5 times quickfire crypto traders bought the news for double (or triple) digit profits

December 11, 2021 Coin Telegraph

Buy the rumor? It depends how fast you pull the trigger when the news breaks. These mind-bending returns rewarded crypto traders who were fastest on the draw... Here's how you can join them.

Why do crypto traders “buy the rumor, sell the news”?

Simple. Because whispers of exchange listings or big-name partnerships reach very few people… while an article in Cointelegraph can reach hundreds of thousands of crypto enthusiasts in seconds. While insiders are quietly amassing tokens on rumors, the rest of us are completely ignorant of what may be coming.

But with rumors, there are no guarantees. Which can lead to disappointment and serious loss of investment for those traders who gamble that they’re true… and end up wrong.

So how can you possibly compete with thousands of other market participants when important news actually breaks? You’d have to be one of the very first to know in order to catch the price before it spikes.

Look at the examples below — the time between a closely-guarded announcement and a massive price spike of 144% can be just a few minutes!

NewsQuakes™ on the Cointelegraph Markets Pro data intelligence platform allow you to completely outsource monitoring the crypto news space to AI. The machine learning algorithm automatically combs through thousands of relevant sources and instantly alerts members via mobile notifications when potential market-moving events are detected.

NewsQuake™ announcements are snapped from primary sources such as exchange websites, Medium posts, or projects’ Twitter accounts, meaning that traders don’t have to wait for the media or their favorite influencers to turn raw information into a story.

Extensive research has identified three types of news — exchange listings, staking, and partnership announcements — that are most likely to spark strong rallies.

Here are 5 stories that alerted traders to massive profit opportunities in 2021… and a few dramatic illustrations of how NewsQuakes™ tipped off Markets Pro members.

WAX (WAXP): +144% in 2 hours

*WAXP price following Cointelegraph Markets Pro NewsQuake™*

Exchange listings reliably boost crypto prices, especially when it is a small or medium-cap coin being listed on a major exchange.

On Aug. 23, before the news of WAXP’s listing on Binance came in, the token was trading at 18 cents. In two hours from the announcement, WAX’s price soared to reach 44 cents. In this situation, getting the news quickly was key.

As can be seen in the chart, the NewsQuake™ alert (red circle) came in just before WAX’s price exploded.

Decentraland (MANA): 111% in 96 hours

*MANA price following Cointelegraph Markets Pro NewsQuake™*

It is now hard to believe that in March 2021, long before Facebook’s rebranding into Meta and the associated hype around the group of assets now widely known as metaverse tokens, MANA was trading at just $0.55.

On March 12, the announcement of OKEx enabling margin trading for the asset got crypto investors stoked, and sparked a long rally that saw MANA go from $0.55 to $1.16 over the next four days. The earlier traders were in buying the NewsQuake™, the more profit they could have secured for themselves…

Polygon (MATIC): +90% in 50 hours

*MATIC price following Cointelegraph Markets Pro NewsQuake™*

On Feb. 23, in the middle of a cool-off that followed the first leg of the week’s big rally, the announcement of MATIC’s debut on Binance Staking gave the asset a powerful second wind. (The red circle indicates the Markets Pro NewsQuake™.)

The resulting hike propelled the coin from $0.11 to its then-all-time high at over $0.21, an increase of 90%. Today, this can seem minor in the light of the token’s year-to-year return on investment of more than 11,000%, but on that day, traders were surely content with MATIC’s price “only” nearly doubling.

VeChain (VET): +46% in 52 hours

*VET price following Cointelegraph Markets Pro NewsQuake™*

A great example of impactful partnership news is VeChain’s announcement of its collaboration with the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers that came up on Apr. 12.

It was not a huge surprise that the news of the enterprise-oriented blockchain project getting access to the client base of one of the Big Four firms pushed the token’s price 46% up over the fours of two days.

In this case, the NewsQuake™ from Markets Pro arrived significantly before the major rally.

