Systems tested

Turtle System 2 on Cardano: $1,000 → $12,398, and the catch

Turtle System 2 turned $1,000 into $12,398 on Cardano.

1983.

Two famous traders made a bet: can anyone learn to trade?

They trained a group of beginners: the Turtles.

The rules
In. The price breaks its 55-day high: buy. Its 55-day low: sell short.
Add. Keep adding as it runs, up to 4 units, each risking 1% of the account.
Out. A 20-day break the other way, or a stop two daily moves back.

Daily candles · Apr 2018 – Nov 2026 · fees 0.1% a trade included

What we found

$1,000 on ADA, 2018

$12,398

Just holding

−28%

Beat just holding, all 29 markets

9 of 29

Smaller worst drop than holding

25 of 29

Can we make it better?

We wrote down 26 changes before testing, and picked the one that did best on the first 70% of all 29 markets: long only, stop 3N.

Then the real test: ADA after Apr 2024, data it never saw.

The original rules

+20%

Long only, stop 3N

+49%

Just holding

−62%

It held up on 20 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 26 changes.

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