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Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock. 1 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; Donchian 채널 돌파 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester.

Data 2018-02-08 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 2,130 (8.5 years)Costs 0.5%Venue XNASMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

1 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR 28.7%, drawdown -46.4%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): Donchian 채널 돌파 — CAGR 29.2%, MDD -38.7%, Sharpe 0.98, 76% exposure.

No strategy retained at least 75% of buy-and-hold CAGR while reducing drawdown by both 20% relatively and 5 percentage points absolutely.

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=23, exitN=76
29.2%-38.7%0.980.768.8x1176%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=32, slow=219
26.5%-45.1%0.910.597.3x1371%
ROC 모멘텀
n=67, threshold=-0.05
21.9%-44.1%0.820.505.4x5974%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=39, slow=247
23.4%-45.1%0.810.525.9x976%
Supertrend
period=29, mult=3.4
16.9%-32.4%0.710.523.8x4160%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=60, atrPeriod=10, mult=1.2
15.5%-34.4%0.680.453.4x5355%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=57, k=0.9
14.2%-34.3%0.640.413.1x5153%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.02, maxStep=0.22
11.5%-32.0%0.530.362.5x18257%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=28, threshold=33
1.9%-6.8%0.440.281.2x22%
MACD
fast=13, slow=37, signal=4
5.9%-46.8%0.350.131.6x20651%
Buy and hold28.7%-46.4%0.850.628.5x1100%
1x 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Donchian 채널 돌파Buy and hold
Donchian 채널 돌파: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -12% -23% -35% -46% 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Buy and holdDonchian 채널 돌파
Donchian 채널 돌파 maximum drawdown -38.7% (2021-11-05 → 2022-09-29), recovered after 885 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 carried forward from the latest full optimization and replayed on this monthly dataset. 0.5% trading costs are included; taxes, slippage and rejected orders are not.
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