The best indicator for Flow
We backtested 382 indicators across daily, weekly and hourly charts on real Flow history. Here's what actually worked — risk-adjusted, out-of-sample, with costs.
Where Flow 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.
Coral Trend
On the daily chart, this is the strongest risk-adjusted edge we found for Flow over ~7.8 years — beating buy-and-hold by 71.7% CAGR.
Flow 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 | Coral Trend ✓ | Daily | 21.2% | 0.6 | -69.3% | 31.6% | 38 | 71.7% |
| 2 | Adaptive Supertrend ✓ | Daily | 21.1% | 0.6 | -67.9% | 34.0% | 47 | 71.7% |
| 3 | Kaufman Adaptive MA | Daily | 16.7% | 0.54 | -77.2% | 37.7% | 106 | 67.2% |
| 4 | Supertrend (10,3) | Daily | 15.4% | 0.52 | -72.5% | 36.4% | 22 | 66.0% |
| 5 | Supertrend (7,3) | Daily | 13.3% | 0.5 | -70.9% | 30.4% | 23 | 63.9% |
| 6 | Supertrend Fast (10,2) | Daily | 10.3% | 0.45 | -73.6% | 35.1% | 37 | 60.9% |
| 7 | Trend Magic | Daily | 10.3% | 0.45 | -73.9% | 37.5% | 96 | 60.9% |
| 8 | Supertrend (10,2) | Daily | 10.3% | 0.45 | -73.6% | 35.1% | 37 | 60.9% |
| 9 | ADX / DMI | Daily | 9.3% | 0.43 | -75.6% | 32.5% | 40 | 59.9% |
| 10 | Chaikin Volatility ✓ | Daily | 9.7% | 0.42 | -73.7% | 35.9% | 64 | 60.3% |
| 11 | Bollinger 50 (x2.5) Break ✓ | Daily | 4.6% | 0.4 | -18.0% | 62.5% | 16 | 55.2% |
| 12 | Jurik MA (approx.) ✓ | Weekly | 7.5% | 0.4 | -64.7% | 27.8% | 18 | 73.5% |
| 13 | G-Channel | Daily | 7.8% | 0.38 | -61.5% | 35.5% | 31 | 58.4% |
| 14 | Pascal's Weighted MA ✓ | Daily | 7.5% | 0.38 | -61.1% | 33.3% | 72 | 58.1% |
✓ = held up out-of-sample. Hypothetical, costs included. See methodology.
The question doesn't apply here. Buy-and-hold on Flow lost money across the out-of-sample window in 292 of 292 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 Flow, Coral Trend 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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