The best indicator for Blink
We backtested 382 indicators across daily, weekly and hourly charts on real Blink history. Here's what actually worked — risk-adjusted, out-of-sample, with costs.
Where Blink stands
Computed from our own daily OHLCV history, not quoted from a third party. Moving averages use closing prices; "52-week" is the last 252 trading sessions.
Vortex (7)
On the daily chart, this is the strongest risk-adjusted edge we found for Blink over ~16.5 years — beating buy-and-hold by 43.7% CAGR.
Blink on the daily chart
The timeframe our backtest found best for this asset. The chart is live market data; the results above are hypothetical and historical.
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The winner on each chart
Every indicator, ranked
Ranked by Sharpe (risk-adjusted return). Hypothetical, fees included.
| # | Indicator | TF | CAGR | Sharpe | Max DD | Win | Trades | vs B&H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pivot Points (Standard) | Daily | 74.6% | 1.1 | -97.2% | 44.2% | 659 | 114.3% |
| 2 | Fibonacci Pivots | Daily | 65.2% | 1.02 | -97.7% | 43.8% | 715 | 104.9% |
| 3 | Camarilla Pivots | Daily | 48.5% | 0.87 | -98.6% | 44.8% | 878 | 88.2% |
| 4 | Ichimoku TK Cross | Daily | 9.0% | 0.46 | -93.7% | 32.7% | 98 | 48.8% |
| 5 | MA Envelope | Daily | 20.9% | 0.45 | -97.5% | 46.3% | 244 | 60.7% |
| 6 | Trend-Gated Asymmetric | Daily | 9.6% | 0.42 | -59.6% | 39.1% | 23 | 49.3% |
| 7 | Keltner Breakout | Daily | 8.1% | 0.4 | -85.8% | 40.5% | 37 | 47.8% |
| 8 | Keltner 50 (x2.0) | Daily | 6.7% | 0.37 | -80.5% | 40.0% | 65 | 46.5% |
| 9 | Keltner 10 (x1.5) | Daily | 8.1% | 0.37 | -59.9% | 44.3% | 79 | 47.8% |
| 10 | Bollinger 30 (x2.0) Break | Daily | 7.8% | 0.37 | -72.4% | 39.7% | 78 | 47.5% |
| 11 | Chaikin Money Flow | Daily | 6.0% | 0.36 | -84.5% | 43.3% | 120 | 45.7% |
| 12 | Keltner Mean-Reversion | Daily | 12.7% | 0.35 | -93.4% | 57.4% | 47 | 52.4% |
| 13 | VWAP Bands | Daily | 6.9% | 0.35 | -93.4% | 44.9% | 98 | 46.6% |
| 14 | Vortex (7) ✓ | Daily | 4.0% | 0.34 | -99.5% | 37.8% | 344 | 43.7% |
✓ = held up out-of-sample. Hypothetical, costs included. See methodology.
The question doesn't apply here. Buy-and-hold on Blink lost money across the out-of-sample window in 504 of 504 tests, so there is no positive benchmark to lever toward — clearing a negative bar is a much weaker claim than beating a real one, and we keep the two apart rather than counting it as a win. How we compute that
For Blink, Vortex (7) on the daily timeframe gave the best balance of return and risk in our test. It beat buy-and-hold — but remember: this is a hypothetical backtest of a standard rule, not a recommendation. Markets change. See the methodology and disclaimer.
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