Markets and asset classes

The Strategies page is sorted into folders by market. Here's what each one holds, why some markets have far less history than others, and how the same strategies are grouped into classes once you build a portfolio.

Every strategy trades exactly one market, and the folders on the Strategies page are sorted by that market. A few folders hold something a little different: whole-market indexes, strategies that read two markets at once, and plans that buy in steps.

[Each tile is a market or group, with its number of strategies.]

All Strategies puts every strategy in a single list, with every filter available.

Why so much crypto?

Slow trend rules suit crypto well: it moves in long, violent swings that are worth stepping out of. Stocks and gold have fewer strategies, and there's no folder for a world index fund or individual shares. If you're used to ETFs: SOXX is a fund you can buy at most brokers, while SPX is the S&P 500 index itself, which you'd hold through a fund that tracks it. HYPE and VVV are much smaller coins, and not every exchange lists them.

Strategies that borrow BTC's chart

In the ETH, SOL, HYPE, VVV and Crypto Indexes folders, many names start with (BTC), such as (BTC) God Emperor T9 - ETHUSD. These read BTC's chart to decide when to be in or out, but what they hold is the market after the dash, here ETH.

The reasoning is that BTC usually leads the rest of crypto. When BTC's trend breaks, smaller coins tend to fall harder and faster, and their own charts are noisier, so BTC's trend can be a calmer guide. The Strategies page has both kinds side by side, so you can compare a (BTC) strategy with one that reads the coin's own chart.

One bar every five days

Every strategy here is built on five-day bars, and that's not something you set. A stock fund such as SOXX only trades on weekdays, so its bars cover five trading days, about a week, while crypto, gold and the S&P 500 use five calendar days. The rules look at the market once per bar, at its close, and act only then. That's what keeps them slow and their trade counts low. How the backtests are built has the details.

Young markets, thin evidence

BTC's history here covers about twelve years and several full booms and busts. HYPE and VVV have under two years: one market phase, a couple of trades per strategy. Their numbers can look spectacular, a 125% or 166% yearly growth on the Home page, but they rest on very little.

There's a second catch. Many coins rose steeply right after they were listed, and a backtest that starts at listing catches all of that early run. So strategy pages in the ETH, SOL, HYPE and VVV folders carry an extra warning, and the same caution is what the asterisk on the Home page's altcoin highlights refers to. They're there because they're strong on paper, not because they're proven.

Crypto Indexes pages have their own note: you can't buy TOTAL or TOTAL2 directly (perpetual futures that track them do exist, on Hyperliquid for example), and their history includes coins that joined later, which nobody could have picked in advance. Treat them mostly as signals about the market as a whole.

Asset classes in portfolios

Once you combine strategies in a portfolio, they're grouped into classes so you can split the portfolio between them, for example "40% Crypto, 25% Stocks".

On the Portfolios page DCA appears as a class next to the others. It isn't an asset, just a different way of holding BTC. Some filters on the Portfolios pages call the gold class Commodities; it's the same group. The Asset class filter on the Strategies page is simpler and only narrows the list of cards. See Static mix and weights for how classes work in portfolios, and Backtest fallback and late listings for what a portfolio does before a young market existed.

Related

• Browse the strategies
• Two-market strategies
• DCA books
• How the backtests are built