Systems tested

Double 7s on NEAR: $1,000 → $2,633, and the catch

Since 2020, Double 7s would have turned $1,000 into $2,633 on NEAR.

Double 7s.

Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez put it in a book of short-term systems.

Buy the weakness in an uptrend. Sell the strength.

The rules
In. When the price is above its 200-day average and closes at its lowest of the last 7 days: buy, with the whole account.
Out. It closes at its highest of the last 7 days: sell.
Nothing else. No stop, no shorts.

Daily candles · Oct 2020 – Nov 2026 · fees 0.1% a trade included

What we found

$1,000 on NEAR, 2020

$2,633

Just holding

+207%

Beat just holding, all 29 markets

3 of 29

Smaller worst drop than holding

29 of 29

Can we make it better?

We wrote down 19 changes before testing, and picked the one that did best on the first 70% of each market's history, across all 29: 4-hour candles.

Then the real test: NEAR after Jan 2025, data it never saw.

The original rules

+22%

4-hour candles

+51%

Just holding

−33%

It held up on 6 of 29 markets.

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The full test

Every market, the whole period against just holding, and after the cut: the original, the change, holding. Plus all 19 changes.

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A setup is a starting point, not a verdict.

Other candles, stops, filters, your own coin: test every change on real data, before you risk a cent.

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Past results, measured on real data with fees included. No promise of future returns. This is not investment advice.