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3Commas Visible DCA Strategy

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 4 hTradeSearcher backtest

2.84

Profit Factor

901.99 %

Total ROI

525

RSI+PA+PrTP

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 4 hTradeSearcher backtest

2.65

Profit Factor

603.74 %

Total ROI

167

OBV Pyr

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ DailyTradeSearcher backtest

1.92

Profit Factor

439.68 %

Total ROI

239

hamster-bot MRS 2 (simplified version)

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 4 h

1.90

Profit Factor

550.78 %

Total ROI

34

ES cuh

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ Daily

1.77

Profit Factor

796.12 %

Total ROI

683

Bollinger Band with RSI

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 1 hTradeSearcher backtest

1.71

Profit Factor

207.72 %

Total ROI

304

Setup 9.1 Larry Williams

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ Daily

1.71

Profit Factor

518.80 %

Total ROI

55

3Commas Visible DCA Strategy

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 1 hTradeSearcher backtest

1.68

Profit Factor

289.35 %

Total ROI

293

OBV Pyr

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 4 hTradeSearcher backtest

1.64

Profit Factor

436.33 %

Total ROI

255

Bollinger Band with RSI

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 4 hTradeSearcher backtest

1.52

Profit Factor

453.64 %

Total ROI

429

Strategy: Combo Z Score

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 2 h

1.49

Profit Factor

1,880.60 %

Total ROI

704

Buy Sell First Hour Strategy

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)

@ 2 h

1.45

Profit Factor

185.17 %

Total ROI

491

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About E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!) backtests

What is E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!)?

E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!) is a futures contract traded on the CBOT_MINI exchange and settled in USD. It tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the most widely followed benchmarks of U.S. large-cap equities, giving traders a smaller-sized, cost-efficient way to gain exposure to the index and hedge or speculate on broad market direction. As a highly liquid instrument, it is popular among both active day traders and longer-term participants. TradeSearcher has run over 2,400 backtests on YM1!, drawing on price history dating back to 2002 to give you more than two decades of data to evaluate strategies across market cycles.

YM1! backtest statistics

Aggregated results of TradeSearcher's backtests on E-MINI DOW (5$) FUTURES (YM1!) over price data from Apr 2002 to Oct 2026. These figures are recomputed automatically as new backtests are added.

2,886
Backtests run
239
Strategies listed
51%
Beat buy & hold
1%
Median net profit
67.9%
Average win rate
25.5%
Median max drawdown

Performance by strategy type

TypeBacktestsMedian net profitAvg win rateMedian max DDAvg Sharpe
Swing350.5%68.2%15.4%0.39
Long-term621.4%68.1%30.5%0.17

The 15-minute timeframe recorded the best average Sharpe ratio (0.65) across 7 backtests.

Top YM1! strategies by profit factor

StrategyTimeframeProfit factorWin rateNet profitTrades
🔒 Premium strategy4-hour5.7695.2%1.6%21
🔒 Premium strategy4-hour5.2895%1.6%20
🔒 Premium strategy1-hour5.2695%1.6%20
🔒 Premium strategydaily5.0594.1%3.1%17
🔒 Premium strategy2-hour4.7875.3%3.8%146
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