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Canoe EIT Income Fund backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of Canoe EIT Income Fund. 8 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; Donchian 채널 돌파 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is 볼린저 밴드 돌파 (CAGR 0.1%, MDD -9.2%).

Data 2003-10-09 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 5,728 (22.8 years)Costs 0.5%Venue TSXMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

8 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR -0.7%, drawdown -80.4%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): Donchian 채널 돌파 — CAGR 2.0%, MDD -14.0%, Sharpe 0.40, 24% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: 볼린저 밴드 돌파 — CAGR is 2.8%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 66.3%p (CAGR 0.1%, MDD -9.2%, exposure 4%).

The alternative must retain 75% of buy-and-hold CAGR, improve drawdown by at least 20% and 5 percentage points, and stay below 95% exposure; the ranking weights return retention 60% and drawdown improvement 40%.

Strategy · parametersCAGRMDDSharpeCalmarTotalTradesExposure
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=190, exitN=35
2.0%-14.0%0.400.151.6x2324%
ROC 모멘텀
n=169, threshold=0.19
0.6%-12.5%0.190.051.1x468%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=57, slow=212
1.3%-47.9%0.180.031.3x2749%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=22, slow=58
1.2%-31.3%0.180.041.3x7758%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=40, k=3.2
0.1%-9.2%0.070.011.0x124%
Supertrend
period=28, mult=3.6
-0.0%-53.5%0.05-0.001.0x12365%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=68, atrPeriod=17, mult=1.7
0.0%-34.1%0.040.001.0x10945%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.01, maxStep=0.24
-1.8%-52.1%-0.11-0.030.7x27758%
MACD
fast=12, slow=55, signal=30
-2.8%-60.4%-0.21-0.050.5x22951%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=38, threshold=26
-0.5%-16.5%-0.27-0.030.9x123%
Buy and hold-0.7%-80.4%0.06-0.010.8x1100%
1x 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022 2025 Donchian 채널 돌파Buy and hold
Donchian 채널 돌파: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -20% -40% -60% -80% 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022 2025 Buy and holdDonchian 채널 돌파
Donchian 채널 돌파 maximum drawdown -14.0% (2021-11-18 → 2022-01-24), recovered after 1,644 days.

Rules of the top strategy

A new high means a trend starting; a new low means it’s over (turtle-trading style).

Method and caveats

Past performance does not guarantee future returns. Parameters were selected on the same full-history sample using sharpe over 40 trials per strategy, so results contain in-sample bias. 0.5% trading costs are included; taxes, slippage and rejected orders are not.
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