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PerpForge is a perpetual-futures strategy simulator. We backtest common trading ideas on real price data and publish which ones have an edge you can tell apart from luck — then you run your own. Pick a family below to read its full set, or read the cross-family ranking underneath: the results whose edge we can actually trust, sorted by edge significance, not by the loudest return.

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EMA Cross26 variants

A moving-average crossover family tested across BTC, ETH, and SOL. Ranked by statistical significance, not by the biggest dollar number.

How to read the cross-family ranking. We rank by edge significance: whether a strategy's profit edge is real rather than luck, not by the return. So a strategy with a small but proven edge outranks one with a big-but-unproven return, and a robust loser can outrank a lucky winner. That ordering is the whole point. It shows you which results you can trust, not which look biggest. Within the same verdict, we then order by the confidence haircut on the Sharpe ratio (the pessimistic, lower end of the plausible-Sharpe band) — so the steadier-looking result of two with the same verdict comes first. Inconclusive and busted results sit at the bottom.

Most significant · across all families

#	Strategy	Verdict	vs Buy & Hold	Worst drop
EMA Cross
1	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross SOL·1h	Real edge	-2013.4%	-9.9%
2	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross SOL·30m	No edge	-2071.0%	-25.8%
3	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross ETH·30m	No edge	-406.7%	-28.0%
4	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross SOL·15m	No edge	-2149.2%	-56.6%
5	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross BTC·1h	No edge	-540.7%	-19.3%
6	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossSOL·15m	No edge	-2164.8%	-70.2%
7	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross BTC·30m	No edge	-566.4%	-35.4%
8	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross Heavy lossETH·15m	No edge	-447.2%	-58.7%
9	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossETH·15m	No edge	-462.0%	-73.5%
10	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossSOL·5m	No edge	-2221.9%	-98.0%
11	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross Heavy lossBTC·15m	No edge	-601.0%	-67.6%
12	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossBTC·15m	No edge	-612.1%	-77.6%
13	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossSOL·1m	No edge	-2242.0%	-98.0%
14	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossETH·5m	No edge	-487.1%	-98.0%
15	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossBTC·5m	No edge	-632.6%	-98.0%
16	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossETH·1m	No edge	-485.7%	-98.0%
17	EMA Cross 9/21ema-cross Heavy lossBTC·1m	No edge	-632.0%	-98.0%
18	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross SOL·1h	Inconclusive	-2036.6%	-12.8%
19	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross SOL·4h	Inconclusive	-1926.1%	-9.9%
20	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross ETH·1h	Inconclusive	-366.3%	-8.6%
21	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross BTC·4h	Inconclusive	-502.2%	-6.6%
22	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross ETH·4h	Inconclusive	-357.1%	-7.5%
23	EMA Cross 21/50ema-cross BTC·1h	Inconclusive	-527.1%	-11.2%
24	EMA Cross 12/26ema-cross ETH·1h	Inconclusive	-388.4%	-20.3%
25	EMA Cross 50/200ema-cross SOL·4h	Inconclusive	-1825.0%	-5.8%
26	EMA Cross 50/200ema-cross ETH·4h	Inconclusive	-352.0%	-7.9%

Some of these blew the account to zero. Others lost most of it. We leave them on the board, ranked next to the winners.

A curated cross-family selection — the strongest results plus the notable busts. Drill into any family above for its complete set.⚑ in-sample · Binance · Jan 2021 – Jun 2026 · flat fees, no funding or slippage · as of Jun 2026

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