Amp (AMP): +42% in one hour

*AMP price following Cointelegraph Markets Pro NewsQuake™*

On Nov. 23, a post on Binance’s Twitter account announced that digital collateral token AMP was slated to be listed on the exchange platform. Markets Pro users received their near-instant NewsQuake™ alerts within seconds.

It was a very clean breakout: Apparently, no-one front-ran the news, and the token’s price soared immediately following the public announcement, shooting up almost vertically from $0.050 to $0.071 in just an hour – a gain of 42%.

Timing was key here, and those Cointelegraph Markets Pro members who got the news early thanks to the NewsQuake™ alert found themselves ahead of the pack.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial advisor before making financial decisions.

A RUNE with a view: How smart crypto traders caught a 48% price pump

June 19, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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THORChain and Kyber provide the perfect examples of how quant analysis and breaking news can help cryptocurrency investors to capitalize on volatile markets.

Disparities in information access and data analytics tech are what give institutional players an edge over regular retail investors in the digital asset space.

The core idea behind Markets Pro, Cointelegraph’s crypto intelligence platform powered by data analytics firm The TIE, is to equalize the information asymmetries that permeate cryptocurrency markets.

Markets Pro bridges the gap with two world-class functionalities: the quant-style VORTECS™ score, and breaking NewsQuake™ alerts.

The former is an algorithmic comparison of several key market metrics around each coin to years of historical data, which assesses whether at any moment the outlook for this asset is bullish, bearish, or neutral given the historical record of price action.

NewsQuakes™ are automated notifications driven by an AI routine that monitors thousands of information sources to deliver potentially market-moving news to members, often within seconds.

Neither of these is a predictive tool. What both the VORTECS™ score and NewsQuakes™ are designed to do is to notify traders that something has just happened that, in the past, reliably moved asset prices. That’s why a good Markets Pro chart is the one that shows events happening in the right order and in the right time: First comes the indicator, and then price action follows.

In the last couple of days, we have observed a number of exemplary scenarios illustrating classic Markets Pro reads on the market.

RUNE: VORTECS™ shoots up, price follows shortly

June 13 did not start off as a particularly great day for those who were invested in THORChain (RUNE) and looking to make some gains. The coin has been on its way down, falling from above $9.00 a couple of days ago to just above $7.00.

However, the coin’s VORTECS™ score has been steady in the green (bullish) zone, sometimes even venturing into dark green (confidently bullish).

While most traders only saw what was on the surface — a coin’s weak performance — Markets Pro members have had access to a wider view. Even if the price trend did not look promising at all, the market conditions remained historically favorable for RUNE, suggesting a dip potentially worth buying.

Shortly before noon, RUNE’s VORTECS™ line tipped over 80, foreshadowing a rally that began to unfold six hours later. When the price went up, it went up sharply: from $7.00 to the peak of $10.34 twenty-six hours later.

It might also seem from the chart that fuel for the rally came from a NewsQuake™ detected a couple of hours before the pump. While the announcement of a RUNE giveaway by an investment company Qi Capital has definitely added to the momentum, it is unlikely that it had actually triggered the massive pump: As a sequence of strong VORTECS™ scores pointed out, RUNE’s breakout was propped up by an overall healthy outlook in the first place.

KNC: Polygon partnership news shakes up the market

Big announcements that promise more liquidity for the DeFi sector are usually a boon for the coins involved. When Kyber protocol’s team announced the deployment of their first liquidity mining program on Polygon and Ethereum, worth $30M in rewards, the market rewarded the KNC token with a pump from $1.78 to $2.06 (a 16% increase) within 8 hours.

However, the effect of the news began to recede almost as quickly as it kicked in, so only those quick to react were allowed to feast at the profit table. A safe way to secure a spot was through receiving a NewsQuake™ (red circle in the graph) notifying users of the collaboration. Alerts were sent to Markets Pro several minutes after the deal was publicly unveiled, but before the price of KNC had begun ascending.

