Unlock research into crypto edges & alphas. Then build multiple robust strategies.
* 50 PLACES ONLYCrypto is volatile, emotional, chaotic. That's precisely why systematic trading belongs here!
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Stop “investing in crypto.” Start trading it like a professional.
Crypto made people rich — mostly by being early, mostly in Bitcoin. That easy era is fading. As the market matures, the lazy buy-and-hold payoff compresses, and outside BTC the altcoin reality is harsher: deep drawdowns, long recoveries (if any), and a long tail of coins that never come back.
The opportunity hasn’t disappeared — it has upgraded, but now is the time to move. Crypto is shifting from early adopter to smart trader. It’s a 24/7, narrative-driven, emotionally charged marketplace where “tips” outrun truth — and where the same forces that punish passive holders create repeatable opportunity for systematic traders in both bull and bear markets. You get more volatility, more fragmentation, more regime shifts, more behavioural mispricing — and yes, 500% more time for price discovery than traditional markets because it never closes.
That’s the hidden edge: crypto is still inefficient. Traditional markets have been sanded down by decades of institutions. Crypto hasn’t. A smart trader knows which pond to fish in.

Here’s the reality check:
- Buy-and-hold collapses outside Bitcoin. Most coins don’t “come back.” If you bought the 20 largest cryptocurrencies at the late-2021 peak, only three recovered to positive returns; the rest remain in drawdowns ranging from 36% to wipeouts.
- Crypto’s ‘problem’ is also its opportunity: extreme volatility + persistent inefficiency. In the top 50 crypto futures universe, daily moves are often 5–10x larger than major equity indices—painful for passive investors, useful for systematic traders. There are structural reasons for this that quantitative traders can take instant advantage of.
- The market structure rewards systems, not vibes. Crypto runs 24/7, amplifies FOMO, and turns social media into a sentiment engine—often manipulated, always noisy. Discretionary traders can’t monitor constantly, can’t scale attention across many assets, and can’t reliably eliminate emotion under stress. For algorithmic traders, it’s a target-rich environment.
- No testable edge = polite gambling. If you can’t systematize it, you can’t properly test it. If you can’t test it, you can’t trust it.
- Systematic trading is honest about the ugly bits. Yes—losing streaks are mathematically normal: a ~35% win-rate trend system can see 25 losses in a row; even 50% win rate can still produce 16 consecutive losses. Build a system you can trust, then sleep like a baby.
Crypto Trader’s Edge is built for modern crypto: exploit inefficiency, harness volatility, and trade with evidence — not adrenaline.
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CTE Overview
1. Get mentored by a professional
Created by an award-winning quantitative trader, the course focuses on how crypto markets actually behave: 24/7 price discovery, extreme volatility, regime shifts, and multi-year cycles. You’ll work through extensive Pine Script code—used to research, visualize, and stress-test ideas in real market data.
2. Yes, actually learn to fish
This is not a signal service or a prediction engine. The emphasis is on process, evidence, and repeatability, giving you a framework you can adapt into your own research and trading workflow.
3. Working strategies - but so much more
The goal isn’t to hand you trades. It’s to give you practical tools and a research mindset you can integrate into your own systems.
The focus is on idea generation and framework construction, not black-box signals.
4. Crypto is a massive opportunity for quants
If trading from intuition feels exhausting or inconsistent, this course gives you a different way forward. It helps discretionary traders transition toward a stats-driven, evidence-based approach—showing how subjective observations can be formalized, measured, and evaluated objectively.
Harvest extra alpha

Before the course
- Crypto feels like chaos. You’re either HODLing and hoping, or trading on instinct—and neither is a robust plan in a market that runs 24/7 and punishes hesitation.
- You may already trade other markets and want crypto for non-correlated returns, but you don’t yet have the framework to do it safely: no repeatable research process, no validation, no clear way to build a diversified set of edges across markets, strategies, and timeframes. So you under-diversify, over-react, and end up riding narratives instead of probabilities.
- Off-the-shelf “strategies” don’t solve this. If you didn’t build it, you don’t trust it—and when the regime shifts, you’ll likely turn it off at exactly the wrong moment.
- This course is about learning to fish: edges, regime components, analysis skills, and deployable code—so you can mix, match, and evolve alphas into strategies you actually understand.
After the course
- You trade with rules, stats, and evidence.
- Every edge is delivered as real code you can run, test, and modify. You know why you’re in, why you’re out, and what the data says about the trade before you risk capital. Your confidence stops coming from hope and starts coming from validated logic.
- You also gain something most traders never develop: the ability to invalidate your own ideas. You’ll see edges that look good fail proper testing—and you’ll learn exactly why. That judgement is the difference between “active” and “professional.”

