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Alphabet Volume-Weighted Trend

Trend

Follows price against a 120-period volume-weighted moving average.

What this strategy does

Alphabet Volume-Weighted Trend is a trend strategy that trades GOOGL on 1-hour bars. Follows price against a 120-period volume-weighted moving average.

How it performed

Backtested on real GOOGL market data from 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30 (3.0 years), this run returned +109.4%, or +28.0% annualized. It closed 84 trades with a 32% win rate. Risk-adjusted, that is a Sharpe ratio of 1.13, a Sortino ratio of 1.75 and a maximum drawdown of 15.7%.

Key results
SymbolGOOGL
Bar size1-hour
Strategy typeTrend
Backtest period2023-07-01 → 2026-06-30
Total return+109.4%
Annualized return+28.0%
Sharpe ratio1.13
Sortino ratio1.75
Max drawdown15.7%
Win rate32%
Closed trades84

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