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INCONCLUSIVE

Hidden divergence (rsi 14, by peaks)

When price corrects less deeply than the indicator does, the main trend's strength is intact, and the correction is a chance to enter with it.

Measured in cryptoBinance spot · 540 pairs, delisted ones included · 0.2% per round trip

Net per trade
+1.67%
after fees
The fee is charged on both legs: every trade pays to open and pays to close.
Stalled at
costs
could not show the edge survives the cost
Worst drawdown
−60%
1,834 days underwater
How far the account fell below its own best previous moment.
Timeframe
1 day
The time grid this was measured on. The same technique on a coarser or finer grid is a different measurement, and can earn a different verdict.
  • invariance
  • costs
  • placebo
  • benchmark
  • out of sample
  • multiple testing
Equity curve
Risking 1.0% per trade, marked to market every day — not only when a trade closes. The line at 1.0 is the capital it started with.

At its worst the account was worth 60% less than its own best previous moment, and it spent 1,834 days below that peak.

The technique against chance
Same number of trades, same holding time, same assets — only the dates were drawn at random.
0%barthe technique+1.67%random dates+0.03%
The average trade and the typical one
The mean sits above the median: the lottery signature — the typical trade loses and a rare handful pays for everything.
0%mean+1.87%median+0.95%

What was measured

We coded the rule exactly as it is described and let it trade on its own from 2017-08-17 to 2026-07-28. It found trades in 540 coins, 11,118 in total. Each one enters and exits at the price that existed on that day — the program never sees what comes next, which is the most common mistake people make testing strategies at home. Wherever the description was ambiguous we took the reading least favourable to the technique; whatever was left open is stated in the hypothesis, at the foot of this page.

How many of those trades actually count

Only 29 of the 11,118. Cryptocurrencies rise and fall almost in unison, so the same rule fires on dozens of coins on the same day — and that is one bet repeated, not dozens of different bets. Counting them all separately is the trick that makes a bad test look impressive.

What it paid, before any deductions

+1.87% per trade. This is the number the technique claims, and the only one on this page that has not yet been through a single control.

Where it stalled · the broker's fee

We subtract the fee the broker charges to open and to close each trade — every trade pays on both legs. What is left after the fee is too small to be told apart from zero.

What would have happened to the money

Risking 1.0% of capital per trade — the most widely taught rule — across the whole period: The capital would have ended at 1.69× what it started with. At its worst the account was worth 60% less than its own best previous moment, and it spent 1,834 days below that peak. In none of the 12 paths tested did it fall to less than half of what it started with.

The account would not fit every signal

14% of the trades had to be turned down: by the time they appeared, the money was already tied up in other positions. That matters because the average return per trade the technique claims is computed over trades that nobody could have taken all of.

What this result does NOT say

For an edge to be assertable here it would have to reach 4.54% per trade — that is the size that survives this archive's multiple-testing correction, and it rises as the archive grows. So INCONCLUSIVE means “we found nothing above that size”, and never “it cannot possibly work”. The instrument is far more sensitive than that: on synthetic data, with a clean effect, it separates from 0.69% upwards. The distance between the two numbers is the price of a real market and the price of publishing many claims. The difference matters, and it is the rule of this house: the card confronts the claim, never the person who made it.
What this card does not measure
Every verdict holds for the conditions it was measured under. These are this card's — and outside them the result does not apply.
One market, one universe
Measured on 540 spot cryptocurrency pairs, delisted ones included. It says nothing about futures, equities or indices, nor about how the same technique behaves in another market.
One window of time, not every window
The measured period runs from 2017-08-17 to 2026-07-28. A market moves through regimes, and a technique can work in one and fail in another — the card measures the regimes that fit inside this window, not the ones still to come.
One cost structure
The cost charged is 0.10% per leg, in and out. Anyone paying more than that gets a worse result, and anyone paying less gets a better one — the verdict holds for this fee.
One exit rule
The trade was closed by: the auditor's fixed horizon (10 bars). The same entry measured with a different exit is a different strategy, and can earn a different verdict — it happens in this archive.
The number of trades is not the sample size
There are 11,118 trades, but only 29 independent market episodes: a single move fires the technique across dozens of assets at once, and counting those as separate observations inflates any result. It is the smaller number that governs the arithmetic. With 29 episodes, what the data supports is a range from -1.16% to +4.91% per trade — the published average is the centre of it, not the exact measurement.
Daily bars
Measured at the daily close. Nothing here measures what happens inside the day, and an intraday technique is not auditable with this data.