You leave with:
- A repeatable research workflow (including a Python-based validation process using TradingView exports)
- A pool of tested alphas to build from
- The mindset to separate signal from noise
- The foundation to build a diversified, non-correlated portfolio—and automate it if you choose
Crypto won’t stay inefficient forever. The advantage goes to traders who can turn volatility into repeatable edges—systematically.
What You'll Learn (and why it works)
You’ll build the skill stack that real systematic traders use:
- Edge identification: how to spot a tradeable pattern that isn’t just hindsight bias. You’ll do research.
- Rule design: clear entry/exit logic you can actually execute (and automate). You learn to combine multiple approaches—e.g., breakout, trend-following, and mean reversion—so you’re prepared for different regimes rather than betting on a single market mood.
- Robustness testing: does the strategy hold up over un-seen data? Over other markets? How should we approach quantitative trading on crypto with such limited data history?
- Portfolio construction: combine uncorrelated systems so your performance isn’t hostage to one market regime. We’ll set you on a path to mix and match systems, markets, alphas in the way that best suits you.
- Risk management that respects math: drawdowns, recovery asymmetry, and position sizing that keeps you in the game. Alternative data, crypto-specific regime indicators as well as unique stop-loss and volatility measures
Why Most Traders Fail (and how to avoid it)
Most retail traders lose for reasons that are painfully consistent:
- They confuse a bull market with skill
- They scale risk when they should scale methods & markets
- They gamble on narratives instead of trusting research driven probabilities
- They can’t trade 24/7, but the market can punish them 24/7
- They never verify whether they have an edge — they just feel like they do… until you stop hearing from them
This course confronts the psychology, but it doesn’t worship it. “Mindset” won’t rescue a bad strategy. It only helps you execute a good one when it inevitably hits a drawdown.
You’ll learn what seasoned systematic traders internalize early:
- Research must be scientific, and statistically meaningful
- Systematisation means scaling markets, strategies and letting diversification work for you
- There’s an art to the science; it pays to have a mentor so you can see how they think
- Capital usage, position sizing, portfolio construction, risk management: these are the things that truly compound your edges
- Establishing your own process for robust strategy creation is the real wealth factory
The course shows you how to design around these realities, empowering you with tools and knowledge, not a ‘cheat sheet’.
Here's What We Cover
Lesson 01: Crypto Foundations

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Lesson 02: Intro to Bitcoin Edges & Pinescript

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Lesson 03: Bitcoin Edges

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Lesson 04: Intro to Altcoin Edges

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You’ll be introduced to path-independent evaluation thinking to reduce distortion from trade sequencing and sizing artifacts. Most importantly, you internalize the scientific mindset: most ideas fail under proper testing, and that failure is valuable information. By the end of this section, you should understand how to build a repeatable multi-asset testing framework that emphasizes breadth, robustness, and methodological humility over lucky outcomes.
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Lesson 05: Altcoin Edges

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Lesson 06: Broad Market Analysis

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Lesson 07: Risk Management & Execution

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Lesson 08: Demo Videos & Bonus Content