These classic patterns are replicated day in, day out on Cointelegraph Markets Pro, where the top-performing strategy the team has been monitoring since Jan 3 2021 (Buy at 80, Sell after 24 hours) has now delivered a staggering 3,694% return in live-testing. Full details of the methodology used are available here.

Faster than the speed of news: What a 41 minute head start means to crypto traders

June 17, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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Information asymmetry is at the heart of crypto investing. Here's how to be on the right side of emerging news.

When exchange listing news hits the crypto market, there’s often a spike in trading volume and a rapid (if often short-lived) appreciation in the price of the crypto asset. The degree of movement depends on the exchange making the announcement, the liquidity of the token and many other factors — but as has been identified on multiple occasions, a Coinbase or Binance listing often moves markets.

Of course, the market participants who react fastest to this kind of news usually secure the best opportunity for delta.

So where does the savvy crypto investor spend their time in order to beat the market? Constantly refreshing the Coinbase blog? Bugging CZ’s non-existent office? Sifting through thousands of accounts on Twitter? (Good luck with that.)

As always, when there’s the potential for profit, human ingenuity finds a way — in this case, the NewsQuake™ service from Cointelegraph Markets Pro, which delivers news with market-moving potential to members in seconds… and often long before the masses get wind of major developments.

At the heart of the magic is a machine-learning algorithm that continuously monitors thousands of crypto blogs, Twitter accounts, and industry publications. It automatically selects exchange listings, partnerships, and staking announcements that have historically moved coin prices the most, and sends alerts directly to members.

It’s the exact same tech that powers Cointelegraph news (and our major competitors) — but delivered in seconds, without the intervening need for writing a story.

Three announcements this month have demonstrated that if traders aren’t fast, they’ll probably be furious.

Nervos Network’s cross-chain partnership with Cardano

Building an interoperability bridge with Cardano is obviously a big deal for the less famed Nervos Network and its utility token, CKB.

While most people learn of such collaborations from Twitter, blockchain projects often break the news in their blogs first. The NewsQuakes™ algorithm has you covered here, keeping an eye on every crypto project’s blog worth following.

On June 2, when the Nervos-Cardano partnership was announced on the company’s blog, it took Markets Pro less than 40 seconds to hit its subscribers with an alert, marked with a red circle in the chart. At that moment, CKB price was at $0.015 (first red box).

Apparently, very few crypto traders noticed it: In the next two hours, the price hadn’t moved much.

Interestingly, the tweet about the announcement took two hours to arrive, after which the price finally began picking up. In less than 30 hours, it reached $0.024 — a 37% increase.

Those who received the initial NewsQuake™ alert from Markets Pro on their phone had a benefit of two extra hours — time they could use to weigh their investment decision and leisurely fill their bags with the coin that was just about to explode.

The launch of Cardano staking on OKEx

There was also quite a gap between the May 24 blog announcement of the upcoming launch of ADA staking on OKEx and the platform’s tweet the next day informing users that the service was now active: 22 hours.

It took the NewsQuakes™ system less than a minute to identify the original blog post as potentially influential and send out an alert (first red circle, price $1.47).

A lot of folks seemed to catch up, as ADA’s price began climbing steadily from there to reach $1.57 by the time the tweet got posted (second red circle).

This 6.5% return within 22 hours could be considered a prize for those who went with the initial NewsQuake™.

When the tweet appeared, the fading momentum got a further boost as the Twitter crowd rushed into action. The peak of $1.77 was achieved a day and a half later (red box in the chart), meaning that overall Markets Pro users could have generated a 17% profit from the event with an entry point timed shortly after receiving their initial alert.

Solana listing on Bitfinex

In the case of the SOL listing on Bitfinex that was unveiled on May 31, the time between the exchange’s blog post carrying the news and a subsequent tweet was 42 minutes. With the NewsQuake™ delivery time of under a minute, it makes for roughly 41 minutes for Markets Pro users to thoroughly deliberate and set up their buy orders before word reached the trader masses.

