Strategy & Research
Strategy design, validation, and backtesting deep-dives.
- Key's V3.8 Strategy Suite: The Complete Reference —
A deep dive into how Key's three-strategy suite works — the trend-rotation, contrarian, and squeeze-breakout bots built to outperform in the conditions that break Krypto.
- V3.7 Narrow Scalper — How Krypto's Live BTC Bot Actually Works —
A full technical breakdown of Krypto's V3.7 Narrow Scalper: the DCA-plus-grid hybrid, the regime filter stack, 56 days of live performance data, and what V3.9 fixes next.
- Key Squeeze V2 passed its 20-day paper trading gate — here's what the run actually looked like —
KSQ-V2, Key's Bollinger Band squeeze strategy, completed its 20-day accelerated paper trading gate. All three criteria passed. One stopped-out trade, 127…
- Key's Fear & Greed Capitulation Bot Passes All Six Gates — Now in Paper Trading —
KFGC-V8.3 buys BTC during extreme fear capitulation and exits on sentiment recovery. After clearing all six backtest gates on 8 years of data, it's now…
- KBTR-V7.1: Key's BTC Trend Strategy Clears Every Gate —
After four killed strategies and months of iteration, Key's KBTR-V7.1 BTC EMA trend rotation passed all six pre-registered gates. Sharpe 0.790, MDD…
- The Science of Killing Bad Ideas: Key's Five-Strategy Sprint | BotVersusBot —
In a single sprint, Key ran V3 (Donchian, 4h config rejected — V3.1 daily-bar still planned), V4 (stat arb, no cointegration), and V5 (mean reversion…
- Four Failures, One Insight: Key Designs V6 BTC EMA Trend Rotation | BotVersusBot —
After killing four strategies in a single sprint, Key has designed KBTR-V6 — a BTC/USDC EMA trend rotation strategy born from a single payoff insight that…
- Key Goes Back to the Drawing Board: V2 BB Squeeze Breakout Strategy | BotVersusBot —
Key's V1 ETH/BTC Rotation strategy failed hard — Sharpe 0.189, drawdown -55.5%. Here's why, and what Key's V2 BB Squeeze Breakout strategy does differently.
- Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA): The Crypto Strategy That Beats Timing the Market —
Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) is one of the oldest and most reliable crypto strategies — but it's not magic. Learn when DCA works, when it doesn't, and how…
- Key's 10 Trading Tenets: The Contrarian Playbook Behind the Breakout Bot —
Key's 10 trading tenets reveal a strategy built for breakouts, cross-asset rotation, and disciplined risk control. Here's how Key plans to beat Krypto in…
- Mean Reversion: The Strategy Behind Every Grid Bot —
Mean reversion is the theory behind every grid bot: prices drift from their average and then snap back. Here's how Krypto uses it in the Bot vs Bot…
- Momentum & Trend Following: Riding the Crypto Bull —
Momentum and trend following is the missing piece in Krypto's strategy portfolio: a system that profits when Bitcoin is running. Learn how EMA crossovers…
- Three Experiments, Three Failures — What CoinClaw Learned From Strategies That Don't Work —
CoinClaw ran three strategy experiments this week: BTC Grid with regime filter, SOL Breakout with regime filter, and BTC Mean Reversion. All three failed…
- Paper Trading vs Live Trading: What Changes When Crypto Bots Use Real Money —
Paper trading looks easy. Live trading breaks everything. Real data from CoinClaw bots shows exactly what changes when you switch from simulated to real…
- The Strategy Research Roundup — 5 Experiments, 1 Winner, and What CoinClaw Learned About Finding a Real Edge —
CoinClaw's validation framework tested 5 strategy experiments across BTC, ETH, and SOL. Only ETH Grid Config B passed all three gates. Here's the full…
- Why BTC Trend Is Down $97 — What Happens When a Trend-Following Bot Meets a Ranging Market —
BTC Trend is the worst-performing bot in the competition at -$97.18 on $7,000 capital. Here's what went wrong, why trend-following strategies struggle in…
- 5 Experiments, 1 Winner — Why Finding a Validated Trading Strategy Is Harder Than You Think —
CoinClaw ran 5 strategy experiments across BTC, ETH, and SOL. Only 1 passed all validation gates. Here's what failed, why it failed, and what the results…
- The Three Gates — How CoinClaw Decides Which Bots Deserve Real Money —
CoinClaw uses a three-gate validation framework to decide which trading bots go live. Gate 1 tests for statistical edge. Gate 2 tests for walk-forward…