BTFD Bot Site Updates

December 2025

• Added Super-Duper Oversold buy signals. These are Super Oversold indicators where the parent signal was either a Rate of Change buy signal or a 52 Week Low. Extensive backtesting has demonstrated that Super-Duper Oversold buy signals have a significantly higher win rate. They're much less common than the signals generated by the regular Super Oversold algorithm.
• Rate of Change signals are now being correctly inserted when new stocks are added to the site.
• Stock chart pages now show the maximum drawdown reached for a particular oversold trading strategy.
• There's now a larger pool of inspirational trading quotes that appear on the home page.
• Stock page HTML titles have now been reworked to make it easier to identify stocks when multiple browser tabs are open.
• The real money results page has been updated with my latest results and the improvements I have made to my actual trading strategy.
• Added a top menu link to the list of stocks page.
• Revised the introduction on the buy signals page.
• Added a large gaps down trading strategy video to the swing trading strategies page.
• Stock pages now display hypothetical return and CAGR calculations for the selected specific strategy and target percentage return.
• The original Rate of Change strategy has been reinstated and is now called Mega Dump. Details are on the swing trading strategies page.
• The 5th December stock splits for the S&P 500 sector ETFs have been completed.
• BTFDBot now supports monthly swing trading strategies as well as the existing daily/weekly trading strategies.
• Added the 10 Month SMA Double Cross trading strategy.
• Added monthly stock chart pages to show the results of backtesting monthly swing trading strategies.
• Super Oversold signals will now always appear on charts if they have been featured on the home page.
• Added the new backtester tool for checking the profitability of different strategies for specific years.
• Links to daily/weekly stock pages from signals will now cause the stock page to default to the specific signal from that link.
• The algorithm for Williams%R weekly signals has been rebuilt following the discovery of some rogue signals. It now generates from the daily rather than the weekly chart data and will now only be triggered if the value of the oscillator falls below -95 rather than -90 as previously. Note that my real money testing has suggested this indicator has somewhat disappointing results and I have already begun to phase out its use in my live money tests.
• A 7.5% profit point has been added to entry signals. My live money tests have shown that a 6% profit target is easily achiveable in place of a 5% profit target. 7.5% will lead to a significantly higher expectancy with minimal increase in risk.
• Tidied stock page to make it easier to display the chart and radio buttons without needing to scroll up and down.
• Added the percentage win rate to the stock charts pages.
• Changed chart markers from labels to triangles on the monthly stock charts pages so that position entries and exits are easier to see.
• The home page Fear Index's algorithm has been modified. It should now give an even greater assessment of general market sentiment.
• Changed icon used for the buy signals on the stocks pages. Breakeven trades are now shown in orange rather than yellow.
• Signals page table title is now being correctly displayed if the type of signal is anything other than 52 Week Lows.
• Implemented the ServiceNow stock split.
• Added the 10 month simple moving average (SMA) trendline to the monthly stock charts.
• Given the current interest in silver, the list of Exchange Traded Funds page now lists selected Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs).
• Monthly stock chart pages now display a table of trade outcomes.
• Monthly buy signal data has been rebuilt to remove duplicate open trades.
• Added a monthly buy signals page. It also shows the longer term monthly trades that are currently in progress.
• 52 week lows standardised on the lowest point in the last 252 trading days. The exact number of days doesn't make much of a difference but now BTFDBot is standardised and should give similar signals to other trading sites.
• Fixed a few tickers with missing monthly buy signal data.
• Added a monthly backtester tool for checking the profitability of long term monthly trading strategies for specific years.
• Added some new stocks to the site.
• Fixed the price label on breakeven or losing trades on monthly chart labels.
• Added tech stock only and other sector specific options to the backtesters.
• Revised the Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) section on the swing trading strategy page.
• Fixed monthly chart trade labels so the label will now appear on the final open trade for a particular stock.

November 2025

• BTFDBot now has a YouTube channel.
• The list of recent buy signals on the home page has now been fixed. Recent signals will now appear.
• The HTML page titles are now rendering correctly.
• Charts are now much faster to load because they are now using weekly data points.
• Weekly close prices are now correct. This probably only affected the display of chart candlestick data.
• 20% Drop Signals data has now been regenerated. Older signals will now be displayed on the stock charts.
• 20% Drop Signals are now listed on the home page and on stock charts. See the swing trading strategies page for an explanation of what this signal is and if it is effective.
• All of the Signals data has now been regenerated. I've also started associating 20% Drop Signals with their parent Signal.
• 20% Drop Signals on stock charts now show which parent signal type triggered them.
• 20% Drop Signals now record the date their parent signal was triggered.
• 20% Drop Signals are now prioritised on the home page. They perform well in backtests (so far...).
• BTFDBot now has a SubStack.
• There is a new list of Exchange Traded Funds page.
• 20% Drop Signals have now been renamed to Super Oversold.
• The swing trading strategies page has been revised after backtesting has demonstrated that the Super Oversold strategy is potentially a big winner.
• The current week's signals are now appearing on the stock charts.
• Stock charts now display the date range selector.
• 30 new Dividend Champion stocks have been added to the index.
• The Magnificent 7 (Mag7) have now been added to the index: Alphabet (Google), Apple, Amazon, Meta Platforms (Facebook), Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla.
• The home page alerts have been reinstated.
• Updated the following tickers due to stock splits: NEE, WMT, MKC.
• The plotting of buy signals on the charts has been improved. The signals are now appearing on the correct weekly candle. The signal will now be displayed as the lower of the weekly open and close price. Note that the signal will not always appear at the buy price but the underlying calculations are correct. The charts use weekly candles in order to speed up their performance. The backtester also removes very long candle wicks and will only buy at a price between a daily open and close. It does not buy candle wicks because it is sometimes difficult or even impossible to actually buy stocks at these prices, especially if you're a retail trader using basic brokers. So this has resulted in more accurate backtests but slightly less accurate charts.
• Stock charts are now zoomed out by default.
• Stock details pages now show the expectancy score for the specific entry signal type and profit target.
• Signal labels on stock charts now display the percentage profit or loss.
• Another batch of high quality US dividend stocks have been added to the index.

August 2025

• Added the stocks page which lists all of the stocks and ETFs featured on this site.
• Stocks now have a rebuilt main page to show their stock chart together with backtesting results for various swing trading buy signals. The site is now using Microsoft Blazor which means the charts are now a lot quicker and it's also possible to change the strategy and the swing trading profit point.
• The swing trading strategies page now lists all of the main strategies I have backtested as well as tested with real money.
• The stocks database has been populated with most of the US Dividend Kings. These stocks can be very attractive swing trading stocks due to the high probability of their stock prices bouncing from oversold conditions.
• Added the results page which summarises my real money swing trade testing results.
• There are now icons in tables to show the properties of particular stocks and ETFs.
• Stock pages now have a table showing a summary of the backtest results for the current entry signal being viewed.