GateKilled

Does the trend-farming bot beat doing nothing on fresh days?

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the bot’s “good day” filter actually picked the worse days, the wrong direction

In plain English

The bot’s own “good day” filter actually picked worse days than the ones it skipped, the filter points the wrong way.

What it needed

‘good’ days beat ‘bad’ days by a statistically real margin

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What it got

no real difference, and the “good” days actually did worse

Why it's dead

The farmer performs worse on days that pass its own entry filter than on days that fail it. The gate is anti-predictive. A pre-registered kill fired mechanically on the locked threshold.

The detail

OOS n=53 days. Pre-registered 8-part spec locked the success criterion: Welch p<0.05, mean_pass>mean_fail. Result: days that passed the filter averaged a net loss while days that failed it averaged ~flat, the wrong direction, Welch p=0.4848.

Kill date: 2026-04-27
Sample: 53 days, fresh data
Method: Pre-registered
Verdict: pre-reg kill, gate fired as designed

What it would have done to your money

You put in$10,000

You run it for200 trades

You would have

$8,869

−$1,131

lost (11%)

You started with$10,000

This strategy left you$8,869

Instead of not trading$10,000

This strategy had no real edge, so there is no return to compound. The only honest number is the cost: every trade just pays the 0.06% round-trip fee, compounded here. You choose the amount and the time; the bleed is what trading noise costs.

Pre-registered before the data. Judged on a criterion locked in advance. Published whatever the result.

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