Backtested Strategies Announces BTS Zones
Backtested Strategies announces BTS Zones, proprietary All Data research overlays in BTS Heatmaps that highlight selected historical multi-week periods of unusual relative strength or weakness versus the S&P 500.
Backtested Strategies has launched BTS Zones as a research layer for its interactive market seasonality heatmaps. The overlays help users flag periods where historical relative strength or weakness clustered across indexes, sectors, and industries.
BTS Heatmaps convert completed calendar-year price history into interactive weekly views of return, consistency, volatility, relative performance, data depth, and BTS Zones. The current heatmap lineup includes Major Indexes, Industry Sectors, and Key Industries. They can be accessed from the BTS Tools menu.
BTS Zones examples
The examples below show the two BTS Zones display modes in BTS Heatmaps: BTS Relative Strength Zones for selected relative-strength periods and BTS Relative Weakness Zones for selected relative-weakness periods.
BTS Relative Strength Zones
BTS Relative Weakness Zones
What BTS Zones show
BTS Zones mark All Data periods where a market group showed unusually strong or weak relative performance versus the S&P 500. The heatmap interface separates the overlay into BTS Relative Strength Zones for selected relative-strength periods and BTS Relative Weakness Zones for selected relative-weakness periods.
When a selected cell falls inside a BTS Zone, the heatmap details pane shows the average relative move versus the S&P 500 and the number of weeks in the zone. Users can review the highlighted periods alongside the heatmap’s eight metrics: Average Return, Median Return, Volatility, Return / Volatility, Positive Week Rate, Win Rate vs S&P 500, Relative Return vs S&P 500, and Sample Size.
Built for research, not prediction
BTS Zones are built for historical market research, not prediction. They can help users compare recurring seasonal behavior and relative-performance clusters, but the overlays are historical summaries, not forecasts, trading signals, or trading recommendations.
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About Backtested Strategies
Backtested Strategies (BTS), operated by Marquantex LLC, is a financial research publisher focused on evidence-based strategy research, standardized backtests, and investor research tools. Methodology is the foundation of BTS: clearly stated rules, consistent assumptions, benchmark context, and plain-English interpretation help investors evaluate market ideas without relying on hype, hindsight, or unsupported claims.
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