Quantitative Crypto Trading

Most crypto edge is curve-fit hope.
Ours has to survive proof.

CRYNOMAD runs three trading engines with distinct risk drivers — systematic long/short, delta-neutral carry, and volatility income — plus a free AI signal service. Each is tested forward and out-of-sample, through LUNA and FTX. The ones that don't hold up never get capital.

4Strategies
3Exchanges
2020–2026Validation data
LUNA · FTXStress-tested

Three rules we don't bend

01

Proof before capital

A strategy must show a positive, out-of-sample edge before a dollar is deployed. We don't dress up a backtest and call it a track record.

02

We lead with drawdown

Sizing starts from the loss we can tolerate, not the return we'd like. Risk control isn't a footnote here — it's the product.

03

Different risk drivers

Long/short positioning, carry, and volatility income respond to different market forces. We treat diversification as a design goal, not a guarantee.

Every strategy runs the same gauntlet

Most ideas don't make it through. That's the point — the filter is the edge.

STEP 01

Hypothesis

An economic reason it should work — not a pattern that happened to fit.

STEP 02

Out-of-sample walk-forward

Parameters chosen only from the past, then tested on data the model never saw.

STEP 03

Stress test

Forced through LUNA, FTX, and 2024's spikes — judged on the worst, not the average.

STEP 04

Forward test

Live market, real time, execution-faithful fills — before any capital is at risk.

STEP 05

Live capital

Staged in — smallest size first, scaled only as the live record earns it.

Selection happens in steps 02–03. By the time a strategy reaches capital, it has already survived the worst of the last six years — including the two events that wiped out most of the market.

Four strategies. Different edges, different risks.

Three trading engines and a free AI signal service. By design, they don't rise and fall together — each has its own entry on the track record: the edge it captures, the execution approach, and how it was validated.

VOLCANOSystematic Long/Short
Profits from positioning extremes and deleveraging cascades. Directional risk in every position; low long-run BTC correlation is a byproduct, not a hedge.
Live View performance →
GLACIERDelta-Neutral Carry
Funding and basis carry across major perpetuals, both sides hedged — built to grind, not to swing.
Validation complete View performance →
HORIZONVolatility Income
Defined-risk BTC options income, continuously delta-hedged — earns whether BTC drifts up or down.
Paper View performance →
AURORAAI Signal Service
AI signals for five majors — enters only on high-conviction days, sits out the rest.
FreeLive View performance →

Technical approach and validation stage for each — on the track record.

See the track record →

We show where each edge can break.

Each strategy on the track record is labeled by how far it has cleared validation — paper, forward test, live. No hindsight, no survivorship edits. The point of all the validation isn't to promise you won't lose; it's to make sure the edge is real before we risk anything on it.

Risk disclosure. CRYNOMAD strategies are at varying stages (forward test / paper / live), each labeled accordingly. Concrete performance is shared individually with qualified investors on request — not published here. Cryptocurrency trading carries significant risk, including the total loss of capital.