RSI 50-Line Momentum (14)
Positive risk-adjusted return in 13 of 18 cells — strongest on SPX500 · 4H (Sharpe 1.11); 5 cells lose after the 0.05% per-side fee. Beats buy-and-hold by 36.8pp on average.
§ Verdict rationale
Composite Sharpe 0.35 across 18 cells. The edge concentrates in SPX500 4H (Sharpe 1.11); 5 of 18 cells are negative after the 0.05% per-side fee. Trails buy-and-hold on average. The account is wiped out entirely in 2 of 18 cells — the fee drag alone, before any question of signal quality.
§ Alpha score breakdown
alpha = edge (0-40: clamp(compositeSharpe/2,0,1)*40) + stability (0-25: positiveCells/18*25) + flaw penalty (0 to -25: static findings, 0 across v1 catalog) + reproduction (0-10: engine oracle parity vs pine2py, 251/257 scripts = 9)
§ Equity vs buy-and-hold — fee-adjusted, per cell
§ All 18 cells — including the ugly ones
| Market · TF | Sharpe | Return | vs B&H | Max DD | Win | Trades |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTCUSD 1H | -2.25 | -100.0% | -1509.0pp | -100.0% | 22% | 4552 |
| BTCUSD 4H | 0.19 | -1.3% | -1396.0pp | -94.8% | 23% | 972 |
| BTCUSD 1D | 0.91 | +3310.8% | +1907.7pp | -69.1% | 27% | 150 |
| ETHUSD 1H | -2.41 | -100.0% | -635.8pp | -100.0% | 22% | 4569 |
| ETHUSD 4H | 0.04 | -80.3% | -602.9pp | -99.2% | 24% | 995 |
| ETHUSD 1D | 0.88 | +5844.7% | +5313.6pp | -56.3% | 26% | 150 |
| SPX500 1H | 0.19 | +4.3% | -68.3pp | -20.2% | 32% | 245 |
| SPX500 4H | 1.11 | +32.6% | -40.1pp | -14.1% | 43% | 76 |
| SPX500 1D | 0.35 | +61.8% | -527.6pp | -24.9% | 37% | 221 |
| QQQ 1H | 0.40 | +14.4% | -78.6pp | -19.1% | 32% | 238 |
| QQQ 4H | 1.07 | +46.6% | -46.1pp | -16.4% | 42% | 85 |
| QQQ 1D | 0.64 | +229.3% | -1204.3pp | -30.9% | 37% | 230 |
| GOLD 1H | 0.80 | +39.9% | -83.3pp | -26.5% | 34% | 201 |
| GOLD 4H | 0.78 | +39.5% | -83.6pp | -30.5% | 28% | 75 |
| GOLD 1D | 0.36 | +81.2% | -138.9pp | -31.5% | 33% | 219 |
| EURUSD 1H | -8.83 | -93.9% | -103.0pp | -94.0% | 23% | 939 |
| EURUSD 4H | -1.58 | -23.8% | -32.1pp | -27.2% | 24% | 238 |
| EURUSD 1D | -0.34 | -26.8% | -8.9pp | -31.4% | 41% | 244 |
13 of 18 cells positive · best SPX500 · 4H · cells are not equal length — the composite is a median
§ The exact source that ran — Pine v5
//@version=5strategy("RSI 50-Line Momentum (14)", initial_capital=100000, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100)r = ta.rsi(close, 14)longSig = ta.crossover(r, 50)exitSig = ta.crossunder(r, 50)if longSig strategy.entry("L", strategy.long)if exitSig strategy.close("L")plot(strategy.equity, "equity")plot(strategy.position_size, "pos")plot(strategy.closedtrades, "closed")plot(strategy.wintrades, "wins")plot(strategy.grossprofit, "gp")plot(strategy.grossloss, "gl")This source was executed verbatim by the wavealgo JS engine — there is no port step to drift. The engine is oracle-verified bar-by-bar (1e-9 tolerance) against an independent Python implementation on 251/257 corpus scripts.
§ Flaw checklist
Verdict rules: pass: composite Sharpe >= 0.9 and >= 12/18 cells positive · cond: composite Sharpe > 0 and best cell Sharpe >= 0.9 · fail: otherwise · rep: static repaint/look-ahead finding (none in the authored v1 catalog: confirmed-bar signals, next-bar-open fills)
§ What the numbers mean
- Sharpe ratio
- Risk-adjusted return: mean daily return divided by its standard deviation, annualized ×√252. The composite figure is the mean of the 18 cell Sharpes — one bad market drags it honestly.
- Max drawdown
- The worst peak-to-trough equity loss over the window, measured on the fee-adjusted curve. What you would have sat through, not what you would have ended with.
- Profit factor (PF)
- Gross profit divided by gross loss, with fees charged to the loss side. Above 1.0 means gross gains exceeded gross losses; 1.0–1.2 is usually noise.
- Win rate
- Share of closed trades that closed profitable. A high win rate with a profit factor near 1 means many small wins and a few large losses — common in mean-reversion.
- vs buy-and-hold
- Strategy total return minus the return of simply holding the asset over the same window — the benchmark any active strategy must beat to justify existing.
- Alpha score
- The desk’s 0–100 composite: out-of-sample edge (0–40), regime stability across cells (0–25), flaw penalty (0 to −25), reproduction accuracy (0–10). The exact formula ships with the data.
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Engine: pine2js (next-bar-open fills, TV rule) · scored UTC 2026-08-08 04:53 · deterministic rerun — same data, same numbers. Backtested results are measurements of the past, not investment advice; nothing here is a recommendation to trade. wavealgo is operated by Streamize LLC.