Built for swing & daily-bar traders.
A rules-based, regime-aware strategy that reads the same nine-dimension engine as the rest of InvestMuse, runs every night after the close, and is tracked in the open — losing trades included.
Reads each asset's regime with a Hidden Markov Model every night, buys an asset when its regime turns Hot and sells when it cools. Every trade is logged in the open — and it races the members and the five commentators on the monthly leaderboard.
| Year | Return | Max DD | Sharpe | Trades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +18.2% | −13.7% | 0.90 | 268 |
| 2025 | +35.0% | −12.5% | 1.48 | 462 |
| 2024 | +42.0% | −9.3% | 1.57 | 498 |
| 2023 | +39.4% | −15.6% | 1.63 | 559 |
GROSS hypothetical returns exclude commissions, slippage, financing and taxes; actual costs vary by broker and account. Price-only data; dividends and broker-specific margin rules are not modelled. Optional NET is an assumed-cost sensitivity, not an achievable account return.
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +3.2 | +6.8 | -4.1 | +9.3 | +15.3 | +0.7 | -8.9 | +4.5 | -4.6 | -3.0 | · | · |
| 2025 | +4.0 | +0.6 | -2.0 | +0.3 | +4.3 | +12.2 | +5.6 | +0.3 | +5.4 | +4.9 | -4.4 | +0.2 |
| 2024 | -3.3 | +12.8 | +3.1 | -1.5 | +7.0 | +0.9 | +3.8 | -1.0 | +7.4 | +4.4 | +9.5 | -5.7 |
| 2023 | +8.0 | -5.9 | +8.0 | -2.6 | +6.0 | +9.2 | +4.7 | -5.6 | -5.3 | -3.7 | +12.2 | +11.5 |
Why gross of costs? Every broker charges differently — commission, spread and financing depend on the broker, the account and the country — and the slippage on a market-open fill cannot be forecast honestly. So we publish the model's own result and let you apply your own costs: take your round-trip cost per trade as a percentage, multiply it by the number of trades, and divide by the 20 equal positions the model holds (each trade is about 1/20 of the portfolio); multiply by the leverage if you use it. Subtract the result from the return. For example, 0.10% per round trip × 1,787 trades ÷ 20 ≈ 8.9 percentage points over 2023–2026 at 1x, before compounding.
▸ See the InvestMuse HMM AlgoTrader's recent trades20 open · 25 closed · newest first
| Symbol | Opened | Entry @ | Closed | Exit / last | Days | P/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETNEaton Corporation, Plcs · Industrials · NYSE · United States | Oct 14 | 423.2 | open | 408.9 | 0 | -3.4% |
| SHOPShopify Inc. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 14 | 174.6 | open | 172.5 | 0 | -1.2% |
| CRWDCrowdstrike Holdings, Inc. Class A · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 29 | 257.2 | Oct 14 | 253.7 | 15 | -1.3% |
| LHLabcorp Holdings Inc. · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Sep 14 | 314.1 | Oct 14 | 314.1 | 30 | 0.0% |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc. Class A · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 13 | 208.1 | open | 201.0 | 1 | -3.4% |
| DOCSDoximity Inc · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Oct 9 | 29.45 | Oct 13 | 30.68 | 4 | +4.2% |
| DISThe Walt Disney Company · Communication Services · NYSE · United States | Oct 5 | 101.8 | Oct 9 | 107.2 | 4 | +5.3% |
| FIXComfort Systems USA, Inc. · Industrials · NYSE · United States | Oct 8 | 1,716 | open | 1,542 | 6 | -10.2% |
| RKLBRocket Lab Corporation · Industrials · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 8 | 70.56 | open | 59.18 | 6 | -16.1% |
| BBYBest Buy Company, Inc. · Consumer Cyclical · NYSE · United States | Oct 5 | 88.06 | Oct 8 | 84.75 | 3 | -3.8% |
| WSTWest Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Aug 25 | 353.8 | Oct 8 | 365.7 | 44 | +3.4% |
| SWKSSkyworks Solutions Inc · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 7 | 81.14 | open | 76.89 | 7 | -5.2% |
| ICEIntercontinental Exchange Inc. · Financial Services · NYSE · United States | Sep 4 | 161.6 | Oct 7 | 152.9 | 33 | -5.4% |
| BBDBanco Bradesco S.A. · Financial Services · NYSE · United States | Oct 6 | 4.52 | open | 4.14 | 8 | -8.4% |
| XPXP Inc. · Financial Services · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 6 | 29.25 | open | 30.49 | 8 | +4.2% |
| SWKSSkyworks Solutions Inc · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 22 | 88.88 | Oct 6 | 85.43 | 14 | -3.9% |
| IBKRInteractive Brokers Group · Financial Services · NASDAQ · United States | Jan 22 | 76.89 | Oct 6 | 89.38 | 257 | +16.2% |
| MCKMckesson Corporation · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Oct 2 | 899.0 | Oct 5 | 905.2 | 3 | +0.7% |
| RKLBRocket Lab Corporation · Industrials · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 28 | 73.20 | Oct 5 | 73.70 | 7 | +0.7% |
| FTNTFortinet, Inc. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Oct 2 | 182.1 | open | 184.1 | 12 | +1.1% |
| DOCSDoximity Inc · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Oct 1 | 28.91 | Oct 2 | 28.93 | 1 | +0.1% |
| LOGILogitech International S.A. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 28 | 100.2 | Oct 2 | 104.6 | 4 | +4.4% |
| ITUBItaú Unibanco Holding S.A. · Financial Services · NYSE · United States | Sep 21 | 8.36 | Oct 1 | 8.51 | 10 | +1.8% |
