Buy the cheap stocks and short the expensive ones in equal amounts. We earn the gap between them and barely care whether the whole market goes up or down — a return that walks to its own beat.
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How we test a System
- Idea. We write the rules down and freeze them before any test runs.
- Backtest. We test on years of history. Most ideas die right here.
- Walk-forward. We re-test on data the tuning never saw — the honest check.
- Paper. We trade it live with fake money for weeks, before any real capital.
- Live. Real money — only after everything above has passed.
The strategies in this System
- S038statarb-momentum-combined-v2 (clean common-stock universe)In paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S037statarb-momentum-combined-v1In paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S036S036 — Johansen cointegrated ETF baskets (curve butterfly + credit) v1Failed — it didn’t clear a gate.the record →
- S034S034 — Pairs / stat-arb on cointegrated ETF spreads (Tasty presets), v1Failed — it didn’t clear a gate.the record →
- S040S-040 — statarb-balanced-lowturn-v1 (factor-balanced construction + lower turnover)Registered — queued🔒 rules & data for members
- S039statarb-momentum-diversified-v1 (neutral book + bond+gold diversifier)Registered — queued🔒 rules & data for members
Want the recipe, not just the result?
Everything above is public — including what failed and why. The exact rules, the data, and the live signals are for members. That’s the part you could actually trade.
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