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China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Class A backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Class A. 7 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; Donchian 채널 돌파 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is ADX / DI 방향성 (CAGR 2.1%, MDD -17.1%).

Data 2007-01-09 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 4,755 (19.6 years)Costs 0.5%Venue SSEMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

7 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR 0.1%, drawdown -82.8%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): Donchian 채널 돌파 — CAGR 5.6%, MDD -54.4%, Sharpe 0.35, 48% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: ADX / DI 방향성 — CAGR is 5.6%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 28.4%p (CAGR 2.1%, MDD -17.1%, exposure 1%).

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=71, exitN=66
5.6%-54.4%0.350.102.9x3148%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=28, k=3.2
4.0%-24.3%0.340.162.2x288%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=59, slow=149
4.9%-53.8%0.320.092.6x3047%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=52, atrPeriod=8, mult=3.1
4.2%-44.9%0.320.092.3x4018%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=38, threshold=38
2.1%-17.1%0.310.121.5x21%
ROC 모멘텀
n=94, threshold=-0.02
2.9%-72.7%0.240.041.7x19052%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=48, slow=77
2.8%-69.6%0.240.041.7x4447%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.02, maxStep=0.02
-0.8%-71.7%0.10-0.010.9x12344%
MACD
fast=16, slow=38, signal=14
-1.0%-66.3%0.09-0.020.8x24150%
Supertrend
period=19, mult=2.9
-1.4%-67.5%0.08-0.020.8x12746%
Buy and hold0.1%-82.8%0.190.001.0x1100%
1x 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 Donchian 채널 돌파Buy and hold
Donchian 채널 돌파: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -21% -41% -62% -83% 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 Buy and holdDonchian 채널 돌파
Donchian 채널 돌파 maximum drawdown -54.4% (2007-10-29 → 2014-08-26), recovered after 2,618 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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