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Meet your mentor, portfolio manager
David Bush
What do you do after beating over 3,200 competitors from more than forty countries to win 1st Place with your quantitative stock strategy? Throw all your resources at the crypto space to develop robust high-payoff strategies, of course! Meet David Bush, a multiple award-winning quant trader, mentor and author of Crypto Trader’s Edge.
“You can get to know me better by watching my podcast with Simon. There’s also my Substack, and soon a Mini Masterclass. Watch this space.
I first got acquainted with crypto while sitting on a panel with Pantera Capital’s Dan Morehead, listening to him educate people about this brand new asset called bitcoin. It was 2014, and bitcoin was under $500. But I was too busy speaking to this sophisticated group of Manhattan investors about my own quantitative mean reversion strategy to really understand the opportunity or comprehend the revolutionary nature of this new asset. That changed a few years later, and I got it. I knew that crypto would change my life. And it has.
While crypto is a market of dramatic extremes – from absurd memes to transformative decentralized technologies – the opportunity for traders only grows. Think of it as the ultimate Risk On / Risk Off market, with ceaseless opportunity and arguably the greatest payoff potential in the history of financial markets.
With incredible opportunity comes elevated risk, however, so the need for a logic-driven framework is crucial. That’s where Crypto Trader’s Edge comes in.
When I finally understood this new asset class, one of the things I realized was that crypto was the perfect compliment to my equity strategy, offering a massively asymmetrical opportunity that was simply unavailable in the equity space outside of a handful of names. I’ve never looked back, and am completely psyched to be able to share the many insights, edges, and code files which make up the Crypto Trader’s Edge course.”
You can read my full bio here:
The Outcome: Justified Confidence
By the end, you won’t just “know more.” You’ll have a structured approach to:
- design strategies with clear rules
- test them with intellectual honesty
- understand expected drawdowns and losing streaks
- build a portfolio of systems that can survive different regimes
- execute with a process that’s calmer, cleaner, and more professional
Collaborating in the community and getting the follow-up from David and Simon will ensure you get questions answered and strategies implemented. If you want tools for data, back-testing or automated execution with your crypto broker, we have you covered.
You’ll Take A Quantitative Approach
Proper portfolio construction, risk management and diversification mean extracting more profit from crypto with less risk.
- Understand edges, essential metrics and principles for systematic trading
- Use TradingView, with its endless supply of data, or build out the strategies in RealTest, Amibroker, Python, TradeStation, it really doesn’t matter.
- Start basing trading decisions on sound statistical work.
- Draw from the experience of a fund manager who has spent decades in the markets
- Understand the principles of finding robust edges that are likely to survive ‘out of sample’
- Take our multitude of alphas, entries, exits, filters, regimes & so forth and mix and match as you do your own research and build your own crypto fund.
- Risk management is multi-facted, and must be part of the thinking up-front: Crypto gains of yesteryear may not be around tomorrow, we aren’t here to gamble or predict. We want to apply sound quantitative trading techniques, learned as a quant fund manager

Who Crypto Trader’s Edge is For
Crypto Trader’s Edge is for traders who want real, research-backed crypto edges—without the typical multi-year trial-and-error apprenticeship.
It’s a fit if you:
- Trade systematically and want to add non-correlated crypto exposure to a traditional portfolio—without doing something reckless.
- Want to compress the learning curve to algorithmic trading built on rules, testing, and portfolio thinking. You want to get operational fast (process, tools, execution).
- Want a method that can operate in a 24/7 market without requiring you to become a sleep-deprived chart-watcher.
- Want to see reliable BTC + Altcoin alphas with the research logic behind them—the logic of an experienced fund manager.
- Are an exhausted discretionary trader who’s tired of gut-driven decisions and wants evidence-based rules.
- Are a HODLer who wants tactical trades to complement long-term holdings.
- Want to build a skill you can compound for life: research → test → deploy → refine.
Not for you if you want:
- 500% every year, a “secret bot,” or black-box nonsense. This is a learning + capability course, not a lottery ticket.
CTE focuses on crypto edges and crypto-specific analysis. Deeper work on advanced portfolio design, sizing, capital allocation, and higher-level robustness is reserved for the next step (CTE II).
If you haven’t done much with crypto before you’ll get a flash intro to all the important features of the market. If you need the absolute basics (which are still critical, we created a free crash course here: Crypto-101. For those with a bit more experience in systematic trading, but not in crypto, you’ll be introduced to the nuances of working with limited historical data, provided with ‘time tested’ edges that are simple and robust, and can take things to the next level working with us in the community.
Even though we begin by covering simple quant-trading principles, the resulting set of tools, strategies, research & insights are quickly going to re-pay your investment, even if you are more familiar with systematic trading.
What makes this different from random crypto content:
Most content sells certainty. This course builds process: define rules, test them, understand probabilities, and execute consistently—especially when your instincts are screaming at you to do something stupid. You generate clarity from a deeper understanding of the market and the trading process, providing confidence that your diversification and model depth means you can compound smartly and endure drawdowns – so you don’t quit at the worst time.
What You'll Get

A Transforming Framework
- ~10 hours of training across 430+ slides (high signal, minimal fluff).
- A guided, plain-English walkthrough of how quants research markets: metrics, robustness basics, and risk-aware thinking.
- A clear “crypto-specific” orientation: the market’s quirks, constraints (including limited history), and how to work around them.
- Instructions to master Trading View for research & back-testing. We also use Python and RealTest.
The edges (the real payload)
- 15 distinct crypto “alphas” you can mix, match, filter, and evolve into unique portfolios.
- Built around a simple philosophy: Research first. Alphas first. Keep it elegantly simple & robust.
Code & tools
- Pine Script code for 7 Bitcoin edges / strategies
- Pine Script code for 8 Altcoin edges / strategies
- RealTest code included as a bonus (for both BTC + Alt edges).
- Python robustness tools to compare In-Sample vs Out-of-Sample (so you’re not “optimising yourself into a fairy tale”).
- Unique data sets, stop-loss, bonus proprietary indicators and filter logic for superior crypto risk management and regime identification.
Community & ongoing value
- Access to a collaborative community with fellow participants plus mentor support.
- Bonus content added periodically. Like live AMA’s with David.
Risk-free entry
You’re covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee, so you can evaluate the course properly without gambling on trust.

