The same strategy made +359% and −46%. The only difference was the day I started.
Golden Cross, 50/200 SMA, 3x long BTCUSDT perp, real Binance funding charged. Identical rules, identical data, all four running to today. The only variable is when you switched it on.
Started 2019: +359% Started 2020: −16% Started 2022: +77% Started 2024: −46%
405 points of spread, and not one line of the strategy changed.
This is the number nobody publishes. When someone shows you a backtest, they have already chosen the start date — and they chose it after seeing the result. Move it by a year and the same rules go from a fortune to a hole.
It isn't luck evening out over time, either. The 2019 run caught one enormous trend early enough that it paid for everything after. The 2024 run took 2 trades and never got that gift.
What to do about it: run your rules from several start dates before you believe any of them. If the answer only works from one particular Tuesday, it isn't an edge — it's a coincidence with good marketing.
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Same strategy. Three coins. Two accounts went to zero.
My last post showed what real funding does to a Golden Cross on BTC. The obvious next question: does the strategy work, or does BTC just go up?
So I ran the identical rules on ETH and SOL. Same 50/200 SMA cross, same 3x long, same window, real Binance funding charged. All three start on the same day, so nobody gets a head start.
BTC: −16% — survived, but with an 87% drawdown ETH: −99.9% — liquidated 3 Feb 2025 SOL: −100% — liquidated twice, the first time on its opening trade
Five trades each. Identical rules. One account limps out, two are gone.
Now drop the leverage to 1x and nothing gets liquidated: BTC +21%, ETH −38%, SOL +2%. Over six years. That's the actual edge — roughly nothing. 3x didn't amplify an edge. It just moved the liquidation price close enough to touch.
If a strategy only survives on the coin you built it on, you didn't find an edge. You fitted a chart.
Two limitations before anyone else says them: five trades is a tiny sample, and SOL's first entry doesn't come until 2023, because a 200-day SMA needs 200 days and SOL listed late.
And yes — BTC made +359% in my last post and −16% here. Same rules, same coin, same engine. The only difference is the start date: 2019 instead of 2020.
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I ran the Golden Cross (50/200 SMA) on BTCUSDT perps. 3x long. Binance data, Sept 2019 → today. Ignoring funding: +2,003% Charging real Binance funding: +359% Same strategy. Same entries. Same exits. Same six trades. The gap is $96,561 in funding payments. Why it's so big: BTCUSDT funding has averaged 0.0106% per 8h settlement since 2019 — about 11.6% a year. Sounds like nothing. At 3x leverage on full equity that's roughly 35% of your account per year, and the Golden Cross holds for months at a time. You pay rent on the position the entire time you're right. It hits the downside too. Max drawdown goes from −81.6% to −90.4%. Funding doesn't just shave the top off your returns, it digs the hole deeper. Most backtest tools treat a perp like spot. No funding, no liquidation price, no margin mechanics. Then people go live at 3x and can't work out where the money went. Two caveats before anyone accuses me of selling a dream: six trades is a tiny sample, and a −90% drawdownld trade. That's the point. This is what the honest version looks like. I built a no-code backtester that charges the real funding history from the exchange you pick. Free to try check comments 👇 #BTC #Bianace
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The system uses multiple confirmations before entering trades, including:
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Remember $YZY ? Everyone was shouting about huge pumps back then too. And where is it now? Exactly.
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