Textbook parameters, deliberately untuned
Backtest
Pick a stock, crypto, commodity or futures contract, a date and an amount. This shows what that money would be worth today, using the actual price history — nothing here is a prediction about what happens next.
Want to test the screener itself, not one stock? Backtest buying the healthiest companies.
CL=F has no price history back to your chosen date — this starts from instead, the earliest price available for it.
This tracks the front-month futures price, stitched across contracts as each one expires. Nobody can actually buy and hold that — a real position has to be rolled into the next contract again and again, and the cost of doing so is not modelled here. Read it as how the price moved, not as what a holder would have made.
WTI Crude Oil
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- Would be worth
- $19.9K
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Starting from $10.0K. - Total return
- +99.0%
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Change in value over the whole period. - Yearly average
- +9.4%
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Annualised — the steady yearly rate that would produce the same result.
Dividends, if any, were reinvested into more shares rather than paid out as cash.
Value over time
Starting from $10.0K
WTI Crude Oil over different holding periods
The same $10.0K, invested that long ago and held until today
| Held for | Would be worth | Total return | Yearly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yearbest annualised | $14.9K | +48.7% | +48.8% |
| 3 years | $10.6K | +6.1% | +2.0% |
| 5 years | $13.4K | +33.6% | +6.0% |
| 10 years | $19.4K | +94.5% | +6.9% |
Each row is the same lump sum invested that far back and held to today — not a strategy, just a different starting date. A row marked “from … only” is shorter than its label because the price history does not reach back that far.
Want to see this against the market, or against anything else? Compare CL=F with SPY — that page charts any set of symbols side by side, which is the job it does properly.
Free with an account
Trading strategies
Run mean reversion, RSI dip buying, the golden cross, a 200-day trend rule and an intraday opening-range breakout over the same stock — each against simply buying and holding it.
Four things need a free account: the screener backtest, the trade journal, the trading strategies, and the moving averages drawn over a result. Everything else works signed out — company pages, the screener, comparisons, charts, crypto and commodities, and working out what an investment would have been worth.
Educational only, not investment advice. This uses real historical prices and, where available, real dividend payments — but it assumes a lump sum invested on one day and held without ever selling, which is rarely how anyone actually invests. No fees, spreads or taxes are modelled, and no correction is made for surviving to be listed today — a company that failed along the way would not appear here to be picked at all.