How it works

Rules first. Then returns.

Every rule is written down, tested on five years of data, then enforced by software. The exact settings stay private so they can't be copied or traded against; the results are public, trade by trade.

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The rules that protect you

Every rule is written down, tested for five years, then enforced by software.

A brake that acts before the damage does.

The whole account is watched around the clock, with deposits excluded. The further it falls from its peak, the less it is allowed to buy, until it's allowed to buy nothing.

Step 1warning
Step 2fewer buys
Step 3no new buys

Bybit Pro's own limit is 20%. All three of ours bite first.

The exit is decided before the entry.

Every trade's sell is placed the moment it's bought. We tested letting winners run instead: returns fell by more than two-thirds.

Small bets, few at once.

Each trade is a small, fixed slice of the account, and only a few can be open together. Wins compound; one loser can't sink you.

Out before the exchange pulls the plug.

Coins the exchange flags as at-risk are never bought, and a held coin that gets a delisting notice is sold at once.

An alarm if the edge fades.

Live results are checked against the research with real statistics. If they fall behind, the system steps back by itself. No hoping.

How it works

Three steps. Boring on purpose.

01

Ask the market first

Before it looks at any coin, it asks one question: is the market healthy enough to buy at all? If the answer is no, it buys nothing.

02

Only setups that pass every rule

A coin must pass every written rule to qualify. Its exit goes on the exchange straight away, so it runs without anyone watching.

03

Let the rules finish it

Every trade has a time limit as well as a target, so nothing is left to hope. Idle cash earns interest in savings. The brake watches all of it, around the clock.

The parts most traders never show you.

Spotlight · the brake

Built after a real scare, not a whiteboard.

In our first week, money moving between accounts made the account look 19% down for a short while. The brake stopped buying, exactly as designed. We then taught it to tell a transfer from a loss. Every incident becomes a rule.

  • Reads the whole account around the clock, deposits excluded
  • Double-checks any sudden jump before acting
  • Recognises your deposits automatically
DRAWDOWN BRAKENORMAL
Now0%
Worst2%
Tradingbuyingcapped
Watchingaround the clock24/7

Spotlight · what we refused to build

Most good-sounding ideas lose money. We test them anyway.

More than 40 ideas have been tested across five years of data. That history only includes coins that still trade today, so absolute backtest results are optimistic; comparisons between ideas are fairer. Here's a sample of what didn't make the cut, and why.

  • Every idea must work in both halves of the history
  • And keep the worst drop inside 15%
Let winners run, no fixed exitreturns −70%
Trade more oftenless, and deeper drops
Bet against falling priceslost per trade
Trailing stop-lossesdeeper drops
Riskier, hype-driven coinsdrop past 15%
5× leverage "for more profit"wiped out

Same market. A different idea of "good".

The leaderboard way

  • Ranked by the best 30 days
  • 5× leverage to make the number bigger
  • No written rule for a bad month
  • Drawdown shown somewhere in the small print
  • Strategy changes when it stops working

The CriptoFocus way

  • Judged by the worst month first
  • Spot trades; any future futures capped at 2×
  • A three-step brake in code, all before 20%
  • Drawdown in the headline, updated every day
  • Changes only after a five-year test

Judge it by the record, not by this page.

Trading crypto carries a real risk of loss. Past results, live or backtested, don't guarantee future ones. CriptoFocus never holds your funds.

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