As the graph shows, Solana’s price did not spike sharply thereafter, but rather adopted a smoother trajectory that saw it rise from around $31 at the time of the NewsQuakes™ to almost $38 within three days — a 19% increase in value.

Markets are information systems, and the value of any asset is a function of information exchange between market participants. This is especially true for the cryptocurrency space, as the valuation of digital assets is tremendously sensitive to news-driven swings of trader sentiment.

Those who are lucky enough to beat the crowd in getting an actionable scoop even by a few minutes can leverage their knowledge to generate profits.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro is available exclusively to members on a monthly basis at $99 per month, or annually with two free months included. It carries a 14-day money-back policy, to ensure that it fits the crypto trading and investing research needs of subscribers, and members can cancel anytime.

Quiet down, Elon: 5 crypto stories that didn’t need Musk’s Twitter antics to move markets

May 13, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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Yeah, yeah, we get it: Elon loves attention. Here's a picture to keep him happy. Meanwhile, let's take a look a 5 crypto news stories this month that didn't require us to fawn over his influence...

There’s more to crypto than Elon Musk’s frequent (and frequently misguided) tweets on the subjects of Bitcoin and Dogecoin. And although the brilliantly visionary CEO / SEC-baiting memeking may have positioned himself as a news cycle unto himself, crypto news has the power to influence major price action across the altcoin markets — particularly if you can be the first to react to it.

Rumors and news are the true tectonic forces behind the cryptocurrency market’s dynamics. Extensive research by the Cointelegraph Markets Pro data team suggests that three types of announcements – listings, staking, and partnerships – have the most consistent impact on digital assets’ prices.

Here are the top five breaking news stories in these categories that had a powerful impact on crypto coin prices in the last thirty days. Presented without input from the Dogefather.

Celo’s partnership with Deutsche Telekom

When a global telecoms giant joins an open-source blockchain ecosystem, it is major news with the immediate potential to shake the market.

When, in the same announcement, the company reveals having purchased a significant bag of the network’s native asset, the outlook for the coin becomes even more bullish.

Sure enough, an April 20 announcement of a strategic partnership between Celo Network and Deutsche Telekom, which checked both boxes, foreshadowed an impressive rally for CELO: almost 75% increase in value over the next 72 hours.

As the chart below illustrates, the coin was trading at just above $4.00 when the news was delivered to Markets Pro members, just before the massive price spike (the circle and white line in the graph). Over the next two days, it pumped all the way to over $7.00.

Binance Staking launches staking promo on IOST

Staking announcements from major platforms can also drive asset prices up significantly, especially when generous annual percentage yields come into pay. Suddenly everyone wants a bag of the token in question to lock in some safe gains.

This April 13 Medium post from IOS Foundation, revealing the launch of a Binance Staking promo with APY of up to 27.49%, saw IOST token gain almost 53% in the next three days.

VeChain’s Partnership with PWC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is a global professional services provider that is counted among the Big Four accounting firms. It serves many companies in technology, finance, and other adjacent sectors that stand to benefit from adoption of blockchain-powered solutions the most.

The news of the enterprise-oriented project VeChain getting access to PWC’s client base was naturally a big deal, as evidenced by VET token’s 46.07% growth within 72 hours from its publication on April 13 (red circle in the graph).

Bitfinex Adding Margin Trading for Dogecoin

In the sentiment-driven cryptocurrency market, Dogecoin is arguably the most sentiment-driven asset. Trading DOGE means always being on top of the news.

But Elon Musk doesn’t get to control every Dogecandle… in fact, real news also moves the DOGE market.

The memecoin’s latest hype cycle provided ample evidence to support this notion. When Bitfinex announced new margin trading pairs featuring DOGE on May 4, the coin’s price went up almost 42%.

Shiba Inu listing in the Binance Innovation Zone

Clearly, the self-styled “Dogecoin Killer” has benefited greatly from the hype surrounding its potential victim. As the Doge publicity wave spilt over to SHIB – a coin that is frequently labelled as Dogecoin’s imitator – Binance bosses decided that the time was ripe for a listing.

