The record
Every cycle turn since 2012, and what it said.
The model has a call for 5,047 days —
every day back to 2012-10-27, scored using
only the data available on each of those days. Here is what it said at each cycle
top and bottom.
Read the last row first. The two tops it handles best, 2013 and 2017, were
both violent blow-offs, and the rule that catches them only triggers in a market
going near-vertical — it has not fired once since 2017. Into the 2025 peak, the most
recent turn and the one most like today, it was defensive on just 3 of the 30 days
before. That is the number to judge it on.
And the part that is a backtest
Every performance figure we publish is a historical simulation, not a live
result. Across three completed Bitcoin cycles the model returned
2.03×,
1.08× and
2.23× against buy-and-hold.
The current cycle is still open: it reads
1.79× as of
2026-09-03, and an open cycle's
multiple moves with the price — treat it as a live reading, not a result.
We also test it on 18 separate stretches of history it was never tuned on. It lost
less in the crashes in 18/18 of them
— a consistency check, not proof of timing skill on its own, since a portfolio with
no timing at the model's own market exposure scores the same — but out-earned
holding in only 11/18.
Over a short stretch it is not reliably better than simply holding bitcoin. Over a
whole cycle it has been.
Each cycle has its own page — what the model did, turn by turn, including where it
was wrong: 2013–15,
2015–18,
2019–22, and the open
2023–26.