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Trading idea check for BTC and ETH

Your idea, tested before your money is.

Describe it in words. We write the exact rule, freeze it before the run, test it against a baseline on our derivatives history, and show every miss.

The pre-check is free: the rule in plain words, how much history it can use, how often it would have fired. It opens from a link we send to your email, or in our Telegram bot, so bots cannot run it.
The verdict is paid, from $29. A person and a test harness run your frozen rule against a baseline, after costs.
The moment the card is ready we tell you by email or Telegram, whichever you choose. Nothing you write here is published unless you say so.

The pre-check opens from a link in that email, or in our Telegram bot. No password. We use the address for this check and for one weekly letter with new verdicts, including the ones that failed. One click to stop. The verdict is paid, from $29.

Questions before you start? Ask us in Telegram or write to us here.

The rule as we read it Change anything that is not your idea. Edits are free until the rule is frozen.
History your rule can use The window starts where the shortest data series starts.
20202022202411.2026
—window starts
—months of history
—events, counted once thresholds are set. Need 30 or more
Already in our ledger 286 ideas in the ledger so far. A match shows the verdict for free.
Price for this rule Quick covers up to 3 conditions. Full covers up to 5 and shows what each adds.

Payment is taken when you order and does not depend on the verdict. Full refund if you change your mind before the rule is frozen.

Next Five dates when your rule would have fired, on a chart, are in the full pre-check.

This draft is saved for 30 days, with a link to come back to it in your email or Telegram. After you order, every status change and the finished card reach you by email, and by Telegram if you connect it.

This is what you get back

A real card from our own pilot. Not a client result. Numbers are from the out-of-sample period, BTC.

Busted

“The weekend CME gap always gets filled.”

93events out of sample
−7.5 ppreached the gap less often than a mirror level at the same distance
1Beats the baselineNo
2Trades after costs: +0.14% per eventNot distinguishable from zero
3Holds in calm and wild marketsNot tested: one regime out of sample

Rule v2, corrected after v1both verdicts on the card

rule · v2 · criterion corrected after the run
IF a weekend CME gap opens
THEN price returns to the gap level
BASE a mirror level at the same distance
v1 sha256 0a3581a9…f25e4d
v1 frozen 2026-10-27 21:59 UTC, before the run
v2 written 22:06 UTC, after the results

The fingerprint and the time are sent to you before any result exists. If we read your idea wrong, version 2 is free and both verdicts stay on the card.

What the five gates check

We publish the misses too

Every idea we test goes into a public ledger, the same way yours will if you choose to share it. “Hold” mostly means in sample so far; out-of-sample re-tests are under way and will be filed the same way.

286ideas in the public ledger
97hold
75hold only under conditions
87busted or superseded
27still in testing or in the queue

Ledger snapshot 2026-11-03 18:14 UTC.

Conditional

A sharp jump in BTC implied volatility within a few hours is followed by a bigger move over the next 24 hours.

2024 to May 2026: 66 events, the average 24-hour move after a jump was 3.4% against 1.6% on a normal day. May to October 2026: 13 events, 1.4% against 1.3%, no real difference. It held in one period and not in the next, and it never told the direction.

Options, DVOL

Busted

Price gets pulled toward max pain before options settle.

482 BTC and ETH expiries since March 2026: settlement hit max pain in 37% of them, and yesterday’s price was the better forecast. The famous magnet was not there.

Price vs options, 3 November 2026

Conditional

When perps get extremely expensive or cheap against spot, price snaps back over the next week.

BTC: in the most extreme 5% of readings the 7-day edge was +0.7% (t = 3.1). ETH pointed the same way but was not significant, so the idea only stands for BTC.

Futures and perps

Read the whole ledger

Four steps. You do the first two.

The rule is frozen before anyone sees a result, so it cannot be bent to look green. A changed rule is a new version, and both verdicts stay.

1

Describe

One message in plain words. No code, no jargon needed.

Seconds
2

Confirm the rule

Confirm your email or Telegram, open the pre-check: exact conditions, thresholds, five dates when it would have fired. You say “yes, that is my idea”.

Free, as many edits as you like
3

Freeze

After payment the rule is hashed and time-stamped. You get the fingerprint at once.

Seconds after payment
4

Read the card

Run against a baseline and a placebo, after costs, then reviewed by a person. Verdict, five gates, every miss with its date.

Within 48 hours, Pro within 24. We notify you by email or Telegram the moment it is ready

Combine anything. The window is the shortest series.

Tick what your idea needs and see how much history it gets. One option-chain condition and the whole rule lives from March 2026. You see this before you pay.

