The StratIQ Blog
We Published Wrong Backtest Numbers. Here's the Correction.
Our first QQQ golden-cross backtest showed +273.2%. It was wrong. We re-ran it from scratch, published the corrected +238.5%, and documented exactly what broke — because a backtest you can't trust is worse than none.
“Sell in May and Go Away”: The Honest Test We're About to Run
The plan for our next myth-busting backtest: hold SPY November–April, sit in cash May–October, versus buy-and-hold. Here's the exact test design before we know the answer.
RSI: What the Indicator Actually Measures (and What It Doesn't)
RSI doesn't measure whether a stock is cheap or expensive — it measures how lopsided recent price movement has been. A plain-English explainer of the 14-day Relative Strength Index, its real uses, and its most common misuse.
QQQ Golden Cross Backtest: +238.5% vs +289.1% Buy-and-Hold (2019–2026)
We backtested the classic 50/200-day golden cross on QQQ from 2019-10-16 to 2026-09-18: 3 trades, all winners, +238.5% total return vs +289.1% buy-and-hold. Full methodology, trades, and what the result actually means.
How We Backtest: The Execution Rules That Keep Our Numbers Honest
Look-ahead bias, phantom signals, and dropped exit-day returns: the three silent flaws that corrupt most retail backtests, and the execution rules StratIQ uses to avoid them.