Strategy Report: Turtle Strategy

| Strategy Description

The Turtle Trading strategy is a famous trend-following approach developed by legendary commodity traders Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt in the early 1980s. The strategy involves buying a stock or contract during a breakout (when prices move above a trading range) and quickly selling on a retracement or price fall. The strategy is traded on the top 10 markets in the Russell 1000 index by market cap that meet a profit factor > 2 over the last 5 and 10 years rebalance yearly.

Key StatisticsBacktestLiveBacktestLive
Runtime Days3606{{$KPI-DAYS-LIVE}} Drawdown16.1%{{$KPI-LIVE-DRAWDOWN}}
Turnover1%{{$KPI-LIVE-TURNOVER}} Probabilistic SR25%{{$KPI-LIVE-PSR}}
CAGR11.8%{{$KPI-LIVE-CAGR}} Sharpe Ratio0.6{{$KPI-LIVE-SHARPE}}
Capacity (USD)3.7B Sortino Ratio0.6{{$KPI-LIVE-SORTINO}}
Trades per Day0.0{{$KPI-LIVE-TRADES-PER-DAY}} Information Ratio-0.1{{$KPI-LIVE-INFORMATION-RATIO}}
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Market Sell-Off 2015
New Normal 2014-2019
COVID-19 Pandemic 2020
Post-COVID Run-up 2020-2021
Meme Season 2021
Russia Invades Ukraine 2022-2023
AI Boom 2022-Present
Strategy Report Summary: Turtle Strategy
Parameters
entry_length 20 exit_length 10
risk_percentage 2.5 symbols NVDA
market_type equity