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How to actually use the desk's indicators and algorithms
Each indicator on its own is only half a picture. Here's the plain-language way to use them together: when to buy, when to get out, and which triggers to trust. No jargon, just what the six years of history actually showed. The last section covers the desk's algorithms: the same rules, run by code, with their measured record.
One rule above all: check the weather first
The Market Regime indicator is the market's traffic light. Green means money is flowing in and most coins are trending up (risk-on). Red means money is leaving and most coins are below trend (risk-off).
Regime controls exposure, not coin selection. Green means you may look for entries; red means protect capital and skip longs.
The 10 live tools, in plain words
| Tool? | What it is? | What it tells you? | How to read it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Regime | the market's traffic light | risk-on or risk-off right now | green → you may press; red → protect |
| Market Screener | liquid movers and unusual volume | which names are even worth a first look | a research funnel, not a trigger |
| Breakout Radar | liquid coins near highs on real volume | which names have live momentum | a shortlist, not a buy button |
| Relative Strength | leaders versus the market | which names lead in risk-on | selection input, only with green regime |
| Funding Stress | market-wide leverage heat | is leverage crowded across majors? | hot → reduce risk; never short by itself |
| Funding Rate | median perp funding | how expensive leverage is now | context for crowding, not direction |
| Whale Accumulation | named holders' 24h stack change | who is adding or trimming | confirming context, not an entry |
| Cross-chain Flow | 7d chain TVL movement | where liquidity is moving | context before price, not a trigger |
| Toxicity | blow-off and stretch risk | which names are dangerous to chase | avoid or de-risk; never a short trigger |
| Attention / CT Heat | where the crowd is right now | whether a name is already crowded | context before acting; it forecasts nothing |
How to read a row → Market Regime: it's the market's traffic light. A green reading means you may press, a red reading means protect and stop taking longs. Check it before anything else.
Why one tool alone isn't enough
A breakout by itself is close to a coin-flip. Across six years, a coin flagged breaking out went up only about 49% of the time. But split it by the traffic light and it's night and day:
Breakout in a GREEN market
up 54% of the time, and much bigger average gains
Breakout in a RED market
up only 33% of the time, and negative on average
Same trigger, opposite outcome. The difference is the weather. This is why the rule comes first.
The funding myth. "Funding is sky-high, so short the top" sounds smart and is backwards. Historically, when longs were most crowded, price kept going up, not down. Crowding tells you a trade is late, not that it's about to reverse. Use it to size down, never as a reason to bet against the trend.
The 10-tool entry checklist (going long)
- Market Regime is green (risk-on). If it is red, do nothing — this is a hard stop, not a suggestion.
- Market Screener narrows the market to liquid movers and unusual volume. It is the first pass, not a trigger, nothing on it is an entry on its own.
- Breakout Radar finds real-volume momentum, not a random ticker.
- Relative Strength confirms that the name leads the market while the regime is green.
- It is already crowded. Attention says the crowd is here — that is not a veto, it is a warning about the price you will get.
- Toxicity does not veto it. Do not chase a blow-off just because momentum is strong.
- Funding Stress is not extreme — the market-wide leverage trade is not already packed.
- Funding Rate is not extreme for the coin. It is crowding context, never a direction trigger.
- Whale Accumulation shows named holders adding. Useful confirmation, not a trigger.
- Cross-chain Flow is positive for the coin's chain. Useful confirmation, not required.
All 10 align → full position size. Missing either confirmation (#9 or #10) → take a smaller size. Never skip the regime, selection or Toxicity checks. Daily Read fuses seven coin-level inputs around this global regime gate.
Getting out, and stops
- The weather turns red. Market Regime crosses back below zero → money is leaving. This is your master exit, trim or close longs across the board.
- Always a stop on each trade. Most breakouts don't work; you make your money on the few that run big. A stop is what lets those winners pay for the string of small losers.
- The trade gets crowded while you're up. Funding spikes to an extreme on a position that's in profit → take some off. The crowd has caught up and a squeeze gets more likely.
- Nothing happens in about a month. These triggers are measured over roughly 30 days. If there's no follow-through by then, the idea didn't play out, move on.
What to trust, what to ignore
We tested dozens of triggers on the full cycle and published the failures too (that's the lab). Here's the short version:
Trust these (they confirm)
- The market traffic light (Regime)
- How hot funding is (the level)
- How spread-out funding is across coins
- How volatile the market has been
Ignore these (tested = noise)
- Raw price momentum on its own
- A single day's volume spike
- Funding "percentile" rankings
- Funding direction used as a buy/sell trigger
The rule for combining them: more agreeing triggers = a bigger position, never a reason to skip the checklist. One extra green light lets you size up. It does not let you buy in a red market.
The desk's algorithms: the same rules, run by code
The checklist above is the manual path. The algorithms below trade the same discipline mechanically: each ships its full rules and a backtest with controls. A losing result is published the same way as a winning one.
| Family | Variants | Bar | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donchian | 35 | 1d / 1h / 4h | Donchian channel breakout on perps; variants add volume, correlation, regime and FVG filters | lab 32 · candidate 3 |
| Cross-Lab | 11 | 15m / 1d / 4h | rules from cross-lab v2 the desk owner launched by hand: they did not clear the funnel's own selection, and each carries the control it failed in its status | lab 11 |
| HyperGrass | 3 | 1d | momentum basket on Hyperliquid; the product publishes target weights | published 2 · candidate |
| Breakout Radar | 1 | 1d | the breakout radar read strictly: near the 52-week high, volume surging, trend strong; no measured exit yet | lab |
| Daily Read | 1 | 1h | the desk's daily call, executed as an algorithm with its own ledger | published |
| HyperDelta | 1 | 4h | cross-sectional momentum long-short over 15 Binance perps, dollar-neutral; the desk's re-measurement did not confirm the source's claim | lab |
| SMC | 1 | 1d | entry on a structure break (SMC) | candidate |
| SMC v2 | 1 | 1d | return into the chart study's live fair value gap, stop beyond the zone (SMC v2) | candidate |
| TradFi Breakout | 1 | 1d | breakout on tokenized HIP-3 equities | candidate |
Counted from the spec catalogue at build time; the cards live on the Algo hub.
- The verdict sits above the first good number; a losing run is published with the same care as a winning one.
- Six passport tiles: total return, annualized, drawdown, sharpe, trades, win share.
- Controls are mandatory: 200-seed name permutations, a random-entry null, and the null of the algorithm's own cycle phase.
Honest limits (read this)
- These are historical tendencies, not promises. The edge is small and only shows up over many trades, never trust it on any single one.
- The exact percentages are noisier than they look (the measurement windows overlap). Trust the direction: green beats red, early beats crowded, not the precise number.
- Coins that died and delisted aren't in the sample, so real life is a bit worse than the backtest, especially in red markets.
Indicators and playbook are purely for informational purposes only. They are not intended to and should not be interpreted as investment or financial advice.