Crypto trading style planner

Use this worksheet to compare research processes before selecting a strategy question. It does not score you, choose a style, or recommend trading. The holding windows below are working descriptions; people and venues use these labels differently.

1. Describe the constraints you can verify

2. Compare four research horizons

These are questions about process requirements, not claims that one horizon is safer or more profitable. A style name alone does not specify turnover, leverage, edge, expected return or suitability.

3. Mark the evidence fit

For each candidate style, mark every line available, partial, or unknown. Do not count “unknown” as zero cost or assume a missing feed is reliable.

• The data interval can represent when the rule becomes knowable.
• The price source, timezone and missing observations are documented.
• Entry, exit, invalidation and maximum holding time are observable.
• Spread, fees, slippage and applicable funding are explicit assumptions.
• The fill model handles limit touches, stops, partial fills and gaps honestly.
• The position size and total exposure fit the written paper-study limit.
• I can preserve no-trade, rejected, missed and unsuccessful cases.
• I have a later period or forward observation plan that is not repeatedly reused for tuning.

4. Choose one question to study

5. Record the decision

Keep this planner with the test version, source coverage and reasons for choosing or rejecting each candidate. Compare the written process before interpreting simulated results. A backtest or paper record cannot establish future performance or prove that a live order would fill. For product-specific limits, read SuperQuant research methodology. For more detail, see the crypto trading styles guide, scalping costs, day trading, swing trading and position trading.