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Palo Alto Morning Star Reversal

Price pattern

Trades the three-candle morning-star reversal with a 3% target and 2% stop.

What this strategy does

Palo Alto Morning Star Reversal is a price pattern strategy that trades PANW on 15-minute bars. Trades the three-candle morning-star reversal with a 3% target and 2% stop.

How it performed

Backtested on real PANW market data from 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30 (3.0 years), this run returned +60.6%, or +17.1% annualized. It closed 62 trades with a 56% win rate. Risk-adjusted, that is a Sharpe ratio of 1.58, a Sortino ratio of 2.44 and a maximum drawdown of 8.7%.

Key results
SymbolPANW
Bar size15-minute
Strategy typePrice pattern
Backtest period2023-07-01 → 2026-06-30
Total return+60.6%
Annualized return+17.1%
Sharpe ratio1.58
Sortino ratio2.44
Max drawdown8.7%
Win rate56%
Closed trades62

Evidence

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Strategy rules & configuration

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