A Rules-Based "What If"
The In-Out button answers one question: "If I had bought and sold this investment purely based on its own chart signals, how would that have gone?" You pick a start point and an end point on the chart, and QuantLogIQ walks through that period column by column, applying a fixed rule.
The Rule It Follows
- Getting in: a confirmed bullish (double-top-style) breakout signal triggers an entry at that price.
- Getting out: a confirmed bearish (double-bottom-style) breakdown signal triggers an exit at that price.
This repeats for every signal in the window you selected, building a full sequence of simulated trades — not just one.
What You See in the Result
Each simulated trade shows its entry price and date, exit price and date, and the percentage return for that trade. Add them together (compounded) and you get a total simulated return for the whole period, along with an annualised return figure so you can compare it fairly across different time spans.
Why It's Useful
It turns an abstract idea — "the signals on this chart look good" — into a concrete track record you can actually inspect: how many trades, how often they worked, and what the compounded result would have been. It's a backtest, not a forecast — past signal behaviour doesn't guarantee future signals will play out the same way.