Strategy Validation Lab
YouTube sells strategies.
We execute them.
Every viral trading strategy gets the same treatment here: exact rules, two years of real data, real fees — and a verdict. No affiliate hype. No cherry-picked charts. Just the tear sheet.
RSI 30/70 MEAN-REVERSION ✕ REJECT
VWAP TREND-PULLBACK △ CONDITIONAL
SUPERTREND (1H) … TESTING
3-EMA CROSSOVER … QUEUED
TTM SQUEEZE BREAKOUT … QUEUED
“87% WIN RATE” STRATEGY … QUEUED
Latest verdicts
Executed against real data. Stamped.
✕ REJECT
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Case 01 · BTCUSDT · 1H · 2Y
RSI 30/70 Mean-Reversion — the most taught strategy on YouTube
−66.0%Total
0.70PF
54.4%Win
73.1%MDD
△ CONDITIONAL
Publishing this week
Case 02 · BTCUSDT · 4H · 2Y
VWAP Trend-Pullback — the one that almost survived
+21.6%Total
1.36PF
21.9%Win
36.7%MDD
The method
One pretty number means nothing.
A strategy must survive all seven gates.
01
Sanity
No lookahead, no repaint
02
Friction
Real fees & slippage
03
Yearly
Every year, or one lucky one?
04
OOS
Survives unseen data
05
Robust
Parameters can wiggle
06
Markets
Not one coin’s fluke
07
vs B&H
Beats doing nothing
> Most YouTube strategies die at gate 02.