Strategies/Trade Wind

Trade Wind

Trade Wind is a trend follower for 4h candles. It only trades in the direction the market is already moving, and only when that move shows up on every horizon it checks. In the default Long Only setup it buys when price is higher than it was 1, 2, 4 and 8 weeks ago, and sells at the 4h close once two of those turn down. It skips new entries when volatility is extreme and sits in cash the rest of the time, which in a falling market is most of the time. Long & Short does the same in both directions on futures (1, 2 and 4 weeks). Breakout buys closes above the recent 5, 10 and 20-day highs and exits on a trailing stop checked at the candle close. There is no stop-loss order on the exchange: every exit happens at a 4h close. Tested on 10 coins never used to design it (mid-2021 to Oct 2026, 20% of balance per trade) while those coins fell 33% on average: Long Only made +25% per coin on average with a profit factor of 1.60, positive on 8 of 10 coins, with a median worst drawdown of 18%. A handful of big trends make most of the profit, so expect long quiet spells and several small losses between them.

Spot + FuturesSMA · Trend FollowingTested on 0 of 15 exchangesFull docs & changelog
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Each bot's return on this version since it became stable (at most the last 30 days), averaged over bots with 5+ trades on it; drawdown marks open positions to their last stored price. Live bots only, else paper bots.

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Real historical candles, the same engine the bots use. Equity curve against buy-and-hold, win rate, drawdown. The strategy code stays server-side.

Where Trade Wind has been tested

One row per exchange with a recorded backtest: the best public run on that exchange, on the pair and timeframe it was run against. These are backtests, not bot records. 0 of 15 compatible exchanges have one; the other 15 are listed below without numbers.

Compatible, not yet backtested:BinanceBinance.USBybitCoinbaseKrakenOKXKuCoinBitgetGateMEXCHTXBingXCrypto.comHyperliquiddYdX

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What it reads

SMA
Simple moving average
Trend Following
Follows the prevailing price direction

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