The best indicator for Monday.com
We backtested 382 indicators across daily, weekly and hourly charts on real Monday.com history. Here's what actually worked — risk-adjusted, out-of-sample, with costs.
Gator Oscillator
On the weekly chart, this is the strongest risk-adjusted edge we found for Monday.com over ~5.1 years — beating buy-and-hold by 28.1% CAGR.
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 | Predictive Ranges | Daily | 17.8% | 0.6 | -42.5% | 30.6% | 36 | 35.5% |
| 2 | Delta Volume Rising (CVD proxy) | Weekly | 16.1% | 0.56 | -50.1% | 48.1% | 27 | 34.5% |
| 3 | Twiggs Money Flow | Weekly | 16.9% | 0.57 | -43.0% | 50.0% | 14 | 35.4% |
| 4 | Gator Oscillator ✓ | Weekly | 9.6% | 0.61 | -21.6% | 69.2% | 13 | 28.1% |
| 5 | CCI ✓ | Daily | 12.2% | 0.48 | -55.2% | 84.0% | 25 | 29.9% |
| 6 | Hammer | Daily | 7.9% | 0.45 | -34.1% | 35.0% | 20 | 25.7% |
| 7 | Bollinger Mean-Reversion | Daily | 9.3% | 0.43 | -68.2% | 76.0% | 25 | 27.0% |
| 8 | Fibonacci Bands | Daily | 9.3% | 0.43 | -68.2% | 76.0% | 25 | 27.0% |
| 9 | Least Squares MA | Daily | 8.7% | 0.41 | -59.9% | 36.6% | 93 | 26.4% |
| 10 | HalfTrend ✓ | Daily | 7.7% | 0.39 | -67.2% | 36.1% | 36 | 25.4% |
| 11 | G-Channel | Daily | 7.8% | 0.39 | -48.2% | 44.8% | 29 | 25.6% |
| 12 | LSMA 10/30 Cross ✓ | Daily | 7.4% | 0.39 | -56.7% | 44.4% | 45 | 25.1% |
| 13 | Pring's Special K ✓ | Daily | 7.0% | 0.38 | -36.5% | 40.0% | 40 | 24.8% |
| 14 | Bullish Harami | Daily | 7.4% | 0.38 | -51.3% | 40.0% | 60 | 25.1% |
✓ = held up out-of-sample. Hypothetical, costs included. See methodology.
For Monday.com, Gator Oscillator on the weekly 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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