Trading Reality Check

Trading Reality Check

Notes on crypto algo trading — what works, what doesn't, and what TradingView won't tell you. Backtesting pitfalls, strategy validation, automation between TradingView and exchanges. Written by someone who lost money learning all of this the hard way.


We Open-Sourced Our Dip-Buying Strategy — Here's How It Works

21 Feb 2026 1 minute read 1 comment s_morozov

Most dip-buying strategies fail for the same reasons: they buy too early, exit too late, and overtrade in chop. We built a TradingView strategy that tries to solve all three. It's called Dump Reversal Peak Trail v2 (DRPT), and it's free and open-sour...

I Stopped Trusting TradingView Backtests After This

18 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments s_morozov

So I had this strategy on SOLUSDT, 15-minute chart. Backtest showed +140% in four months. Looked clean — good win rate, reasonable drawdown, nothing suspicious. I was pretty excited about it honestly. Put it on demo. After two weeks the equity was ba...