Numbers and reproducibility

The six controls

controlstatustthresholdepisodes
invariancepassed
costsinconclusive1.132.0529
placeboinconclusive1.102.0529
benchmarkpassed
out of samplepassed
multiple testingpassed
  • invariance11118 signals across 750934 barsconcentration: +36.34% of the profit sits in the top 5% of trades — with the dates shuffled, +32.91% (fails above +50.00%)
  • costsgross +1.875% · cost 0.200% · net +1.675% (t=1.13) · the range runs from -1.356% to +4.705%
  • placeboactual +1.675% · placebo +0.029% · excess +1.645% ± 1.501% (t=1.10 against a threshold of 2.05, 29 real groups, 555,900 sham dates, draw error ±0.028%)
  • benchmarktechnique +1.67% · buy and hold (same horizon) +0.03% · excess +1.65%
  • out of sampleasset half A: +1.307% (t=0.80, 29 episodes) · asset half B: +2.053% (t=1.30, 29 episodes) · liquid half (>= US$ 2,066,613/day): +1.760% (t=1.29, 29 episodes) · illiquid half: +1.581% (t=0.86, 28 episodes) · period 1/4 (2017-11-17 a 2022-04-22): +4.002% (t=1.42, 15 episodes) · period 2/4 (2022-04-23 a 2023-11-25): +0.277% (6 episodes — too small, does not count) · period 3/4 (2023-11-26 a 2025-03-29): +1.784% (6 episodes — too small, does not count) · period 4/4 (2025-03-30 a 2026-07-18): +0.621% (5 episodes — too small, does not count)
  • multiple testing1 variation(s) tested · t=1.13 across 29 episodes (equivalent to t=1.08) · p≈0.2788 · false positives expected by chance ≈ 0.28

Equity — outside the six controls, and here is why

The t of the trade series is invariant to bet size: 0.5%, 1% and 3% agree to the sixth decimal. Nothing here moves the verdict — it moves what the account would have lived through.

risking 1.0% per trade
×1.69
worst drawdown from the peak
60%
days below the previous peak
1,834
signals refused for lack of capital
14%
paths where the account halved (out of 12)
0

Reproducibility

period
2017-08-17 to 2026-07-28
assets that traded
540
variations tested before this one
1
gross per trade
+1.87%
net per trade
+1.67%
exit rule
the auditor's fixed horizon (10 bars)
horizon bars
10
fee per leg
0.001
episode days
112
seed
20260728
open parameters
divergence peak period, confirmation bars — the source does NOT specify; the published value was chosen in the translation and is not a claim of the technique. ⚠️ NOT SWEPT: this card measures ONE cell of a parameter space, and control 6 was given 1 attempt.
divergence peak indicator
rsi
divergence peak period
14
divergence peak type
hidden
confirmation bars
5

Binance spot klines (delisted pairs included) · collected from 2026-07-27 23:31 to 2026-08-03 10:49 · 540 assets · 750,934 bars · 2017-08-17 to 2026-07-28

Hypothesis, filed before the result

⭐ **This is the one I think SURVIVES**, and it is the only positive bet I make in this battery. The reason is one of exposure, not of mechanics: hidden divergence is the reading almost nobody teaches — the video with 3.5 million views that originated the technique map describes only the regular one and does not even mention that the other exists. If anything unarbitraged is left in the three techniques of this battery, I bet it is here, precisely because fewer people look. And it is a risky bet on purpose: it goes against the pattern of the four arenas of 2026-07-27, against today's Moon report, and against my own prediction for the other two families in the same battery. What would contradict me: any of the six controls failing it. A FAILED here is not 'I knew it' — it is my only positive bet falling, and the card has to record it that way.

the filing date is not in this audit's record

The original, as it was filed

⭐ **Esta é a que eu acho que SOBREVIVE**, e é a única aposta positiva que faço nesta bateria. O motivo é de exposição, não de mecânica: a divergência oculta é a leitura que quase ninguém ensina — o vídeo de 3,5 milhões de visualizações que originou o mapa de técnicas descreve só a regular e nem menciona que a outra existe. Se sobrou alguma coisa não arbitrada nas três técnicas desta bateria, aposto que está aqui, justamente porque menos gente olha. ⚠️ E é aposta arriscada de propósito: contraria o padrão das quatro arenas de 2026-07-27, contraria o laudo da Lua de hoje, e contraria a minha própria previsão para as outras duas famílias da mesma bateria. O que me contraria: qualquer um dos seis controles reprovando. Um REPROVADO aqui não é 'eu sabia' — é a minha única aposta positiva caindo, e o card tem de registrar isso assim.

Pre-registration exists to keep prediction apart from rationalisation: written after the number, every hypothesis is right.

This claim has been audited once — there is no history to compare against.

record 64f74ab9dc93 · 2026-08-16 15:20

This code comes from this card's content: if anything here changed after publishing, the code would stop matching — that's how a change gets caught. We audit the technique, never the person — no record names an author, a channel or a brand.

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