Browse the strategies
The Strategies page lists every published backtest, sorted into folders by market. Here's how to find your way through it without drowning in numbers.
Click Strategies in the top bar and you land on a grid of folders. Each folder holds the strategies for one market, such as BTC (Bitcoin), ETH (Ethereum) or gold, with a count on the tile. A "ticker" is simply the short code a market trades under, like BTC and ETH, or XAU for gold and SPX for the S&P 500.
[One tile per market, with its number of strategies. All Strategies puts every one of them in a single list.]
If you don't know where to start, start with BTC. BTC has the longest history here (back to 2015), so its strategies have been through several booms and crashes, and their numbers rest on the most evidence. Markets and asset classes explains what each of the other folders holds, including the less obvious ones like Crypto Indexes, Multi-Ticker and DCA.
Inside a folder
A folder is a page of strategy cards (24 per page) with a row of controls on top. Most of them do what you'd expect; a few deserve a word.
[1. back to the folders, 2. search, 3. category, 4. sort, 5. window pills, 6. apply your own dates, 7. compare, 8. page counter.]
Search matches words in a strategy's name and description as you type, so "Renko" or "momentum" works as well as a name.
Category groups strategies by the kind of signal they read: trend follows the direction of price, momentum the speed of moves, volatility how wildly prices swing, volume how much is traded, and consensus is a vote among several of the others. None of these is a risk label. A trend strategy can fall as hard as a momentum one; the card's Max DD tells you how deep each one has actually fallen.
Sort by puts the cards in order by a number, Total return by default, and Order flips between high-to-low and low-to-high. Total return is a fun first look but a poor way to choose, because it mostly rewards strategies that have been around longest in the fastest-rising market. Sorting by Max drawdown low-to-high, or by Calmar, is usually more telling. Choosing strategies to follow has a short routine for this.
Some folders show extra filters where they're useful: Pair in folders with several markets, and Asset class (Crypto, Stocks or All (multi)). Stocks and Crypto Indexes also show a row of Tickers tiles and Multi-Ticker a row of Pairs tiles; click one to see just that market, click it again to see them all.
Picking a window
By default each card's numbers cover the whole history, from 2015 (or from the day the market's data starts) up to the most recent data you can see. The line under the controls says which period you're looking at.
The pills 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, 8Y and All recalculate every card's numbers over the last 1, 3, 5 or 8 years, straight away. For a custom period, fill in From and To and click Apply dates; Reset dates takes you back.
This is worth doing. A strategy that looks brilliant over eleven years can look ordinary over the last three, and the recent stretch is often closer to the market you'd actually be trading in.
The window changes the numbers on every card, but not the little chart. The mini chart always shows the last two to three years of price, whatever window you pick. The line under the controls reminds you of this once you've applied a window.
On the free version
Everything on the Strategies page is open without an account. The only difference is time: the numbers stop at the free cutoff, three months back. The line under the controls reads, for example, "Metrics cover 2015 to 23 Jul 2026, where the free version ends", and each card carries a small note saying the same. Members see "Metrics cover 2015 to today."
That's also why the same strategy can show slightly different numbers in different places. The cards on the Home page use the full history up to today, so Von Lohengramm T7 - BTCUSD shows 120% a year and 16 trades there. In the BTC folder on the free version it shows 119.2% and 15 trades, because the sixteenth trade happened after the cutoff. Neither is wrong; they cover different periods. See Free and paid access.
Small things that help
- Your search, filters, sort and window are kept in the page address. Open a strategy, press the back arrow, and you're back in the same list with the same settings. You can bookmark or share that address too.
- Members' bookmarked strategies always sit at the top of a folder, whatever the sort. See Bookmarks.
- If you see "No strategies match these filters", one of the filters is ruling everything out. Set them back to All or clear the search.