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Portfolio Equity

Full portfolio balance from backtest start. Includes unrealized PnL from open positions. The highlighted region shows your currently selected time period.

Liquidity-aware curve (light blue)

The light-blue curve limits every position to 2% of its market's 30-day traded volume across the exchanges we execute on — the same limit live trading enforces. From the marked date (2024-07-16) onward, theoretical performance is limited by the traded volume of the smaller altcoins, not by the strategy. At today's volumes this limit starts to matter for portfolios above roughly $250k; the threshold moves with market volumes.

5 largest drawdowns (marked red in the chart)

  1. −24.3%  2022-11-05 → 2022-11-09 (recovered 2023-01-12)
  2. −19.1%  2020-03-02 → 2020-03-12 (recovered 2020-04-06)
  3. −17.8%  2026-05-10 → 2026-06-06 (recovered 2026-08-21)
  4. −14.7%  2021-05-20 → 2021-05-23 (recovered 2021-05-24)
  5. −12.7%  2022-05-06 → 2022-05-12 (recovered 2022-05-15)

5 largest intraday drawdowns (light red, measured against intraday lows)

  1. −30.2%  2020-03-02 → 2020-03-13 (recovered 2020-04-06)
  2. −30.0%  2021-05-20 → 2021-05-23 (recovered 2021-05-24)
  3. −29.2%  2022-11-05 → 2022-11-09 (recovered 2023-01-12)
  4. −26.0%  2021-05-18 → 2021-05-19 (recovered 2021-05-20)
  5. −25.4%  2024-04-08 → 2024-04-13 (recovered 2024-04-14)

Important: The performance figures shown are historical and provided for informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. These results do not constitute investment advice, an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any financial instrument.

Max Drawdown

Smart-HODL

3.66 3.66%

Lower drawdown pain, faster recoveries, and shorter time spent underwater.

Multi-Asset Buy & Hold

4.57%

Deep, prolonged drawdowns that keep capital trapped for months or years.

Profit

Smart-HODL

-1.19%

-$97,407

Combined profit from 34 positions across 20 strategies ($242,338,698 deployed).

Multi-Asset Buy & Hold

0.63 -0.63%

-$1,577

Multi-Asset Buy & Hold return since Nov 1, 2026 (portfolio was $248,349 at start).

Risk Acknowledgment

Cryptocurrency and digital asset trading carries a high level of risk, including the possible loss of all capital. You should carefully consider whether such trading is appropriate for your financial situation, experience, and risk tolerance. The software does not provide personalized investment, financial, tax, or legal advice and should not be relied upon as such.

