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Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of Northern Oil and Gas, Inc.. 10 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; Supertrend ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is 볼린저 밴드 돌파 (CAGR 8.9%, MDD -66.1%).

Data 2007-04-13 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 4,856 (19.3 years)Costs 0.5%Venue XNYSMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

10 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR -3.3%, drawdown -99.0%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): Supertrend — CAGR 10.1%, MDD -88.5%, Sharpe 0.44, 48% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: 볼린저 밴드 돌파 — CAGR is 13.4%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 10.5%p (CAGR 8.9%, MDD -66.1%, exposure 38%).

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
Supertrend
period=10, mult=2.2
10.1%-88.5%0.440.116.4x18648%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=26, k=1.1
8.9%-66.1%0.410.135.2x20338%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=28, atrPeriod=22, mult=2.1
8.2%-68.7%0.400.124.6x10225%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.005, maxStep=0.14
7.9%-75.6%0.390.104.3x16348%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=45, slow=126
7.5%-80.3%0.380.094.1x3448%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=7, slow=213
7.4%-76.2%0.380.104.0x5446%
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=67, exitN=17
7.1%-70.0%0.370.103.7x5425%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=30, threshold=14
3.7%-70.3%0.280.052.0x12423%
ROC 모멘텀
n=96, threshold=-0.02
-0.1%-91.2%0.21-0.001.0x18654%
MACD
fast=10, slow=54, signal=9
-2.5%-91.0%0.18-0.030.6x36150%
Buy and hold-3.3%-99.0%0.31-0.030.5x1100%
0.1 1x 10x 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 SupertrendBuy and hold
Supertrend: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -25% -49% -74% -99% 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 Buy and holdSupertrend
Supertrend maximum drawdown -88.5% (2011-07-20 → 2016-02-23), recovered after 3,466 days.

Rules of the top strategy

Trades the direction of a volatility-based trend line that trails below/above price.

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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