A simulated account, traded by one rule

Two years.
191 trades.
One question every morning.

From 17 May 2024 to 24 Jul 2026, a $10,000 account asked Edge Check to grade 522 stocks each night, bought the best of them at the next open, and exited on the stop or profit target printed on the card. No discretion. No overrides. This is every session.

This is a backtest based on the Edge Check tool running daily on the S&P 500 stocks, not a live track record. Nobody traded this money. The method and its weaknesses are at the bottom.

$19,983 the account
$13,322 same money in SPY
0.0% drawdown here
24 Jul 2026
+100%return
-9.9%worst drawdown
53%win rate
1.89profit factor
+0.58Raverage trade
191trades

What it did every morning

  1. Read the grades. Edge Check scores all 522 names 0 to 100 off the previous close. Below 75, or no setup firing, is ignored.
  2. Buy the best, up to 8 at once. When names tie on the same score it picks between them at random, because nothing tested beat a coin flip there.
  3. Risk 1% per trade. Size is 1% of the account divided by the distance to the stop, so a wide stop buys fewer shares.
  4. Exit on the card. The stop, the 2.5R profit target, or 40 sessions, whichever lands first.

How the 191 trades ended

Closed in profit7640%
Closed at a loss8947%
Timed out at 40 sessions2614%

A losing trade costs 1R. A winner pays 2.5R. That is why losing more often than hitting the profit target still makes money.

Against the alternatives

RunFinalReturnMax DDTrades
This accountbuying the best graded names$19,983+100%-9.9%191
SPY buy and hold$10,000 left alone in the index$13,322+33%-19.0%-

$6,660 ahead of simply holding the index, and it got there with 9.1 points less drawdown along the way.

Every session

Bought Closed in profit Closed at a loss Nothing graded
UptrendPullbackCorrectionBear MarketRecoveryStrong UptrendMixed Tape

The coloured bar across the top of each day is that session's market regime. It is not set by hand: it comes straight from the same breadth reading Market Monitor publishes every day.

What this is, and what it is not

A replay. The rules above were applied to historical data with no human judgement at any point. Nobody traded this account, and these are not results any person achieved.

Read these before you trust the number:

  • Part of a signal's grade rests on how that setup performed across its whole measured history, which includes dates after the day being graded. A live trader would not have had that.
  • The list of stocks is today's S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 membership, so companies that failed and left the index are missing from it.
  • The scoring model was fitted on data that overlaps this window, so it has seen some of these days before.
  • Fills assume the next open with fixed slippage and no market impact. When a single day touches both the stop and the target, it is counted as a loss.

The $19,983 headline is the median of 25 runs, not a best case. Ties break at random, so the same rules over the same two years land anywhere between $17,776 and $22,412. Any single number would be a cherry pick.

Every trade links into Edge Check for that ticker and date. Pick one and grade it yourself. That is the only claim here worth anything.