As visible in the price chart, the timing was absolutely key here: SHIB’s price exploded within minutes after the news was revealed at 10:44 AM on May 10. An immediate price explosion took the coin from $0.000013 to $0.000037, marking close to 200% gains in less than 24 hours.

Markets Pro NewsQuakes™

One thing that all these newsworthy events have in common is that they were delivered as Discord and browser notifications, or NewsQuakes™, to the members of the Cointelegraph Markets Pro community.

In a game where minutes can make a difference, Markets Pro strives to deliver actionable news as soon as it becomes available.

NewsQuakes™ are sourced from a real-time aggregation engine, collated from over a thousand primary sources every minute and analyzed by an AI algorithm to determine the historical significance of the news. NewsQuakes™ are trained on staking announcements, exchange listings and key partnerships, and because they are delivered without human intervention, they can often be the fastest way for market participants to learn about major events in the cryptocurrency space.

Many NewsQuakes™ are delivered based on Medium posts or other primary sources — often before the exchange listing team even has time to post the same news to Twitter.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro is available exclusively to subscribers on a monthly basis at $99 per month, or annually with two free months included. It carries a 14-day money-back policy, to ensure that it fits the crypto trading and investing research needs of subscribers, and members can cancel anytime.

VORTECS Report: Markets Pro sounds the alert as RUNE, DOGE and XRP skyrocket

April 17, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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Although VORTECS Scores that touched the 90 threshold failed to lift off this week, Markets Pro subscribers received bullish alerts on Dogecoin, XRP and THORChain ahead of massive price rises.

It’s been a spectacular week for the Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS™ Score, which alerted subscribers to several of the top crypto asset price movers hours before the price began to climb.

DOGE analysis

Dogecoin (DOGE) has been the standout performer of the week, confounding analysts who look for fundamental strengths in an asset — the meme coin may not have much of a team, or a genuine use-case, but it has Elon Musk, Mark Cuban… and the support of their millions of fans.

Dogecoin crossed the 80 VORTECS™ line on the morning of April 13, when the price curve was still flat at around $0.073 (first red circle). Apparently, the model has recognized a familiar confluence of celebrity tweets and rising trading volume. Closer to the early hours of April 14, the price line followed suit, pumping all the way to $0.141 (first two red boxes in the graph).

And just as expected, after a rapid climb VORTECS™ anticipated a price decline (second red circle), as has happened many times in the recent past with Dogecoin. Although it was not particularly dramatic, a correction to $0.110 followed in several hours (third red box).

While the 7-day graph above, captured on April 15, demonstrates the VORTECS™ Score operating exactly as hoped, a later capture on April 17 (below) illustrates the limitations of any dynamic modeling algorithm entering unfamiliar territory.

The VORTECS™ Score includes sentiment analysis, tweet and trading volume, and price action as components of the algorithm — which are then weighted according to a proprietary formula based on how similar these are to historical conditions. If there is a similarity in these factors, the score will be higher when historical precedents have most consistently led to higher prices.

But with DOGE this week, there are almost no parallels in history — after breaking all-time highs, the coin just kept climbing. Since VORTECS™ was unable to see historic similarities to this rapid ascent, it stayed fairly neutral after the initial wave of buying (orange box).

XRP analysis

Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency continued its glorious comeback this week after a series of mild setbacks for the Securities and Exchange Commission in their case against the company, making it to the Top Performers section of the second consecutive VORTECS™ report. On April 12, it entered a streak of dark green VORTECS™ scores at around $1.37. Some 12 hours later, it took off to eventually reach $1.93 (first and second red boxes).

RUNE analysis

THORChain recorded a series of high VORTECS™ values during downward price movement toward a low point of $10.67. Roughly 26 hours later, the price began climbing toward the subsequent high point of $16.46, a 54% improvement compared to the moment when the first dark green score was detected.