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window starts

20202022202411.2026

— months of history

Our own expiry corridor lost to a simple baseline.

Over 480 Deribit expiries our corridor held 82% of the time. A band of the same width around yesterday’s price held 90%. So the corridor’s position adds nothing, and the page says so. Your idea gets the same treatment.

Our corridor82%
Same width around yesterday’s price90%

Source: INDICIA docket, 482 expiries on 3 November 2026.

Five gates, one grade

Every card runs the same five gates and ends with a grade from A to F. You see which part of your idea works and which part is ballast.

1Edge out of sample is above zero
2It survives fees and bid/ask
3It holds on BTC and ETH, in calm and wild markets
4The drawdown is one you could live through
5Not fitted: every version and every try is counted

“Undetermined” is also an answer: on this history the idea does not differ from noise. The pre-check tells you beforehand whether there are enough events, so this verdict is paid like any other.

If the data the pre-check accepted fails on our side, you get the money back.

Pay per check, or keep testing

One check is cheaper than one bad trade. Subscriptions add beacons: we watch your passed rules on live data and re-test them every month.

Quick Checkone idea, up to 3 conditions
$29
Verdict card in 48 hours. One horizon, BTC or ETH. 10 checks for $190.
Full Checkup to 5 conditions
$49
What each condition adds, costs, BTC and ETH, calm and wild markets, one free version 2. 5 checks for $190.
Watchfor rules that passed
$15a month
Beacons on 3 rules and 5 whale wallets. Monthly re-test on new data.
Startermost people start here
$39a month
3 credits a month, unused ones carry over one month. 3 rule beacons, 5 wallets. First month $19 for the first 20 subscribers.
Profor a steady flow of ideas
$99a month
8 credits, 10 rule beacons, 20 wallets. Verdict within 24 hours.
When you pay. At order. Quick is 1 credit, Full is 2. The price never depends on the verdict. Payment: on request while card payment is being set up. Message us in Telegram and we reply with the options.
When you get it back. In full if you change your mind before the rule is frozen, or if we cannot run your check. If we read the idea wrong, version 2 is free. After the freeze the check is already running, and the order page says so.

What we don’t test

Altcoins and memecoins. Our deep history is BTC and ETH only.
Anything faster than one hour: scalping, order-book tricks.
Horizons longer than 30 days.
Tweaking the rule until it looks green. A change is a new version.
Real CME gaps. We approximate them with spot.
Profit promises, personal financial advice, or who owns a wallet.

Where the data comes from

Our own archive, collected from public exchange APIs: hourly snapshots of the whole Deribit BTC and ETH option chain since 10 March 2026, hourly DVOL and funding since May 2024, daily candles since 2020, spot ETF flows since January 2024, and the positions of every account in our Hyperliquid whale registry every 30 minutes since July 2026.

We sell the verdict, not the data. The raw archive is not for sale at any level.

Questions

Do I need to know options or write code?

No. Describe the idea the way you would explain it to a friend. We write the rule and you confirm it before anything runs.

What is a frozen rule?

The exact conditions, hashed and time-stamped before the run. You get the fingerprint at once. If the rule changes later, it becomes version 2 and both verdicts stay on the card.

Why can a verdict say “only in this regime”?

Some series are short. Option-chain history starts in March 2026, so a rule that uses it has only seen that market. The pre-check shows the window before you pay.

What if there are too few events?

The pre-check counts them first. Below 30 we do not sell the check in that form and suggest a looser condition instead.

Why do you ask for an email or Telegram before the pre-check?

Each pre-check runs a model and a count on our server. A confirmed email or a Telegram account keeps bots out and saves your draft for 30 days. No password, one weekly letter, one click to stop. There is a daily limit of free pre-checks per person; you see it only if you reach it.

Why is the pre-check free and the verdict paid?

The pre-check only counts history. The verdict is a person and a test harness working on your frozen rule, against a baseline and a placebo, after costs.

Will you publish my idea?

Not unless you agree. If you do, it appears anonymously in the ledger 30 days after the verdict. On request we delete it.

How will I know the card is ready?

By email, and by Telegram if you connect it on the order page. You get a message when the rule is frozen, if we have a question, and the moment the card is ready. The order page shows the status at any time.

Do I get the data?

No. You get the verdict card, kept for you for good. The data stays with us.

Did not find your answer? Ask us in Telegram, or write here.

We reply to the contact you leave and use it only for this reply.

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Describe it, confirm your email or Telegram, see the rule and the window for free. Pay only for the verdict.

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