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iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF. 6 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; ROC 모멘텀 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is ADX / DI 방향성 (CAGR -0.1%, MDD -0.6%).

Data 2017-10-26 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 2,201 (8.8 years)Costs 0.5%Venue ARCXMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

6 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR -1.5%, drawdown -23.8%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): ROC 모멘텀 — CAGR 0.1%, MDD -1.7%, Sharpe 0.14, 0% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: ADX / DI 방향성 — CAGR is 1.6%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 22.1%p (CAGR -0.1%, MDD -0.6%, exposure 0%).

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
ROC 모멘텀
n=50, threshold=0.12
0.1%-1.7%0.140.051.0x40%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=21, slow=201
-0.0%-5.9%0.01-0.001.0x851%
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=60, exitN=78
-0.4%-8.8%-0.07-0.041.0x1254%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=19, k=2.9
-0.2%-4.8%-0.18-0.041.0x63%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=34, atrPeriod=28, mult=3.6
-0.3%-3.2%-0.28-0.081.0x64%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=35, slow=176
-1.5%-15.9%-0.37-0.100.9x1653%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=38, threshold=25
-0.1%-0.6%-0.41-0.111.0x20%
Supertrend
period=23, mult=4.8
-3.0%-24.9%-0.71-0.120.8x3649%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.005, maxStep=0.16
-5.9%-41.1%-1.13-0.140.6x7854%
MACD
fast=17, slow=30, signal=16
-6.2%-43.1%-1.17-0.140.6x11648%
Buy and hold-1.5%-23.8%-0.14-0.060.9x1100%
1x 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 ROC 모멘텀Buy and hold
ROC 모멘텀: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -6% -12% -18% -24% 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Buy and holdROC 모멘텀
ROC 모멘텀 maximum drawdown -1.7% (2020-06-08 → 2020-06-18), prior peak not yet recovered.

Rules of the top strategy

Rides the trend when recent return (momentum) over a window is above a threshold.

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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