GOOGL Stock: RSI 30/70 Mean Reversion Backtest — +102.4% vs +178.8% Buy-and-Hold
Real backtest of the RSI 30/70 Mean Reversion strategy on GOOGL over 5 years: +102.4% return vs +178.8% buy-and-hold, 9 trades, 56% win rate, 14.8% max drawdown. Computed on real historical data, not simulated — full trade log and verdict inside.
- Total return: +102.4% (trailed buy-and-hold at +178.8%)
- Win rate: 56% over 9 trades
- Max drawdown: 14.8%
- Sharpe ratio: 0.78
- Period: 5 years of real historical price data
What the numbers say
On GOOGL, the RSI 30/70 Mean Reversion trailed buy-and-hold over the five years through Nov 2026: +102.4% against +178.8% for simply holding — a gap of 76.3 percentage points. The strategy took 9 completed trades (5 profitable, 4 not), a 56% win rate.
That came with a shallower worst stretch: the strategy's max drawdown was 14.8% versus 30.6% for buy-and-hold. Dollar-cost averaging into GOOGL over the same window returned +89.0%. Best single trade: +30.7% (2025-04-04 to 2025-07-21); worst: -5.0% (2022-09-21 to 2022-10-27).
Computed by StratIQ's backtest engine on real daily prices through Nov 2026 (generated 2026-11-12). Fills are assumed at the close with a 5% stop-loss; slippage and commissions are not modeled. This is a historical study of a rule — not a pick, not a recommendation, and not financial advice.
A classic mean-reversion setup: buy Google (GOOGL) when the 14-day RSI signals oversold (below 30), sell when it signals overbought (above 70).
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