H-029: Live replication of H-027: daily direction forecasts published before 12:00 UTC

— Family: forecast · Status: registered

Do daily crypto direction forecasts work live? Data is being collected. The pre-registered test runs on 2027-11-01, once a year of data has accumulated.

Forward data collected: 0 of 368 days (0.0%). First test on 2027-11-01.

Result

Sharpe: return per unit of risk (higher is better). CAGR: average yearly growth. Max drawdown: worst fall from a peak. p-value: chance the result is luck (lower is better). “Hold” columns are buy-and-hold for the same asset and days. Glossary

No engine results yet: this study is kept for the record and is not re-run.

Why it might work

H-027 can only use history, where the model is fitted with hindsight about which inputs exist and external data may have been revised. This repeats the exact model live from 2026-10-29. Every morning the workflow computes the forecasts from yesterday's close with that month's model (fitted on the month's first day, stored once in datasets/forecast_models/ and never refitted) and appends them to datasets/forecast_log.csv; the commit to GitHub proves they existed before the outcome. Only forecasts published before 12:00 UTC count; the outcome runs from the open of the 12:00 UTC hourly candle to the next day's (datasets/noon_prices.csv: Binance hourly files, Gate.io API), so the real delay between data and trade is in the test. Same pooled Brier-skill test against the base rate and the same paper portfolio (share = probability, 10-point band, fees and slippage), first tested after about a year of live forecasts. Shares alpha with H-030 (0.05 / 2).

Verdict history

Pre-registered specification

kind: forecast_live
target: direction
model:
  type: pooled_logit
  features:
  - r1
  - r3
  - r7
  - r30
  - d50
  - d200
  - v7
  - v30
  - btc_r1
  - btc_r7
  - funding
  - fear_greed
  - stable30
  - flow7
  zscore_window: 365
  zscore_min_periods: 180
  clip: 5
  l2: 1.0
  refit: monthly
  external_lag: 1
  ffill_limit: 3
universe:
- BTCUSDT
- ETHUSDT
- SOLUSDT
- BNBUSDT
- XRPUSDT
- ADAUSDT
- LTCUSDT
- LINKUSDT
- DOGEUSDT
- XLMUSDT
- TRXUSDT
- EVERUSDT
- GRAMUSDT
costs:
  default: 0.001
  EVERUSDT: 0.004
  GRAMUSDT: 0.004
portfolio:
  weight: probability
  band: 0.1
execution:
  time_utc: '12:00'
periods:
- name: forward
  start: '2026-10-29'
significance:
  method: circular_shift
  n: 2000
  alpha: 0.025
criterion:
  metric: brier_skill
  pooled: true