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Profitable web3 traders aren't better at reading charts.
We tested tokens across 27 blockchains. Every strategy FAILED even a null at zero cost
Rug pulls. Dev wallets. Insider information. That's where their wins are
The edge is real,
It's just illegal
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Does a portfolio beat the sum of its strategies?
80 strategies on 105 coins, every signal funded on its own. Versus the same signals, but in one account.
1.2 million signals, 3 years out of sample, costs included.
They differ more than you may expect
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If you want to gamble, where should you go?
Memecoin "trading"? Prediction markets? Casino?
I tracked 44 million memecoin trades, 21 million Polymarket bets, and the odds of the top online casino games.
Do what you must with this information.
Does trading more coins actually make you more money?
I ran the same strategies on 6 coins, then 15, then 30. Changing nothing else
91,277 trades, every fee, spread and funding charged
One formula explains the whole picture
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This is why you should not trust anyone who posts strategies on here.
A strategy can look great with a high profit factor and winrate,
But nobody mentions trial count, DSR, FDR or OOS performance...
This is how a great backtest can fool you.
Learn the basics of statistics.
How much information do you miss out by only trading OHLCV candles?
One minute of a liquid US stock is thousands of trades. A candle keeps 5 numbers
I kept all the data, and compared to regular charts, forecasting the same returns
Is more data better?
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Support and resistance levels mean nothing.
On a random chart, plot RANDOM lines,
and it WILL look like valid levels.
Why?
Support and resistance are nothing but confirmation bias.
All of the lines in the video are random.
Test it for yourself, link in the comments.
Simulate it yourself, you just have to click one button.
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Would you trade a strategy you cannot explain?
Most people say no, then trade one anyway
So I tested it. Strategies written from a reason against strategies found by searching, same budget, 60 coins, 18 quarters
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Most traders lose for a reason you can calculate
Run 50,000 strategies with no skill at all and the luckiest still shows a Sharpe of 2.72.
Tested empirically, with every fee, spread and funding charged, all 92,500
That's the deflated sharpe ratio.
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What is the best time to trade a coin after it's listed on a major exchange?
Seven age buckets across the first year, each priced on volatility, funding, spread, depth and volume
Measured on 832 contracts, 15.3M ledger rows.
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Is machine learning enough to make you a good trader?
30,960 models searched, each tested against a null
hypothesis for statistical significance.
8,400 rule-instrument pairs, all losing strategies.
Tested in crypto and US equities.
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How easy is it to make money market making in crypto?
Post a buy, post a sell, pocket the gap.
Bots do it all day
I simulated 125M fills on Bybit, Binance and Hyperliquid with their own buy/sell records
It's not what the bot sellers promise
Full paper papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
150,000 BTC candles, 10 strategies, 28 walk-forward windows, 7.2 seconds
Then the same 20,137 trades through 4 engines: mine 0.46s, 570x faster than the second best. Same fills
Fully open sourced.
Backtest, optimize, stress test, all in one repo
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Github link
Rust version github.com/DaruFinance/quant…
Python version github.com/DaruFinance/quant…
Your strategies have a shape. Almost nobody trades it.
Turn how each pair moves together into a distance and they fall into a map: crowded middle, thin rim.
The shape of your strategies might contain valid information you never considered using.
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You have a strategy, you get into drawdown, you change your risk...
Is it actually a good idea to change a strategy's risk based on it's performance?
Well, I answered it.
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Which matters more?
The strategy you trade, or the coin you trade?
Tested with 16,826 out of sample trades
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One number decides your loss when a DeFi loan is liquidated
For staked ETH, public number: 6%. Real one: 1%
The difference between a small loss and a big one
Pulled from the contract, not a dashboard
The paper shows how much room that leaves
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I'm grateful to @Bitquery_io and @coingecko for providing API access in support of this research. Thank you for making this work possible.
Most futures quant models guess which side actually traded.
On CME the tick rule gets 16.6-39.3% of trades wrong.
In my data the exchange ships the true flag
So I signed 12.4M trades right and re-ran the maker P&L
You will be surprised at the results
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