Freqtrade strategies, tested side by side

Every strategy here ran on the same 10 coins, the same 2 years of Binance data and the same 0.1% fee. Sort the table, open any strategy for its full report, and compare it with simply holding Bitcoin.

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27 strategies · 1 Jun 2023 to 30 May 2025 · $1,000 starting balance, $200 per trade, up to 5 trades open.


ReinforcedAverageStrategyMoving-average crossover	4h	+126.5%	9.7%	33.2%	1.93	328
AverageStrategyMoving-average crossover	4h	+123.3%	13.1%	31.1%	1.52	592
MultiMaTrend following	4h	+97.8%	11.1%	67.3%	2.43	245
AwesomeMacdMomentum	1h	+87.8%	23.9%	31.4%	1.23	1,006
UniversalMACDMomentum	5m	+74.7%	7.2%	77.3%	3.91	397
SupertrendTrend following	1h	+68.3%	27.0%	60.9%	1.13	1,563
PowerTowerHyperopt-generated	5m	+39.8%	28.0%	68.6%	1.22	1,224
ADXMomentumTrend following	1h	+32.5%	28.9%	85.8%	1.06	3,425
MACDStrategyMomentum	5m	+22.9%	39.2%	96.6%	1.11	1,140
SwingHighToSkyHyperopt-generated	15m	+8.7%	37.9%	71.3%	1.07	1,361
BbandRsiMean reversion	1h	+7.9%	32.7%	63.7%	1.03	394
SimpleMomentum breakout	5m	−9.4%	53.4%	86.4%	0.98	3,050
ClucMay72018Dip buying	5m	−12.6%	26.3%	78.9%	0.87	517
DiamondHyperopt-generated	5m	−16.3%	27.4%	67.2%	0.75	714
Strategy004Oscillator reversal	5m	−22.2%	50.2%	92.6%	0.91	1,578
QuickieTrend pullback	5m	−24.7%	48.4%	94.3%	0.90	1,010
Strategy002Mean reversion	5m	−25.9%	35.8%	90.7%	0.70	462
Strategy003Mean reversion	5m	−39.0%	51.6%	92.0%	0.77	1,049
Strategy001Trend following	5m	−46.3%	61.9%	88.8%	0.87	1,612
HourBasedStrategyTime of day	1h	−52.5%	69.7%	63.7%	0.85	979
BinHV27Dip buying	5m	−59.4%	60.3%	55.7%	0.80	2,477
Strategy005Volume + oscillator	5m	−62.0%	68.3%	83.1%	0.80	909
ReinforcedQuickieDip buying	5m	−79.8%	80.0%	65.9%	0.73	2,100
TechnicalExampleStrategyMoney flow	5m	−80.0%	80.0%	26.0%	0.27	1,844
SmoothOperatorMean reversion	5m	−80.0%	80.2%	58.9%	0.80	2,006
EMASkipPumpDip buying	5m	−80.1%	80.2%	47.5%	0.42	1,562
CofiBitStrategyOscillator reversal	5m	−80.6%	80.6%	24.8%	0.23	2,469

Strategy balance$1,000 held in BTCAll sparklines share one logarithmic scale.

How to read these results

Return is only half the story

A strategy that made 40% with a 60% drawdown asked you to sit through losing more than half your account. Check max drawdown before return.

A high win rate can hide big losses

Many strategies take tiny 1% profits and use stoplosses of 10% or more. They win often and still lose money. Profit factor (gross wins ÷ gross losses) shows the balance.

Same test, different market

This window includes a strong crypto bull run. Strategies that hold cash much of the time will trail buy-and-hold in that kind of market. How we test explains every setting.