Want to Fully Automate Everything?
First, we’ve built this course primarily using TradingView, so you can use that for research and automated trading. If you want more flexibility, we’ve got access to data downloading tools and an order management system that will connect with your broker via their API if you want to automate everything!
Here’s the Investment Opportunity

You can try to piece this together yourself — systematic trading, crypto market structure, research process, risk management, strategy design, robustness testing, regime analysis, learning the code and tools, diversification, portfolio construction — and pay for the “education” the expensive way: lost time, avoidable mistakes, and a few painful drawdowns while your skill is still immature.
You’ll get a guided, research-first framework, a library of usable edges, and the know-how to test, refine, and combine them into a diversified portfolio — with community and mentor support to keep you calibrated and accountable.
This isn’t about hype. It’s about outcomes:
- Build real quant skills (confident process, not guesswork)
- Trade objective edges with robust risk control
- Progress toward multi-strategy portfolios and, if you choose, automation
The earlier you build competence, the less tuition you pay to the market. Start now — while the opportunity set is still there, and before you spend another year “almost” getting it right.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time do I need each week?
Entirely up to you! Ideally at least 2–4 hours per week to move steadily through the lessons, review examples, and run your own tests within a few weeks. If you want to go faster, you can binge it over a few weekends. The key is not “time spent” — it’s time spent testing and thinking, not chart-watching.
Do I need to be able to code?
No. You don’t need to start as a programmer — you need to start as a rule-builder. The course gives you working Pine Script & Real Test code and shows you how to use it. Over time, you’ll naturally become more comfortable editing and adapting logic, but the course doesn’t assume a coding background.
What software do I need?
Ideally: TradingView (to run the Pine Script strategies and use Strategy Tester). The course includes walkthroughs showing how to paste code in, toggle it on/off, and access Strategy Tester results (metrics, trades, reports). That said, you can take the fully disclosed rules and principles and apply them in your application of choice.
Can I use other tools or data instead of TradingView?
Yes. TradingView is used because it’s accessible and fast for research and visualization, but the concepts are platform-agnostic. Some students will translate ideas into other environments. The course also includes a Python analysis file to reinforce key statistical/validation concepts.
Does this course teach full automation?
Not as the primary focus. This course is about building validated edges and a research workflow first. Automation becomes straightforward once the logic is proven and you understand the failure modes. You’ll be pointed in the right direction for automation paths, but the core deliverable here is: testable systems you can trust.
What support do I get if I’m stuck?
You’ll have access to the community plus mentor support to help with questions, troubleshooting, and clarifying the research and testing concepts. As questions cluster, we’ll also run live deep-dives/webinars and add them into the course so it improves over time.
Is there a community, and what’s it for?
Yes. It’s there for accountability, idea cross-checking, troubleshooting, and staying sane in a market designed to hijack your emotions. Most traders fail in isolation; community compresses the learning curve and reduces unforced errors. Joining the Collective is extra, but well worth it for deeper interactions with experts.
Do I already need substantial quant experience?
No. Experience helps, but the course introduces core testing concepts, definitions of key quantitative metrics, and foundational material so students new to quant analysis can fully benefit.
I’ve tried courses before. Why is this different?
Most courses teach tactics. This teaches a process: build rules, test them, understand probabilities, then execute. The fact that it’s taught by a genuine fund manager and has community follow up is the real edge.
Crypto is too volatile.
Correct — for passive investing across the broader market. That same volatility creates frequent signals and short-term dislocations that systematic approaches can harness.
I’m not technical.
You don’t need to start technical; you need to start defining rules. The core shift is moving from “feel” to “define,” and the course is built around that transition. Still, you have to have an interest in doing analysis with coding tools to become a proficient quant trader.
What kinds of returns will I make?
There are no guaranteed returns, and anyone promising specific numbers in crypto is either naive or selling you a fantasy. Your results will depend on execution, risk settings, the market regime, and how you combine and manage strategies. What the course does provide is the only honest path to performance: testable edges, a validation process, and risk management discipline — so you can quantify expectations before you trade and avoid “polite gambling.”
How does the guarantee work?
Let us know before you finish Section 3.02, within 14 days, and we’ll give you a full refund if you don’t think the course is meeting your objectives. No questions asked.