BTFD Bot - Easy Swing Trading Strategies for Quality Dividend Stocks

Welcome to BTFD Bot

Here we test swing trading strategies for buying the dip in quality stocks and ETFs.

All of these strategies have been extensively backtested back to the year 2000. They have also been tested using real money.

Email comments, questions and suggestions to brett@brettb.com. A summary of the strategies I have tested is here.

Weekly, monthly and annual stock ETF performance data is updated every Saturday.

sound_detection_dog_barking This site is under construction but you're welcome to take a look around.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." — Chinese proverb

trending_up Winners - 2025 YTD
Gold Miners	arrow_drop_up 52.21
Poland	arrow_drop_up 51.02
Junior Gold Miners	arrow_drop_up 49.60
Silver Miners	arrow_drop_up 47.58
Spain	arrow_drop_up 43.24

trending_down Losers - 2025 YTD
Oil and Gas	arrow_drop_down -7.90
Turkey	arrow_drop_down -6.81
US Biotech	arrow_drop_down -5.52
US Healthcare	arrow_drop_down -5.16
US Home Construction	arrow_drop_down -4.00

Hi I'm Brett. I'm a science graduate of the University of London and also completed a PhD in Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham. I've been a software developer since 1997 and an investor in stocks since 1998. I've developed software applications for a wide range of organisations including the University of Essex and FTSE100 companies including BP and Unilever. I also spent time working for a leading City of London insurance company and have taught programming at high school and university level.

Back in 2002 I established a successful B2B software business from scratch. More recently I started a popular programming channel on YouTube.

I have built BTFDBot from scratch using a commercially available source of daily stock price data. There's no fancy AI on this site, just tried and tested simple quantitative mathematical functions that have themselves been widely used for the last 100 years.

I had the inspiration for this website after subscribing to Salty Dog Investor. Many of their subscribers have juiced their portfolio returns by following a very simple strategy of buying into whatever markets are gaining momentum, and selling out of markets that are losing momentum.

An additional source of inspiration was viewing the annual performance of UK listed investment unit trusts on the TrustNet website. I soon realised the winners in one year are not often winners in subsequent years. In fact, a year's winners often fizzle out and generate poor returns in subsequent years. An example is technology, which soared in 2020 only to significantly underperform in 2022.