Positions

Date Strategy Entry Price Close Price Close Time Qty Status PNL Chart
Oct 16, 2025 Cosmos, DD $2.261 — — 2,228,599.05 Open -23.665% -$1,930,049.24 incl. -$7,558 costs View
Nov 11, 2025 Aave, DD $203.78 — — 10,536.1 Open -9.437% -$769,681.07 incl. -$3,221 costs View
Nov 12, 2025 Solana, DD $145.42 — — 14,775.55 Open -9.987% -$814,522.30 incl. -$3,223 costs View
Nov 12, 2025 Polkadot, DD $2.619 — — 1,378,053.4 Open -28.893% -$2,356,471.31 incl. -$5,414 costs View
Jan 20, 2026 Cardano, DD $0.2772 — — 31,547,922.5 Open -35.814% -$2,920,959.05 incl. -$13,117 costs View
Mar 3, 2026 PAX Gold, L $4,567.99 — — 10,472.728 Open -64.998% -$5,301,087.56 incl. -$71,759 costs View
Oct 6, 2026 01:00 Invesco QQQ (NASDAQ-100), L 1H $758.75 — — 49,496.89 Open -60.330% -$4,920,396.34 incl. -$56,334 costs View
Oct 7, 2026 09:00 Invesco QQQ (NASDAQ-100), L2 1H $753.29 — — 50,835.18 Open -58.556% -$4,775,728.47 incl. -$57,440 costs View
Oct 7, 2026 Solana, L $111.07 — — 247,729.15 Open -63.130% -$5,148,775.90 incl. -$41,274 costs View
Oct 8, 2026 Solana, L2 $106.67 — — 84,544.1 Open -16.975% -$1,384,409.64 incl. -$13,527 costs View
Oct 10, 2026 Cosmos, L $1.753 — — 28,081,336 Open -123.309% -$10,056,853.11 incl. -$73,845 costs View
Oct 12, 2026 Aave, L $138.07 — — 231,619.7 Open -20.844% -$1,699,973.25 incl. -$47,969 costs View
Oct 13, 2026 Monero, L3 $548.94 — — 25,440.704 Open +19.388% +$1,581,283.88 incl. -$20,948 costs View
Oct 17, 2026 Polkadot, L $1.008 — — 33,176,998.45 Open -40.167% -$3,275,930.00 incl. -$50,156 costs View
Oct 22, 2026 Render, L $1.668 — — 23,258,434.635 Open -25.133% -$2,049,789.10 incl. -$58,197 costs View
Oct 29, 2026 Binance Coin, L $712.14 — — 34,755.14 Open -7.284% -$594,066.06 incl. -$37,126 costs View
Oct 29, 2026 Binance Coin, L2 $709.22 — — 17,314.975 Open -3.008% -$245,289.46 incl. -$18,420 costs View
Oct 29, 2026 Cardano, L $0.1850 — — 186,626,794.5 Open -0.847% -$69,051.91 incl. -$51,781 costs View
Oct 29, 2026 Bitcoin, L $78,238.5 $78,273.8 Nov 1, 2026 206.706 Closed -0.109% -$8,868.65 incl. -$24,259 costs View
Oct 30, 2026 Bitcoin (USDC, short hedge), S $77,962.6 $78,593.3 Nov 2, 2026 444.6302525 Closed -4.079% -$332,635.42 incl. -$51,997 costs View
Oct 30, 2026 01:00 Tron, L 1H $0.35064 — — 153,676,830.34999999 Open -61.440% -$5,010,940.41 incl. -$80,827 costs View
Oct 30, 2026 05:00 Tron, L2 1H $0.33562 — — 82,565,490.15000001 Open -17.809% -$1,452,492.10 incl. -$41,566 costs View
Nov 2, 2026 06:00 Hyperliquid, L 1H $86.269 $86.618 Nov 2, 2026 08:00 108,760.405 Closed +0.350% +$28,555.17 incl. -$14,074 costs View
Nov 2, 2026 17:00 Hyperliquid, L 1H $83.700 $84.549 Nov 2, 2026 21:00 112,266.985 Closed +1.053% +$85,892.91 incl. -$14,095 costs View
Nov 3, 2026 Bitcoin (USDC, short hedge), S $76,791.3 $77,664.4 Nov 3, 2026 501.9462485 Closed -6.086% -$496,395.61 incl. -$57,818 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 Hyperliquid, DD $76.703 — — 20,936.075 Open +0.617% +$50,344.29 incl. -$2,409 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 Sui, L $0.8567 $0.8684 Nov 6, 2026 23,850,445.125 Closed +3.171% +$258,612.46 incl. -$30,648 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 14:00 Chainlink, L 1H $10.946 $10.957 Nov 6, 2026 15:00 2,203,463.455 Closed -0.009% -$741.54 incl. -$36,178 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 14:00 Bitcoin, L 1H $77,619.4 — — 466.179 Open -9.725% -$793,126.23 incl. -$54,277 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 15:00 Hyperliquid, L 1H $77.953 $79.246 Nov 5, 2026 16:00 127,375.325 Closed +1.897% +$154,692.55 incl. -$14,894 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 15:00 Ripple, L 1H $1.2410 $1.2446 Nov 5, 2026 15:00 12,885,713.85 Closed +0.375% +$30,581.63 incl. -$23,986 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 Dogecoin, L $0.07248 — — 221,400,731.5 Open +0.060% +$4,870.82 incl. -$24,070 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 15:00 Bitcoin, L2 1H $75,592.1 — — 237.994 Open +0.951% +$77,588.53 incl. -$26,986 costs View
Nov 5, 2026 Bitcoin (USDC, short hedge), S $76,007.6 — — 561.9978395 Open -1.227% -$100,035.62 incl. -$64,074 costs View
34 positions Total: -1.19% (-$97,406.72)

