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Mean Reversion

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QCRH’s daily moves don’t reliably mean-revert. The dip-buy stats below are weak or noisy — at the daily close-to-close horizon this signal works cleanly on the broad equity indices (SPY, QQQ) and mostly breaks down on commodities and crypto.
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QCRH — No setup$102.57 · 2026-09-11

QCRH shows only a faint, unreliable daily reversal bias.

Nothing stretched right now — no short-term setup.

Today
+0.6%
last close-to-close
RSI(2)
79.2
neutral
vs 50-day avg
+1.6%
+0.5σ
Streak
2 up
closes in a row
Off 20-day high
-5.1%
pullback depth
Reversal character: after an up day, next day averages -0.29% (38% up); after a down day, +0.45% (49% up). Reversal score +0.74%, 1-day autocorrelation -0.226 — negative = mean-reverting.
Growth of $1, close-to-close, since 1993. The two lines are held the day after their trigger and sit in cash otherwise, so they trade a similar number of days — the comparison is the dip-buy leg (green) against its opposite (red), not against buy & hold. No costs or slippage.
Forward return by RSI(2) at the close (toggle mean / median above). Low RSI(2) = short-term oversold. Bar outlined = where QCRH is now.
Forward return by how far price sits from its 50-day average (in standard deviations). Outlined = now.
The next-day return after a run of consecutive up or down closes. A rising staircase toward the “down” end is mean reversion.
Mean-reversion edge by year — the dip-buy leg's next-day return minus its opposite (after a down day vs after an up day, or bottom- vs top-decile RSI(2)). Above zero = the name faded moves that year. Bars are the mean, which a crash can swing hard in either direction (2020); the tick marks are the median — the typical day.
Matched-exposure comparisons — each pair trades a similar number of days, so raw returns are comparable. RSI(2) deciles use thresholds ≤9.4 and ≥93.3.
RuleDays heldAvg / dayWin rate TotalCAGRSharpeMax DD
After a DOWN close 3,238 (39%) +0.453% 49.3% +84,087,328% +51.3% 1.77 -31.5%
After an UP close 3,399 (41%) -0.285% 37.7% -100% -27.7% -1.20 -100.0%
Bottom 10% RSI(2) 829 (10%) +0.698% 48.7% +24,278% +18.2% 1.29 -25.4%
Top 10% RSI(2) 829 (10%) -0.484% 33.7% -99% -12.2% -0.94 -98.8%
How to read this  ▾

Some assets mean-revert at short horizons (a sharp move tends to partly reverse); others trend (a move tends to continue). At the daily close-to-close horizon the reversal shows up cleanly and consistently in the broad equity indices and mostly breaks down elsewhere — commodities, crypto, and individual stocks carry their own momentum. The names above are the ones where it holds up.

RSI(2) is a 2-day momentum oscillator — below ~10 is short-term oversold, above ~90 overbought. Distance from the 50-day average is measured in standard deviations (z-score). Streak counts consecutive up or down closes. For each, we show what happened over the next 1–5 days, historically.

The strategy table pairs each dip-buy rule against its opposite — day-after-a-down-close vs day-after-an-up-close, and the bottom vs top RSI(2) decile. Both legs of a pair are held one day and trade a similar number of days, so raw returns compare fairly (unlike buy & hold, which wins on total return simply by always being invested). Avg / day — mean return on the days the rule is in the market — is the cleanest apples-to-apples number. Frictionless: no commissions or slippage. A character test, not a tradeable system. Past behaviour is not a forecast.

End-of-day adjusted closes, refreshed nightly. 8,289 trading days, 1993-10-06 – 2026-09-11. Backward-looking statistics, not investment advice.