The IOST NewsQuake™

The April 13 announcement of a Binance staking promo featuring IOStoken carried the asset to a 53% price increase over 24 hours. Note how there are actually two NewsQuake™ symbols on the token’s VORTECS™ graph sitting close to each other. This is not a glitch: Although the substance of the news is nearly identical, one represents a Medium post by IOS Foundation, while the other marks a tweet from Binance’s official account.

In a game where minutes can make a difference, Markets Pro strives to deliver actionable news as soon as it becomes available. NewsQuakes™ are sourced from a real-time aggregation engine, collated from over a thousand primary sources every minute and analyzed by an AI algorithm to determine the historical significance of the news. NewsQuakes™ are trained on staking announcements, exchange listings and key partnerships, and because they are delivered without human intervention, they can often be the fastest way for market participants to learn about major events in the cryptocurrency space.

VORTECS™ Score testing results

Cointelegraph Markets Pro continues to track 42 separate live-tested strategies, using a simple method described here.

These strategies are based on time-based or score-based exits. For example, the current top-performing strategy since testing began is the Buy 90 / Exit after 168 hour strategy, which measures the price of an asset the moment its VORTECS™ Score crosses the 90 threshold, and then again exactly 168 hours from that initial measurement. The difference is the return on investment (ROI) that is recorded.

That strategy has delivered a ROI of 1,837% since January 5, which compares favorably to holding Bitcoin (87% ROI) or holding an equally-weighted basket of altcoins (470% ROI) over the same time period.

However, all strategies have blips — this week, strategies based on entrance points of 90 underperformed those with entry points of 80, illustrating that even the most advanced algorithms can pick a few duds from time to time.

It’s been a spectacular week for the Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS™ Score, which alerted subscribers to several of the top crypto asset price moves hours before the price began to climb.

Time-based strategies: All-time ROI

Score-based strategies: All-time ROI

Time-based strategies: Weekly ROI

Score-based strategies: Weekly ROI

Important Disclaimer

VORTECS Report: Coinbase NewsQuake drives Markets Pro gains as Enjin soars

April 9, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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As the Coinbase effect sends Enjin and other crypto tokens skyward, Markets Pro subscribers benefit from headlines delivered directly to their mobile devices.

The so-called “Coinbase effect” has been analyzed multiple times by data firms like The TIE and Messari, and the verdict remains clear: Crypto traders who pounce on new Coinbase listings within seconds of their announcement often see substantial gains.

Which is why this week’s VORTECS™ Report focuses primarily on a couple of big wins for subscribers to Cointelegraph Markets Pro through the NewsQuake™ service, which delivers market-moving news directly to a dedicated Discord channel and via in-browser alerts at breakneck speed.

As illustrated in the chart, the price of Enjin Coin (ENJ), one of the tokens listed by Coinbase this week, had been gradually dipping after a major rally in March. As soon as the Coinbase news broke, however, the price of ENJ soared from a low of around $2.13 to over $3.90 — with the first few minutes of trading accounting for a substantial portion of that appreciation.

The NewsQuake™ was delivered to Markets Pro subscribers within a minute of Coinbase’s tweet (yellow circle). And while it’s possible that a Twitter user who was actually staring at Coinbase’s feed at the time of the announcement would see the information more rapidly, there are few dedicated enough to do so 24 hours per day.

On other occasions, NewsQuakes™ are actually delivered before Twitter users get wind of an announcement. For instance, OKEx's own blog post on the listing of Konomi Network's KONO token appeared at 7:06 am UTC on April 7. The announcement was posted to the Cointelegraph Markets Pro Discord channel in the same minute, but didn’t appear on Twitter until 7:36 am UTC.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro also offers the VORTECS™ Score, an algorithmically derived weighted score that compares current market conditions to historically similar marketscapes.

The score comprises a number of factors:

Volume: A measure of how much of an asset is traded across supported exchanges.

Outlook: A measure of whether the current market conditions are favorable or not, compared with historically similar conditions.

RealPrice: A composite price derived from an average of prices across relevant exchanges.

