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What the 50 Top Coins Won't Show You

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We ran our RSI/SMA strategy across the entire Binance USDT spot universe — 269 assets instead of 50. The picture that emerges is uncomfortable.

BacktestingCryptoRSI+4
Apr 30, 20261 min
★ FeaturedStrategy-Reports

Strategy Reports: Why Running One Strategy Across 50 Coins Tells You More Than Running It on One

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New product category on Backtesting Arena. Plus: a first look at the RSI/SMA report covering 50 Binance pairs.

strategy-reportsproductrsi-sma+2
Apr 25, 20261 min
Tools

When Do Grid Trading Bots Actually Work? Two Real BTC Backtests from 2024 and 2025/2026

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Grid bots promise profit from sideways markets — but without the right range they fail. We show with two real BTC backtests (2024 and 2025) when grid wins, and when buy-and-hold dominates.

Grid TradingBacktestingKuCoin+4
May 4, 20261 min
Strategy

Buy Now or Wait for the Dip? The Math Behind the Decision

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Buy now or wait for the dip? Both camps believe in rising prices — yet pursue opposite strategies. An expected-value calculation reveals which one actually wins, and under which conditions the math flips.

StrategieErwartungswertRisikomanagement+4
May 4, 20261 min
Market Structure

The Vanishing Float: Why Bitcoin Is Heading Into Its Largest Liquidity Squeeze Ever

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Long-Term Holders hold 71% of all Bitcoin. ETFs and Treasury Companies buy price-inelastically. What happens when this inelastic demand meets a structurally shrinking float?

BitcoinLong-Term HolderFloat+5
May 2, 20261 min
Market Structure

Park's Gamma Thesis: What an IBIT-Led Volatility Rally Actually Requires

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Bitwise's Jeff Park predicts an IBIT-led volatility rally. We dissect his argument — and examine what would actually need to happen for the thesis to play out.

BitcoinOptionenIBIT+4
Apr 30, 20261 min
Options

IBIT Options Overtake Deribit — What This Means for Max Pain

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On April 25, options on BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF IBIT held more open interest than Deribit for the first time. Why this moment changes what the classic Max Pain calculation actually tells us — and how we plan to handle it in our tooling.

BitcoinOptionsMax Pain+3
Apr 30, 20261 min
Analysis

Gold's Three Waves, Bitcoin's Four — And Why the Fifth Changes Everything

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Gold has had three great bull waves since 1971. Bitcoin has run through four in just 17 years. The fifth is starting now — and it has no precedent.

macrobitcoingold+6
Apr 29, 20261 min
Backtesting

Tokenized Commodities — What Backtesters Should Know About SLVon, USOon, and COPXon

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Tokenized commodities are a $5.3B market — almost entirely gold. But silver, oil, and copper on-chain are now growing fast. What that technically means — and why these tokens can't (yet) be backtested like a classic ETF.

RWATokenisierungCommodities+3
Apr 28, 20261 min
Analysis

The End of the CME Gap — What Changes on May 29, 2026

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On May 29, CME goes 24/7 for crypto futures. What the gap phenomenon really was, why it worked — and how weekend volatility, Sunday pumps, and day-of-week strategies are about to shift.

CMEBitcoinMarktstruktur+3
Apr 27, 20261 min
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