15.2 points behind buy and hold after costs; mixed check results.
Golden cross · 14 global commodity futures
It returned +18.2% in total over the test, after costs; buying and holding over the same period returned +33.4%, 15.2 points more. It kept making money on the years it wasn't tuned on (+3.4%). The nearby-settings check wasn't run (it isn't run on a group of stocks), so this doesn't show whether the result depends on the exact settings. With the trades in a worse order, the worst fall was 35% or more in 1 of 20 reshuffles. 55 trades, enough to judge.
The rules: Enters when the 50-day average crosses above the 200-day average; leaves when it crosses back below (the death cross).
StratLab ran these rules through its own backtest on every stock in the group, after costs, and through four checks: unseen years, nearby settings, a bad-luck drawdown and enough trades. The page shows the return beside buy and hold and the result of each check. A verdict describes the past, not what comes next, and nothing here is investment advice.