Tweet Volume: A measure of the absolute and relative number of tweets about an asset over the past 24 hours.

Elevation: A measure of how far up or down an asset’s price moved following historically similar market conditions to those observed currently.

Confidence: The degree to which current conditions are similar to historic conditions, with higher confidence also including the consistency of asset price moves following those conditions.

Sentiment: The positivity or negativity of the chatter on Twitter surrounding the crypto asset, derived from a complex proprietary algorithm developed by The TIE.

This week’s VORTECS™ results somewhat underperformed the score’s historical averages, lending credence to the theory that even when optimized for a 24-hour timeframe following the identification of such marketscapes, long-term results are more representative of the score’s analysis than one-week windows.

Of the 42 strategies currently analyzed by the Markets Pro team, the top-performing strategy since inception on Jan. 5 remains a time-based one, wherein the algorithm notes the price of any crypto asset that crosses a particular VORTECS™ Score and checks it again after a given period of time.

Markets Pro also analyzes a variety of score-based strategies (Buy at 85 / Exit at 75 and so on), which have also consistently outperformed the market. A full description of the testing methodology is available.

As of April 7, the top strategy (Buy at 90 / Exit at 168 hours) had returned 1,927% since Jan. 5, which compares favorably to holding Bitcoin (76%) or an equally weighted basket of the top 100 altcoins (365%).

Time-based strategies: All-time ROI

Score-based strategies: All-time ROI

Time-based strategies: Weekly ROI

Score-based strategies: Weekly ROI

Important Disclaimer

VORTECS Report: Storage coins rev up gains as Markets Pro rides the green wave

April 4, 2021 Coin Telegraph

Altcoin

Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivered a market-moving NewsQuake on Storj to subscribers this week, while the VORTECS Score picked up bullish conditions for Filecoin.

It’s been another great week for altcoins as the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies moves within spitting distance of the $2 trillion mark.

And it’s been equally positive for the Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform, which tracks crypto market conditions and real-time headline news in the blockchain industry to deliver market intelligence for every investor.

Markets Pro offers two unique features: The VORTECS™ Score, an algorithmically-derived weighted score that compares current market conditions to historically-similar marketscapes, and NewsQuakes™ — the industry’s most rapid aggregator of market-moving news, analyzed and collated from over a thousand primary sources every minute.

In this weekly report we analyze the most important highlights from the week’s events on Markets Pro.

Top VORTECS™ Score gains this week

Between March 26 and April 1, the three best-performing assets identified by Cointelegraph Markets Pro were Storj (+121%), Filecoin (+115%), and Holochain (+111%). All three rode green waves powered by patterns of trading and social activity that the VORTECS™ model has seen before — as described in our description of how the algorithm works.

Analyzing STORJ

As the graph above demonstrates, the cloud storage token STORJ recorded a streak of high VORTECS™ scores, marked by the first red circle, roughly 60 hours before the price spike on April 1 (first and second red boxes).

This price increase could also be explained by the effect of Storj-USDT margin swaps being listed on Huobi Futures the same day, an announcement captured in a NewsQuake™. Those using Markets Pro intelligence in their market research had the advantage of this powerful dual-validation pointing to both historically auspicious market conditions and favorable news around the asset following its recent listing on Coinbase.

Analyzing Filecoin (FIL) and Holochain (HOT)

Indeed, this has been a good week for storage coins. The second-best performer, Filecoin, pulled off a rally that saw it appreciate from around $125 to $233 in two days.

As seen in the graph above, some 24 hours before the price took off Filecoin’s VORTECS™ Score ventured into the 80+ territory for a few hours, marked by the red circle.

The rise of another big winner of the week, Holochain (seen below), also unfolded following a sequence of strong VORTECS™ scores, ranging from high 60s to high 70s, with a peak of 82 (red circle in the graph) coming around 50 hours before the asset began its ascent from $0.010 to $0.019.

