🔄 I’m continuing to adapt the live R1 strategy using the new filter system I built while working on the private club strategy!

🆒 The filters work insanely well… why didn’t I add them earlier?! I’m releasing an update for SUI 15min R1 — it’s now upgraded to version 1.2, just like BTC!

I’m attaching a backtest from February 1 with 821 trades. Yours should match after setup!

⚠️ If it doesn’t, check the SOURCE parameter in the Z-Score module. It must be CRYPTOCAP:TOTAL3ES. If it’s not, change it.

⚠️ And of course, update your alerts — this version takes more trades and is generally higher quality.

🔄 Continuing to improve my strategies — I’ve released SUI 15min R1.3.

I added a time-based exit so positions don’t stay open too long, and slightly slowed down short entries.

I also noticed that different fees or just a different position size can slightly change performance by shifting some entry points. This happens because TradingView accumulates tiny “crumbs” like 0.0002 SUI from fees and rounding. So it actually makes sense to nudge your position size slider — sometimes $1,001 can work better than $1,000. It’s micro-pennies, of course, but still worth noting.

⚠️ If you’re using this bot, reconnect it and recreate your alert!

🔄 Rolled out the 1.3 update to the ETH bot as well.

ETH 15min R1.3 is now available. I still couldn’t fully smooth out the August–September drawdown, but after tightening with the new filters it’s become much more stable, and not that many trades were lost.

⚠️ If you’re using this bot, reinstall it and create a new alert!

ℹ️ While a little bull run and altseason are kicking off, let me bring some value and show you how a pump-and-dump works using AARK as an example — we managed to snag a few pennies on it recently.

Next post I’ll show you another interesting coin…

Here’s the gist. The market maker halts trading on Bybit, and the only major exchange left with AARK is Gate. It suddenly becomes “unwanted,” and everyone dumps it, assuming the project has rugged if they can’t even maintain basic exchange infrastructure (which might actually be true).

Then for about a month, it gets bought back in massive volumes near essentially zero. In other words, the MM hoovers up the float for peanuts so that retail holds nothing and there’s no one left to sell.

After that—when there’s no one to sell into you**—you start buying, say with **$100k or even $1M, and the price rockets 17,000%. Chaos ensues: people try to make sense of it, buy/sell, etc. Meanwhile, the pumpers quietly unwind, dumping into the order book.

In the end, they might have bought everything for ~$100k, and then sold whatever they could at moon prices.

💬 What should we take away?

1. On Gate, there’s a crowd that pumps low-liquidity old projects.
2. You can spot their accumulation by the huge volumes.

🪙 Here’s the asset I promised to talk about.

Yeah, it’s a total garbage project — but take a look at its chart on GATE.IO… then on AARK, then back here…

⚠️ I’m not encouraging anyone to do anything! Crypto is risky, and trading is bad for your health! And of course, it’s your money — your responsibility!

Crypto is risky, do your own research!

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