A Cross-Asset Signal That Survived Costs — and Still Isn't Tradable Yet
BTC-crash → ETH/SOL cross-asset signal: Sharpe 0.96 on 96 events, WFE 0.47, costs eat 62% of edge. WATCH verdict. 69-day corpus, no sealed OOS.
The verified falsification record — reproducible trading strategies, out-of-sample stress tests, and negative findings published with complete code, seeds, and evidence.
BTC-crash → ETH/SOL cross-asset signal: Sharpe 0.96 on 96 events, WFE 0.47, costs eat 62% of edge. WATCH verdict. 69-day corpus, no sealed OOS.
We preregistered the trapped-long sequence (OI expansion, aggressive buying, failed breakout, OI contraction) and tried to kill it. It died. Hyperliquid has no OI history; this is a Binance 5m negative result.
BTC statistically led SOL at one minute and the gross Sharpe reached 5.75. The catch: execution costs were 327 times larger than the edge.
Systematic parameter sweep across 2,102,767 one-minute Bitcoin bars ($15k-$108k). Proves Ultra-Sharp Pinbar Rejection (Wick > 85%, Range > 0.3%) achieves +15.98% return with 10.95% max DD over 21,791 trades, confirming order flow exhaustion edges over breakout traps.
Exhaustive 4-year study across 2,102,767 one-minute Bitcoin bars executed in ~10s per run on cloud container compute. Proves that microstructure wick rejections (+13.76%) and volume absorption (+8.08%, 9.59% max DD) generate consistent edge, while naive 1m breakouts fail (-28.49%).