Show HN: We track the performance of 1400 crypto strategies Here are the results

5 points by herve76 4 years ago | 7 comments

Two years ago, I started this side project https://bitcoinvsalts.com as an open forward testing platform for crypto. Today this platform tracks more than 1400 crypto trading strategies. As a result, we rank their performance in real time and now we start selling monthly subscriptions to automatically trade some of those algorithms. Please let me know what do you think of this project and contact me at support@bitcoinvsalts.com if you think you could help me in creating a business for it.

Bostonian 4 years ago |

Excuse me for sounding a bit cynical, but if you study 1400 distinct strategies on volatile assets such as crypto, some are bound to do well, but that does not mean they will do well going forward. If you created a real money portfolio invested in the strategies you think are best and tracked its performance, and it did well, that would be more convincing.

herve76 4 years ago | |

That's the reason, the platform offers different time interval for our ranking.

Bostonian 4 years ago | | |

OK, but what time interval do you think should be used in selecting strategies? If it is one year, then I suggest a real-time experiment where once a month, the top N strategies over the last year are identified and traded for a month. It would be interesting to see how this did in real time.

Bostonian 4 years ago |

As your site says, "There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading crypto." Could you show either daily or annualized standard deviations of returns alongside the historical cumulative return that is now shown? You could also show the Sharpe ratio.

herve76 4 years ago | |

That's a great idea. We will add it to the To Do.

herve76 4 years ago |

https://bitcoinvsalts.com