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
All bots on this strategy · All versions · 30-day live · 1 bot · v1.0 has no trades yetLive
Avg 30-day ROI
+7.1%
Avg win rate
100%
Worst DD
0.0%
Trades
5

Each bot's 30-day return across all strategy versions, averaged over bots with 5+ trades; drawdown marks open positions to their last stored price. Live bots only, else paper bots. Shown until v1.0 has a bot with 5+ trades on it.

No backtest recorded yet — but it has bots running
Bots running
10
Across 4 exchanges
Tested performance

How Trade Wind did in testing

TradeStaq research results, not a single backtest: this setting was tested on 10 coins.

Trade Wind — Long Only
Avg return per coin
+25.5%
Coins profitable
8 / 10
Typical worst drawdown
-17.9%
Profit factor
1.60

How it trades

  • In a trade about 22% of the time
  • About 1 trade a month
  • About half of new bots traded within 4 weeks

This preset

  • Uses 20% of the balance per trade
  • 2x leverage on futures
  • Trades on 4-hour candles
  • Buys only when every lookback points up; sells once half of them turn down
  • Skips new entries when volatility is extreme
  • Long only: sits in cash through downtrends

By market condition

All years
2021 to Oct 2026 (UNI, OP, INJ from 2022)
Avg return
+25.5%
Profitable
8 / 10
Worst DD
-17.9%
Falling market
2022 (the coins fell 78% on average)
Avg return
+0.8%
Profitable
4 / 7
Worst DD
-8.3%
Last 12 months
Oct 2025 to Oct 2026 (the coins fell 43% on average)
Avg return
+5.5%
Profitable
7 / 10
Worst DD
-7.2%

Coin by coin

CoinReturnWorst drawdownBuy & holdTrades
AAVE/USDT+13.7%-18.6%-40.0%69
ATOM/USDT+2.0%-20.0%-94.6%52
BCH/USDT+12.2%-11.4%-48.6%70
DOT/USDT+34.4%-13.3%-93.2%51
ETC/USDT-0.3%-17.9%-84.0%59
FIL/USDT+15.9%-17.3%-98.0%44
INJ/USDT+98.4%-17.9%+329.8%55
NEAR/USDT+64.8%-20.8%-60.0%48

Run once on 10 coins never used to design the strategy (DOT, ATOM, NEAR, AAVE, UNI, BCH, ETC, FIL, OP, INJ), with settings fixed in advance: Bybit USDT perpetuals, 4h candles, each coin from its first full year of history (mid to late 2021; UNI, OP and INJ in 2022) to Oct 2026, long only, 20% of the balance per trade, 0.05% fee and 0.05% slippage per side, $10,000 per coin. Tested at 10x on cross margin: on cross, leverage sets the margin, not the result, so the preset's 2x is the same exposure. Funding payments are not included. Most of the result comes from a few large trends per coin. Tested in Oct 2026 with version 1.0. Includes coins that were never used to design the strategy. Past results don't guarantee future ones.

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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 — the 30-day bot record above covers every exchange. 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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