VORRIK RESEARCH

Strategy Autopsy

Everyone publishes the strategies that worked. We test the ones people believe in — with real money and public data — and publish whatever comes back, including when the answer is “this loses money.” Full method every time, so you can check our work.

CRYPTO · STRATEGY TEST
A popular strategy claims +257%. We tested it on three coins.
Ichimoku cloud, ADX and choppiness filters, ATR pullback entries. Run against 500 days of hourly data on ETH, BTC and SOL, it lost on every single one — and the leveraged version lost 65%.
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STOCKS · 30 YEARS
Every famous stock timing rule vs. buy-and-hold
The 200-day moving average, the golden cross, “sell in May,” buying the dip. Thirty years of dividend-adjusted S&P data. All four lost to doing nothing.
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CRYPTO · REAL MONEY
We ran 7 crypto strategies with real money. All 7 lost.
Sniping, scalping, momentum, gainer-chasing, grid, trend-following, mean reversion — tested with our own capital and public data. Here is every number.
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METHOD
The one line of code that made our backtest lie by 11 points
Our own test claimed a strategy earned 18.6% a year. It was peeking at tomorrow’s price. The real answer was 7.2% — and here’s how to check whether yours is lying too.
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We test one strategy people swear by and publish whatever the data says — including when it says the strategy doesn't work. Free, no pitch.

Vorrik Research publishes tests of publicly discussed trading strategies using public market data and our own capital. It is factual reporting of what happened in historical and live tests — not investment advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Past results never predict future results.