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Viral trading strategies, tested. Most are dead.

We run the tests the sellers skipped. Free, weekly, no signals.

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DEAD 86-87%Nº 01 11 liquidation bots: 93% win rate, 0 survivors DEAD 0.63 / 0.77 / 1.03Nº 02 Opening-range breakout: the profit was an impossible fill DEAD 0 of 21Nº 03 21 of TradingView's most-liked strategies: 0 real edges DEAD 30%Nº 04 Copying profitable meme-coin streamers: 0 of 5 exit rules won DEAD 0 of 10Nº 05 The 10,000-strategy hunt: good picks held up 5% of the time DEAD 0 of 14,336Nº 06 Our own factory: 14,336 ideas, 7 gates, 0 survivors DEAD 0 of 54Nº 07 Trading the economic number: real move, over in one minute DEAD 0.85-0.96 vs 0.85Nº 08 Buying under the biggest liquidation: no better than random DEAD 2.4 bpsNº 09 Fading the crowd into funding: right direction, PF 0.75 UNPROVEN 73 / 86 / 86%Nº 10 KDJ on Nasdaq: profitable, mostly because Nasdaq went up DEAD 1 of 3Nº 11 A weekly Nasdaq system that lost to just holding Nasdaq DEAD 1 of ~60Nº 12 'Just add a trailing stop': less profit in all 3 families UNPROVEN 1.02Nº 13 '80% win rate' prop strategies: the win rate is a costume DEAD 0.80Nº 14 EMA 9 x VWAP cross on the 3-minute: PF 0.80 as stated DEAD 3 of 9Nº 15 'Price is drawn to liquidation clusters': the sign flips DEAD 0 of 7Nº 16 A regime gate on a losing strategy: 0 of 7 beat a random gate DEAD 0 of 5Nº 17 Confluence filters: 0 of 5 crypto stacks beat random DEAD 91-94%Nº 18 'Order-book walls are support': 91-94% just get cancelled DEAD 0Nº 19 'Wide-range setups pay better': it was the year, not the setup DEAD -47.5RNº 20 Bollinger bounce on gold: 65% win rate, -47.5R net BREAK-EVEN -9.6%Nº 21 Funding carry: '40% a year' became -9.6% in 20 days DEAD -0.33 to +0.14Nº 22 Trend-following on the 7 FX majors: ten years of nothing