Why PRUVIQ? The Name Behind the Philosophy
2026-02-14
The Name
PRUVIQ = PRUV IT + IQ
Read it out loud: “Prove it.”
It’s a challenge disguised as a brand. In an industry built on hype, promises, and “trust me bro” — we wanted a name that demands the opposite. Don’t trust. Don’t hope. Pruv it.
The Frustration
Every day in crypto, someone posts a screenshot of a +500% backtest. A Telegram group promises “guaranteed 10x signals.” An influencer shills a token they got paid to promote.
And every day, people lose money following these promises.
The problem isn’t that these people are stupid. The problem is that there’s no culture of proof in crypto trading. Nobody asks “show me the live results.” Nobody demands “what’s the out-of-sample win rate?” Nobody says “prove it actually works.”
We got tired of that.
The Timeline
January 2026 — The Beginning
A developer starts building an automated trading system. Not to sell signals. Not to launch a token. Just to see: can a systematic approach actually make money in crypto futures?
The first version was terrible. Manual entries, no risk management, gut-feeling parameter choices.
January 10 — The First Hard Lesson
Discovered look-ahead bias in the backtesting code. The bot was using future data to make past decisions. Every backtest result was a lie. Started over from scratch.
January 25 — BB Squeeze Emerges
After testing multiple strategies, one survived: Bollinger Band Squeeze SHORT. Not because it was exciting. Because it was the only one that showed a statistical edge across 500+ coins and 2+ years of data.
January 31 — The $14,000 Lesson
A “momentum breakout” strategy backtested at +400%. Deployed it live. Lost $14,115 in weeks. The cause? A single line of code using the wrong candle index. One line. Fourteen thousand dollars.
That day, a rule was written:
“If you can’t prove it survives out-of-sample, don’t trade it.”
February 2026 — Strategies Start Dying
- Momentum LONG: -$14,115. Killed.
- BB Squeeze LONG: -$26. Killed.
- HV Squeeze: No edge vs BB Squeeze. Abandoned.
- ATR Breakout: Didn’t outperform. Shelved.
Four strategies tested. Three killed. One survived. That’s the process.
February 5 — SHORT ONLY
After 6 independent analyses confirmed it, the system went SHORT-only. Not because we “believe in shorting.” Because it was the only direction with a proven, positive expected value.
February 11 — Continuous Evolution
New discoveries kept coming. Partial fill aggregation bugs. LIMIT IOC order optimization. Income API discrepancies. Each one found, fixed, and documented.
The strategy evolved from v0.5 to v1.6 in 32 days. Not through guessing — through evidence.
February 14 — The Biggest Lesson
Six expert agents independently recommended a “BTC Regime Filter” as the top priority improvement. Unanimous agreement. Seemed obvious.
We backtested it. All four filter variants failed. The experts’ intuition was wrong. The data was right.
That moment crystallized everything PRUVIQ stands for:
Expert intuition < Empirical evidence. Always.
The Philosophy in Practice
PRUVIQ isn’t a product. It’s a constraint:
- Every claim must have data behind it. No “we believe” — only “we tested.”
- Every failure is published. The Strategy Graveyard is as important as the live strategy.
- Every decision is reversible. If tomorrow’s data says SHORT is dead, we kill it. No ego.
- The system evolves. What runs today is not what ran last week. That’s the point.
Why It Matters
In a market where:
- 90% of leveraged traders lose money
- Most “algo trading” projects are backtest screenshots
- Signal groups evaporate after a losing streak
- Nobody publishes their losses
PRUVIQ exists to ask one question:
Can you prove it?
If you can’t — don’t trade it. Don’t sell it. Don’t promote it.
If you can — show the evidence. All of it. Including the ugly parts.
That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy.
PRUVIQ is an educational and research project. Not financial advice.