold return is about 150$
reinvesting is 100%, without reinvesting 480% return, screenshot here
Ok, that’s indeed somehow surprising where those numbers come from. Especially because the graph suggests that several deals were closed at a loss.
Would you mind sharing the configuration? Do you use unlimited (aka -1) deals?
https://app.gainium.io/bot/backtests?a=12176&aid=share-backtest&backtestShare=e86985b6-32ea-4c60-8a15-cf1d9678704a
this is the configuration of the screenshot, but i have also make a few improvements that rise the net to 1200%