Arena Blog

On May 29, CME goes 24/7 for crypto futures. What the gap phenomenon really was, why it worked — and how weekend volatility, Sunday pumps, and day-of-week strategies are about to shift.

A $292M exploit, $13B in TVL outflows in 48 hours. What happened, why it hit everyone — and what it means for a crypto portfolio.

New product category on Backtesting Arena. Plus: a first look at the RSI/SMA report covering 50 Binance pairs.

Open any signal-service landing page. The first number you see is almost always a win rate. 76%. 82%. 91%.

Sell, borrow, or borrow-and-buy more? Three strategies with real numbers, stress-tested against the Bitcoin Power Law.

Backtesting Arena (tradingstrategies.work) is a newly launched SaaS platform that lets traders and investors systematically test, compare and live-monitor trading strategies – across five asset classes: stocks, ETFs, commodities, forex and cryptocurrencies.

"RSI below 30 means oversold" is one of the most repeated phrases in trading education. The implied promise: when it triggers, a bounce is coming. Buy the dip.

There's a phrase you hear in every Bitcoin bear market: "wait for the forced sellers." Leveraged treasury companies, miners bleeding cash, funds facing redemptions — the theory says a prolonged downturn eventually flushes out the weak hands and marks the bottom.

MEXC lists 3,000 coins, Binance 'only' 400. We still deliberately use Binance data exclusively. The reason is simple: a backtest is only as good as its price history. Here's why data quality beats coin count.

In the last post we argued that adaptive normalization and institutional dampening are the future of cycle indicators. Then we built exactly one — and tested it honestly. The results forced us to reposition the indicator.

Most crypto traders ask the wrong question. Not "which altcoin should I buy?" — but "is it even altcoin season right now?" Buy the best altcoin at the wrong time and you'll still lose to someone who just held Bitcoin. Timing the market regime matters more than picking the right token.

Everyone wants a reliable Bitcoin cycle indicator. Buy near the bottom, sell near the top. Simple concept. Surprisingly hard to build well. Here's what we learned trying to build one — and why the classic approaches are becoming less reliable with every cycle.