See the strategy in action
Five qualifying dividend growers, equal weights and $10,000 initial capital. The 2025 run returned 44.80% versus the stored SPY baseline's 33.99%, with 24.33% maximum drawdown. The longer 2014 run lagged SPY; inspect all three periods below.
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2. Inspect the draft
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3. Run your own test
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Compare all three completed backtests
Inspect all periods and trading costs
This saved dividend portfolio has three completed historical periods. The same rules ran on October 8, 2026; each run starts with $10,000, reinvests dividends, permits fractional shares and charges 0.1% of stock transaction notional.
The strategy selects the five largest companies by market value among the SP500 universe that meet its ten-year consecutive dividend-increase test, gives each equal weight and targets 100% deployment. Rebalancing triggers when portfolio value equals initial value or at least 30 days have passed since a filled buy. Inspect the returned holdings and timestamps to see the actual rebalance cadence.
All three windows appear below. The 2014 window returned less than SPY. To explore the stock selection, follow the rebalance events and the companies returned by each universe query at its decision time.
The stored SPY baseline invests the full initial capital in fractional shares and reinvests dividends with no candidate commissions. The strategy pays 0.1% stock transaction fees and changes its holdings. Curves show recorded daily closes; the reported maximum drawdown uses the engine's observations. Compare fees, holdings and exposure alongside each return.
| 2025-01-02 | 44.80% | 33.99% | 24.33% | 49 | $24.15 |
| 2022-01-03 | 134.94% | 73.13% | 24.16% | 153 | $103.47 |
| 2014-01-02 | 340.90% | 419.23% | 24.16% | 422 | $331.98 |
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These are the rules used in the completed backtests. NexusTrade validated this review configuration on October 10. The Aurora action above opens this exact configuration for review. Loading it starts no backtest and activates no trading.
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