The record.

Every strategy we run, in the same order each time: what is on right now, then how that strategy has actually done. Drawdowns included.

Momentum rotation

Holding now
  • HACKHOLD@ 121.89stop 112.47up 45% over 12 months
  • XBIHOLD@ 159.39stop 147.61up 30% over 12 months
  • EWSHOLD@ 33.48stop 32.472up 25% over 12 months
  • EWTHOLD@ 107.5stop 100.46up 74% over 12 months
  • GREKHOLD@ 82.254stop 79.257up 28% over 12 months

5 positions, chosen from 54 that qualified out of 110 watched.

Compounds at 10.1% a year over the full simulation.

Last 12 months 28.3% at Sharpe 1.59 · worst drawdown 48%.

Yes, we show the worst drawdown. The long history is the honest shape of momentum; the recent year is the shine.

2011-082026-08 · growth of 1 across the full simulation — the engine’s own curve, not a re-computation×21.0 · worst drawdown −26%

Trend following

On now
  • USDCADSHORT@ 1.4185stop 1.4132in the tradesince 2026-07-02
  • EURCADSHORT@ 1.6122stop 1.6147in the tradesince 2026-08-10
  • XAUUSDBUY STOP@ 4,866.3stop 4,363.9order waiting
  • USDJPYSELL STOP@ 146.17stop 154.37order waiting
  • GBPAUDBUY STOP@ 1.9777stop 1.9367order waiting
  • SILVERBUY STOP@ 79.546stop 73.084order waiting

1,019 trades graded · 30% of them won, and the typical one lost 0.09× the amount risked.

With this many trades the true win rate could still sit anywhere between 27% and 33%.

The typical trade here loses money; the average is carried by a few large winners. That is what trend following is, and why the losers are cut quickly and the winners held.

2000-012026-08 · cumulative result in R — historical replay through today, graded net of costs+173.6R · worst run −21.0R

Fixed-target breakout

Orders working
  • XAUUSDBUY STOP@ 4,510stop 4,446.6target 4,668.5since 2026-08-14
  • XAUUSDSELL STOP@ 4,051.7stop 4,115.1target 3,893.2since 2026-08-14
  • XAGUSDBUY STOP@ 67stop 65.48target 71.56since 2026-08-14
  • XAGUSDSELL STOP@ 56.7stop 58.22target 52.14since 2026-08-14
  • BTCUSDBUY STOP@ 66,914stop 65,504.7target 71,142since 2026-08-14
  • BTCUSDSELL STOP@ 62,192stop 63,601.3target 57,963.9since 2026-08-14

Each instrument shows both sides of one bracket — whichever fills, the other is cancelled. On the 9.4-year validation history a bracket filled roughly once every 10 days per instrument — most days these stand untouched, and that is the strategy working, not failing.

Compounds at 34.4% a year over 9.4 years.

1,024 trades · worst drawdown 18.0%.

Live since 2026-03 it has taken 40 trades and is down 3.9% — a small forward sample, and so far a losing one. We show it because a backtest that never meets its forward record is marketing.

2013-012026-07 · validation panel — 1,376 graded trades, 2013→+384.7R · worst run −19.5R
2024-102026-08 · live forward segment — small sample, shown at the same scale of honesty+6.8R · worst run −15.0R

N-Pattern

On now
  • DOGESHORT@ 0.06939stop 0.070861hsince 2026-08-14
  • BCHSHORT@ 204.58stop 207.221hsince 2026-08-14
  • FILSHORT@ 0.66228stop 0.680431hsince 2026-08-14
  • UNISHORT@ 3.4504stop 3.53071hsince 2026-08-14
  • LTCSHORT@ 44.611stop 45.0291hsince 2026-08-14
  • WIFSHORT@ 0.1355stop 0.140011hsince 2026-08-14
  • ETHSHORT@ 1,869stop 1,928.74hsince 2026-08-14
  • SUISHORT@ 0.67916stop 0.691151hsince 2026-08-14

Showing 8 of 98 open positions — this book runs many small ones at once.

35 trades graded · 66% of them won, and the typical one gained 0.23× the amount risked.

With this many trades the true win rate could still sit anywhere between 49% and 79%.

Many positions, each small. The book is judged on the average across all of them, not on any one.

2003-022026-08 · cumulative result in R — the post-fix honest sample only+3.1R · worst run −2.6R

Funding carry

Positioned in
  • BTCUSDTCARRY
  • ETHUSDTCARRY
  • SOLUSDTCARRY

Returned 16.5% a year net of costs over 6.4 years, with a worst drawdown of 0.9%.

The only strategy on this page that has passed every gate we apply.

The rate has since collapsed: bitcoin funding averaged 12.9% a year across the full history but only 3.0% over the last twelve months. Forward record 23 of the 30 we require.

Orders we published

78 orders posted publicly so far · 1 reached their trigger and traded (0 of them profitable).

Each was published in a dated edition that is kept exactly as it went out — recently 2026-08-14 · 2026-08-13 · 2026-08-12 · 2026-08-11 · 2026-08-10 · 2026-08-09. Each edition links back and forward through the rest.

Two counters, two scopes: the 78 above counts every distinct order card ever published here; separately, the daily grader has scored 25 flagship levels day by day (25 expired untouched) — that smaller number is the one the home page quotes.

We grade our own forecasts

Since 2026-07-24: 733 graded · directional hit rate 54.6% · probability score 0.246 against a coin-flip baseline of 0.250 (lower is better) · expected-move bands caught 74% of realized moves, where perfect calibration scores 68.3% — catching more than that means our bands are running wider than they should.

Ahead of the coin-flip baseline so far — early, and shown either way. It updates daily and the history is append-only — a scorecard that only appears when flattering is marketing, not a record.

Liquidity providing

195 completed positions, averaging 7.0 hours each. Value lost to price moving out of range consumed 74% of every fee dollar collected.

Advertised fee yields show only one side of that race. We never name the pools we are in: fees are shared pro-rata, so pointing readers into the same small pools would dilute them and us.

All numbers are net of modelled costs, stop-first on ambiguous bars, misses included. Paper books are labelled by sample; nothing here is promoted on a backtest alone. How grading works · Today's brief. We publish what each strategy holds and how it has performed, not how it decides. Educational information, not financial advice.
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