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Gladstone Investment Corporation - Business Development Company backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of Gladstone Investment Corporation - Business Development Company. 3 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; Keltner 채널 돌파 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is Keltner 채널 돌파 (CAGR 1.3%, MDD -21.2%).

Data 2005-06-23 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 5,309 (21.1 years)Costs 0.5%Venue XNASMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

3 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR 0.3%, drawdown -85.0%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): Keltner 채널 돌파 — CAGR 1.3%, MDD -21.2%, Sharpe 0.21, 10% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: Keltner 채널 돌파 — CAGR is 0.9%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 63.8%p (CAGR 1.3%, MDD -21.2%, exposure 10%).

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
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=34, atrPeriod=14, mult=3.4
1.3%-21.2%0.210.061.3x3210%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=54, slow=113
1.0%-45.0%0.150.021.2x5348%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=39, k=3.2
0.7%-27.9%0.140.021.2x125%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=36, slow=139
-0.4%-48.6%0.07-0.010.9x5351%
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=81, exitN=52
-0.5%-50.1%0.06-0.010.9x3943%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.005, maxStep=0.12
-4.1%-82.4%-0.04-0.050.4x16352%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=19, threshold=38
-0.2%-13.3%-0.06-0.021.0x122%
MACD
fast=21, slow=51, signal=19
-5.3%-80.0%-0.07-0.070.3x21950%
Supertrend
period=22, mult=2.7
-6.3%-78.5%-0.08-0.080.3x15353%
ROC 모멘텀
n=17, threshold=0.12
-5.0%-69.0%-0.29-0.070.3x1304%
Buy and hold0.3%-85.0%0.210.001.1x1100%
1x 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018 2021 2024 Keltner 채널 돌파Buy and hold
Keltner 채널 돌파: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -21% -43% -64% -85% 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018 2021 2024 Buy and holdKeltner 채널 돌파
Keltner 채널 돌파 maximum drawdown -21.2% (2010-04-14 → 2016-07-21), recovered after 3,220 days.

Rules of the top strategy

Breaking above the channel top (average plus a multiple of volatility) signals an upside breakout.

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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