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7/13/2026
13 classic trading strategies tested against 6 years of crypto data: all failed post-cost grading
Original: We graded 13 famous trading strategies on 6 years of data. All 13 failed.
Short summary
The authors ran 13 widely-taught trading strategies through a grading engine on 6 years of crypto data — all 13 failed. Key findings: high win rates masked poor reward-to-risk ratios, trend-following consistently beat mean-reversion, and strategies passing 4 of 5 gates still failed on the fifth. The post promotes their free grading tool at tessen.ai/grade.
- •All 13 classic trading strategies failed grading across 6 years of crypto data
- •Trend-following outperformed mean-reversion; high win rates hid poor risk-reward
- •Promotes tessen.ai strategy grading tool — significant self-promotion element
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