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Tower Semiconductor Ltd. backtest

10 trend-following strategies were compared on the full daily history of Tower Semiconductor Ltd.. 9 beat buy-and-hold CAGR; ROC 모멘텀 ranks first by Sharpe, matching the main backtester. The return/drawdown alternative is EMA 크로스오버 (CAGR 15.5%, MDD -61.3%).

Data 1994-10-26 ~ 2026-07-31daily bars 7,993 (31.8 years)Costs 0.5%Venue XNASMonthly snapshot 2026-07-31

Results by strategy

9 of 10 beat buy and hold (CAGR 0.1%, drawdown -99.7%).

Sharpe leader (same as main): ROC 모멘텀 — CAGR 19.7%, MDD -75.2%, Sharpe 0.65, 40% exposure.

Return/drawdown alternative: EMA 크로스오버 — CAGR is 19.6%p higher than buy and hold, while drawdown improves by 24.6%p (CAGR 15.5%, MDD -61.3%, exposure 46%).

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=138, threshold=0.13
19.7%-75.2%0.650.26305.8x15340%
SMA 크로스오버
fast=14, slow=156
17.3%-66.5%0.590.26159.2x7146%
Keltner 채널 돌파
emaPeriod=72, atrPeriod=17, mult=1.7
15.1%-68.8%0.570.2288.0x14038%
Supertrend
period=8, mult=4.5
16.2%-82.2%0.560.20116.9x11450%
EMA 크로스오버
fast=11, slow=152
15.5%-61.3%0.550.2596.2x7546%
Donchian 채널 돌파
entryN=90, exitN=65
15.6%-77.6%0.550.2098.7x4146%
볼린저 밴드 돌파
n=51, k=1.8
13.6%-75.6%0.530.1857.5x13634%
ADX / DI 방향성
period=30, threshold=15
10.4%-86.4%0.450.1222.9x20432%
Parabolic SAR
step=0.01, maxStep=0.38
6.4%-85.1%0.350.077.1x38648%
MACD
fast=19, slow=55, signal=15
-0.5%-94.2%0.21-0.010.9x35651%
Buy and hold0.1%-99.7%0.300.001.0x1100%
0.01 0.1 1x 10x 100x 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 ROC 모멘텀Buy and hold
ROC 모멘텀: Solid strategy line versus dashed buy-and-hold line. Log scale.
0% -25% -50% -75% -100% 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 Buy and holdROC 모멘텀
ROC 모멘텀 maximum drawdown -75.2% (1997-10-14 → 1999-10-11), recovered after 878 days.

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 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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