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Week of 2026-10-05: Mean Reversion LONG leads, MA Cross drops
2026-10-053 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 60 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
How to Check Whether a Crypto Strategy Is Actually Verified — Before You (or Your AI Agent) Trade It
2026-09-3013 min read
"Verified" is a word anyone can put on a screenshot. Seven questions that separate a checkable result from a claim: out-of-sample, real costs, sample size, forward records, pre-registration with timestamps, re-runs, and who gets paid.
Week of 2026-09-28: ADX Trend LONG leads, ADX Trend 4H drops
2026-09-283 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 65 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-09-21: MACD Cross LONG leads, HV Squeeze drops
2026-09-213 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 31 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-09-14: MACD Cross leads, ADX Trend LONG drops
2026-09-143 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 27 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-09-07: Mean Reversion LONG leads, ADX Trend drops
2026-09-07Updated 2026-09-293 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 29 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
What Is a Crypto Trade? Order, Position, Exit — and the Number That Comes Out
2026-09-037 min read
A trade is four things in sequence: an instruction to the order book, an exposure while it is open, a second instruction that closes it, and one number after costs. What each part is, and what a trade means on this site.
Week of 2026-08-31: Mean Reversion LONG leads, Keltner Squeeze LONG drops
2026-08-31Updated 2026-09-293 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 27 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
How We Decide a Strategy Is Dead
2026-08-307 min read
Four checks that have actually killed strategies on this site — cost accounting, a full parameter sweep, expectancy, and regime attribution. Each one links to the post where it happened.
What Is a Crypto Coin? The Part Most Guides Skip
2026-08-295 min read
A coin is a balance on a shared ledger. What that means, what it does not mean, and why it decides everything you can test later.
What Is a Crypto Exchange? The Order Book Behind Every Price
2026-08-295 min read
A centralized crypto exchange is a queue of offers and a rule for matching them. Understanding that queue explains where price comes from, what you actually own, and what the data on this site is.
Week of 2026-08-24: MACD Cross LONG leads, Donchian Breakout drops
2026-08-24Updated 2026-09-294 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 32 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-08-17: Ichimoku leads, SuperTrend LONG drops
2026-08-17Updated 2026-09-293 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 25 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
From Backtest to Live: The Checklist We Actually Run
2026-08-156 min read
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
2026-08-1517 min read
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)
2026-08-158 min read
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)
2026-08-159 min read
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)
2026-08-154 min read
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
2026-08-10Updated 2026-09-292 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 26 strategies tested across top-50 coins.
Week of 2026-08-03: Mean Reversion LONG leads, HV Squeeze drops
2026-08-03Updated 2026-09-293 min read
Weekly crypto strategy rankings — 24 strategies tested across top-50 coins.