| METAMeta Platforms, Inc. Class A · Communication Services · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 30 | 730.3 | open | 737.5 | 14 | +1.0% |
| MSFTMicrosoft Corp · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 28 | 505.5 | Sep 30 | 511.6 | 2 | +1.2% |
| TSLATesla, Inc. · Consumer Cyclical · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 23 | 380.1 | Sep 29 | 358.4 | 6 | -5.7% |
| SSentinelOne Inc · Technology · NYSE · United States | Sep 24 | 23.95 | Sep 28 | 21.87 | 4 | -8.7% |
| MRNAModerna, Inc. · Healthcare · NASDAQ · United States | Aug 24 | 142.7 | Sep 28 | 195.2 | 35 | +36.8% |
| NEMNewmont Corporation · Basic Materials · NYSE · United States | Dec 30 | 101.6 | Sep 28 | 115.5 | 272 | +13.8% |
| TTDThe Trade Desk, Inc. · Communication Services · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 25 | 12.56 | open | 12.18 | 19 | -3.0% |
| MTCHMatch Group, Inc · Communication Services · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 21 | 43.53 | Sep 25 | 40.66 | 4 | -6.6% |
| VZVerizon Communications · Communication Services · NYSE · United States | Sep 17 | 49.14 | Sep 24 | 46.20 | 7 | -6.0% |
| COINCoinbase Global · Financial Services · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 23 | 198.0 | open | 172.9 | 21 | -12.7% |
| FFIVF5, Inc. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 23 | 453.9 | open | 457.3 | 21 | +0.7% |
| SMCISuper Micro Computer, Inc. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 23 | 42.27 | open | 35.78 | 21 | -15.4% |
| MCKMckesson Corporation · Healthcare · NYSE · United States | Sep 21 | 874.8 | Sep 23 | 889.8 | 2 | +1.7% |
| EBAYEbay Inc · Consumer Cyclical · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 18 | 111.5 | Sep 23 | 109.4 | 5 | -1.9% |
| NYTThe New York Times Company · Communication Services · NYSE · United States | Sep 15 | 71.05 | Sep 23 | 65.02 | 8 | -8.5% |
| MPCMarathon Petroleum Corporation · Energy · NYSE · United States | Sep 10 | 405.0 | Sep 23 | 393.1 | 13 | -3.0% |
| NOKNokia Oyj · Technology · NYSE · United States | Sep 22 | 10.56 | open | 9.40 | 22 | -11.0% |
| DELLDell Technologies Inc. · Technology · NYSE · United States | Sep 8 | 521.2 | open | 507.9 | 36 | -2.5% |
| EPAMEpam Systems, Inc. · Technology · NYSE · United States | Sep 8 | 115.3 | open | 114.6 | 36 | -0.6% |
| MDBMongoDB, Inc. · Technology · NASDAQ · United States | Sep 4 | 378.3 | open | 356.3 | 40 | -5.8% |
| GLWCorning Incorporated · Technology · NYSE · United States | Jan 28 | 107.3 | open | 140.9 | 259 | +31.3% |
| APHAmphenol Corporation · Technology · NYSE · United States | Oct 24 | 68.12 | open | 82.69 | 355 | +21.4% |
Open positions show the last close in place of an exit. Fills at the next session's open, 1x, gross of costs — hypothetical, not advice.
Who this is for
If you hold positions for days to months and want a rules-based, regime-aware read on when a name is in a favourable state, this is your door. If you trade minute bars or scalp perps, it is honestly not your tool: the whole engine works on daily bars and publishes after the close. We would rather tell you that now than sell you a cadence we do not run.
The methodology, in plain terms
A Hidden Markov Model classifies each asset into an unobservable market regime — accumulation, trending, distribution, high-volatility — inferred purely from the statistical structure of returns and volatility. That regime read is one of nine dimensions scored every night: HMM regime, Technical, Trend, Support/Resistance, Fundamental, Sector Edge, Sentiment, Momentum and Pattern. The composite is a view, not a recommendation. The pipeline runs after market close and re-scores the entire universe as new daily bars land.
How often does the regime change? Measured on the nightly history of about 1,240 assets over the last twelve months: a typical asset switches regime about 15 times a year. Most switches are short, a median regime lasts 4 sessions, yet more than half of all trading days sit inside regimes that last a month or longer. Single stocks are the jumpiest (US stocks about 14 switches a year, other markets about 25); indices, currencies and commodities are calmer at 8 to 10 a year, with a median regime of three to five weeks. The InvestMuse HMM AlgoTrader acts only on a switch, so on most days it does nothing on purpose. (Measured 6 October 2026.)
What “win rate” means here
Win rate = the share of closed trades that ended positive, across the strategy's full universe over the stated window. It is a diagnostic, not a performance claim: a win rate says nothing about the size of wins versus losses. A strategy can have a high win rate and still lose money if its losers are large — which is why we show profit factor, drawdown and Sharpe alongside it, never win rate alone.
Honest limitations
The tracked record covers a multi-year window in specific market environments; a different period could look different. It is hypothetical: a model portfolio, not a fund you can buy. Everything here is end-of-day by design — it says nothing about intraday moves, and past patterns do not guarantee future results. We show all of this because a strategy you can only see through the marketing is not one you can trust.
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