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Portfolio Backtest Methodology

The portfolio view simulates all strategies trading together with shared capital — matching how live trading operates on one shared exchange balance.

Portfolio Simulation

  • • Shared Equity: All strategies share one capital pool ($1,000 per strategy). When one strategy profits, all strategies get proportionally larger allocations.
  • • Allocation Cap: Each strategy is limited to max 10% of portfolio equity per day, preventing any single strategy from dominating during bull markets.
  • • Daily Rebalancing: Allocations are recalculated each day from the total portfolio cash, matching how the live executor distributes capital across strategies.

Costs & Realistic Modeling

  • • Trading Fees: 0.05% taker fee per trade (Binance Futures VIP 0 level)
  • • Slippage: 0% on L/L2 entries (limit-style fills) and 0.05% on exits — simulates real-world market impact (0.15% round-trip cost per trade)
  • • Drawdown Tracking: Equity is tracked daily including unrealized PnL from open positions. Drawdowns reflect real underwater periods, not just realized losses.
  • • Funding Rates: Excluded. Smart-HODL trades longs during dips when funding is typically neutral or negative (favorable for longs).

Data & Execution

  • • Multi-Timeframe: Strategies use both daily (1D) and hourly (1H) candles for entry detection, matching the live executor behavior.
  • • Data Source: Binance Futures USDT perpetual contracts. Spot market data used for warmup periods before futures listing.
  • • Period: January 2020 to present (in-sample). Independently validated against 2017-2019 (out-of-sample) — see below. Each strategy activates when sufficient data becomes available for its asset.
  • • Updated: Results are recalculated nightly with the latest market data.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. Backtests are simulations and actual trading may differ due to market conditions, liquidity, and execution timing.

Out-of-Sample Validation (2017-2019)

A strategy that only works on the data it was tuned on is overfitted. To prove Smart-HODL is not overfitted to the 2020-present regime, we ran the exact same strategy parameters against an entirely independent window — 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31 — that was never used during parameter tuning. This window is dominated by the 2018 bear market, when most crypto assets lost 75-90% of their value.

Smart-HODL portfolio
+5.34%
CAGR over 2017-2019
Max drawdown: 32.27%
Win rate: 84.0%
Margin breaches: 0
Buy & Hold benchmark
−22.99%
CAGR over the same window
BTC return: −56.0%
ETH return: −81.0%
Basket avg return: −27.9%
Out-of-sample alpha
+77.8 pp
Strategy − Buy & Hold (net profit)
Universe: 10 strategies with sufficient history
Trades: 374
Settings: identical to live (2× lev, 10% cap)

What this proves: The same parameters that produce strong returns in the 2020-present regime also stayed positive — and well above passive holding — in the worst bear market crypto has ever seen. The system is regime-aware, not regime-specific.

What it does not promise: Bear-market years will look like the 5% number, not the larger headline CAGR shown in bull-market backtests. A realistic long-run expectation blends both regimes. Live results will differ from any backtest due to slippage, latency, and exchange behavior under stress.

Honest tier: We classify Smart-HODL as a solid retail-quant strategy — top of the publicly available systematic-strategy bracket, but not institutional hedge-fund tier (e.g. Renaissance, Citadel, Two Sigma). Six years of crypto-cycle data is not a substitute for multi-decade, multi-regime institutional track records, and we size and communicate accordingly.

OOS data: Binance Spot 1D + 1H. Universe restricted to symbols listed before 2019-09 with ≥120 days warmup.