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Week of 2026-08-17: Ichimoku leads, SuperTrend LONG drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 25 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
From Backtest to Live: The Checklist We Actually Run
Before a PRUVIQ preset earns its Verified badge it must pass a fixed battery: profitable across the full multi-year backtest window (PF ≥ 1.05), a 30% out-of-sample holdout, and a 3-window walk-forward with at least 30 trades per window. Here is that battery, rewritten as a checklist you can run on your own strategy — including the steps no tool can do for you.
The Crypto Backtesting Glossary — Every Term on a PRUVIQ Result, Defined
Every term that appears on a PRUVIQ simulator result, strategy card, or verification dossier — defined in one sentence, located on the screen, and paired with the one trap that makes people misread it.
Trading Discipline You Can Actually Enforce (Not Willpower — Structure)
Trading discipline that depends on willpower fails exactly when you need it. The structural guards we actually ship — loss limits, streak breakers, warnings you can't dismiss — and how to copy them.
How to Read Sharpe, Sortino, and Max Drawdown on a Crypto Backtest (Without Fooling Yourself)
What Sharpe, Sortino, and max drawdown actually measure in the PRUVIQ simulator, exactly how we compute them, and the three traps — short-window annualization, thin samples, and pick-the-best selection bias — that make good-looking numbers lie.
Why Most Crypto Backtests Get Funding Fees Wrong (and How We Model Them)
Three ways backtests distort perpetual funding — pro-rata approximation, 'shorts always collect', and a flat 0.01% per 8h when measured BTC windows range from 3.07% to 11.63% annualized. Here's the settlement-event model PRUVIQ switched to in August 2026 — because our old code made all three mistakes too.
Week of 2026-08-10: MACD Cross LONG leads, MACD Cross drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 26 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-08-03: Mean Reversion LONG leads, HV Squeeze drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 24 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-07-27: SuperTrend leads, Mean Reversion LONG drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 26 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Does the Donchian Channel Strategy Work in Crypto? We Backtested All 30 Exit Settings
The Donchian breakout is the system the original Turtle traders were taught. We backtested it across 50 coins with fees included and swept all 30 stop-loss and take-profit combinations. None were profitable — and the reason is not what we expected: the strategy hits its take-profit far more often than its stop-loss, and still bleeds.
Does the Heikin Ashi Strategy Work in Crypto? We Backtested All 30 Exit Settings
Heikin-Ashi candles smooth price into clean runs of colour, which is why they are recommended for spotting trends. We backtested them across 50 coins with fees included. Zero of 30 exit combinations were profitable, and the smoothing produced more trades than any of the other three strategies we graded this week — the opposite of what a cleaner chart implies.
Does the Keltner Squeeze Work in Crypto? Fewer Trades, Shallower Losses, Still Negative
The Keltner squeeze traded roughly a quarter as often as our breakout grids and lost less than the other three strategies we graded this week — and still returned zero profitable configurations out of 30. Selectivity helped. It was not enough. This strategy was subsequently killed after regime-robustness testing (2026-06-28) confirmed the SHORT edge was bear-beta, not a standalone squeeze signal.
Does Mean Reversion Work in Crypto? A 61% Win Rate That Still Lost Money
Mean reversion won 61% of its trades and not one of its 30 exit combinations was profitable. Unlike the breakout grids, this one has a clear gradient: profit factor improves monotonically as the stop widens and the target tightens — which tells you exactly what is killing it. Full data, fees included, across 50 coins.
How to Backtest a Strategy on TradingView for Free (and Where the Free Tier Stops)
TradingView's Strategy Tester will backtest a strategy without a paid plan, but two limits decide whether the result means anything: it runs one symbol per test, and full-history Deep Backtesting sits behind the paid tier. Here is the free workflow, and what to do when you hit the wall.
Does the Supertrend Strategy Work in Crypto? We Backtested All 30 Settings
Supertrend is one of the most recommended crypto indicators on YouTube and TradingView. We ran it across 50 coins and every stop-loss/take-profit combination we support — with fees and slippage included. Every single configuration lost money, including the one with a 57% win rate. Here's what the grid actually shows.
Crypto Auto-Trading: How to Verify a Bot Before You Trust It With Money
Auto-trading programs promise hands-free profits, and most of the marketing never survives contact with a full-cost backtest. We run automated strategies on a real exchange account, and this is the exact checklist we apply before any strategy touches money — the same one that made us reject most of our own candidates.
OKX Grid Bot Review From Traders Who Automate on OKX — and Skip the Grid
Most OKX grid bot reviews are written by affiliates who never traded it. We run real automated strategies on OKX through its API — and we deliberately don't run the grid bot. This review explains the mechanics, what other reviews leave out, and why we rejected the strategy class before it ever earned a backtest, so you can judge the reasoning instead of the screenshots.
Week of 2026-07-20: Mean Reversion leads, Ichimoku BOTH drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 24 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-07-13: Mean Reversion leads, Ichimoku LONG drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 27 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-07-06: MACD Cross LONG leads, HV Squeeze drops
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 29 strategies tested across top-50 coins.