Most of what you read about trading bots is opinion. This isn't.
Anyone can post a screenshot of a winning week. The hard part, the part almost nobody does for free, is writing the bar down before the result and publishing the losses either way. Here is exactly how we do that, including where it stops short. One of these you can check yourself, right now.
We call it before we bet.
Before we risk a penny, we publish exactly what would make a strategy a winner. So when one loses, we can't move the goalposts and sell you a loser as a win, it's on the ledger with the bar it had to beat.
Every number is tied to a dated artefact.
Each published figure has to name the research document it came from, and the build fails if one is missing. That is not the same as proving the number is right, and we are not going to claim it is: it means no figure can be invented on the page without leaving a trace back to the day it was measured.
Tested like real software, not vibes.
The judge that decides whether a strategy works runs over 3,000 automated tests. We keep the winners private, that is the edge, but the system that kills the losers is held to real engineering standards.
A strategy that looked great, until we checked.
The whole process on one real example: what it promised, what we found when we tested it, and the day we called it dead. The other 40 get the same treatment on the ledger.
The “just copy the winning wallets” pitch
“Just copy the winning wallets” is one of the most-pitched strategies in crypto. We mirrored 205 real trades, then re-ran the test removing one wallet at a time. The entire edge came from a single lucky wallet: drop it and a winning record turns into a loss. A widely-believed edge, falsified on real data.
- How we checked
- We re-ran the results removing one wallet at a time. The moment we took out the single luckiest wallet, the whole “edge” turned into a loss. It was one fluke carrying the group, not a system you could repeat.
One thing we hold back on purpose: the strategies that win stay private. Publishing them would hand away the only part that actually makes money. So the test numbers above are shown as totals, never as code. Last checked 2026-08-15.
Saw a bot promising returns it won't show you?
Send them here. The ledger is every strategy we tested and killed, with the real numbers. They are the receipts a genuine edge can afford to publish, and a sales pitch can't.