📈 Ladder Backtester Ladder strategy vs. buy & hold

Rolling-window regime study

For each ticker, slides a 1-year window forward one week at a time across the chosen span, runs the strategy in every window, and plots strategy CAGR − buy&hold CAGR against the window's own return. The goal is to see in what environment (rising / flat / falling) and in what periods the ladder helps or hurts.

Strategy parameters

Each C level is run in every window. Overlapping windows are highly autocorrelated — read the cloud as illustrative, not as an independent sample.

Rolling studies

+ New study
#TickersSpanMode WindowsC levelsMedian ΔCorr(Δ,mkt)
3 AMZN, CSCO, NFLX, GOOG, META, NVDA, GM, TSLA, AAPL, COST 2018-01-01 → 2026-06-14 scale 3880 70, 90% +0.88 pp -0.93
2 AMZN, CSCO, NFLX, GOOG, META, NVDA, GM, TSLA, AAPL, COST 2018-01-01 → 2026-06-14 scale 3880 70, 90% -4.29 pp -0.96
1 AAPL, ORCL, COST, META 2023-06-04 → 2026-06-04 lifo 420 70, 90% -6.49 pp -0.99

Median Δ & correlation are for the first C level. Negative correlation ⇒ the strategy is defensive (helps when the market falls, lags when it rises).