Understanding VORTECS™: The relationship between the score and Newsquakes™

Some users wondered whether NewsQuakes™ are a constituent part of the VORTECS™ score. The short answer is no. These are two completely different functionalities within Markets Pro that can complement each other but can also be used separately.

In fact, some of the NewsQuakes™ feature assets for which the score is not yet generated: One example is this week’s announcement of a partnership between DAFI and DIA saw the latter asset, not yet indexed by the VORTECS™ model, appreciate by almost 22%.

That said, oftentimes the two work in conjunction. The example of Filecoin already mentioned above showcases how a high VORTECS™ score and a subsequent NewsQuake™ can be used to boost users’ confidence that the conditions for a coin are favorable.

In other cases, a positive VORTECS™ score can follow the news: Once a favorable announcement is absorbed by market participants, trading and social conditions can align into a pattern that the model identifies as bullish. And sometimes, the two can be completely unrelated.

Analyzing 0x (ZRX)

The graph above shows the price of 0x starting to climb steadily after the news of the asset’s listing on OKEx went public — all while the VORTECS™ score remained neutral.

Testing results: Week’s top strategies

This week, 17 of the 42 VORTECS™ strategies currently tested outperformed both Bitcoin and an evenly weighted portfolio of all the top 100 altcoins. Of those strategies, 8 were score-based (Buy at VORTECS™ X / Sell at VORTECS™ Y) and 9 were time-based (Buy at VORTECS™ X / Sell after Y hours).

The table below contains information on ROI that the top-5 strategies of the week have generated up to April 1st 2021. For more context, you can also see these strategies’ monthly and all-time returns (tracked since January 5th 2021).

These strategies are designed to represent benchmarks for the VORTECS™ model’s aggregate performance. To discover how these tests are performed, consult the methodology help file.

Testing results: All-time leaders

The table below presents three best all-time strategies in each category (score-based and time-based) and their performance this week. As the table demonstrates, strategies that do well in the long run can have a downward blip in any given week: Buy at 90 / Sell after 168 hours is a particularly conspicuous example this time. At the same time, two of the all-time best have also had a solid showing this week.

New alerts system

A total of 107 VORTECS™ hit Markets Pro users this week, featuring 27 different coins.

One of the most frequent requests we’ve been getting from the community is to enable notifications at different levels of the VORTECS™ score. There are now 12 dedicated Discord channels designed to alert subscribers when an asset goes above or below a specific threshold.

Powerful NewsQuakes™

A total of 86 NewsQuake™ notifications went out to the Cointelegraph Markets Pro community this week, including 44 exchange listings, 25 partnerships, and 17 staking announcements.

Markets Pro also tracks the most consequential news identified by NewsQuakes™ and the price action of various crypto assets following the headline. This week the most consequential news items were followed by significant price gains over the course of the week:

· Storj listing on Coinbase: +161% peak return

· Ankr Network listing on Coinbase: +109% peak return

· Filecoin’s partnership with Chainlink: +48% peak return

Cointelegraph Markets Pro is available exclusively to subscribers on a monthly basis at $99 per month, or annually with two free months included. It carries a 14-day money-back policy to ensure that it fits the crypto trading and investing research needs of subscribers, and members can cancel anytime.

Important disclaimer

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing. Consult your financial advisor before making financial decisions. Full terms and conditions.

Markets Pro delivers up to 1,497% ROI as quant-style crypto analysis arrives for every investor

March 25, 2021 Coin Telegraph

Analysis

41 of the 42 trading strategies tested by Markets Pro are currently beating Bitcoin's investment returns, and 36 of them are winning against an evenly weighted basket of the top 100 altcoins.

In the month since Cointelegraph Markets Pro launched, bringing professional crypto market intelligence to every investor, the platform has helped hundreds of early subscribers to better understand the opportunities and threats inherent in the world of crypto investing and trading.

In this brief round-up, we wanted to draw attention to some of the highlights since the platform went live, including a critical look at a variety of back-tested strategies that the Markets Pro team has been tracking.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro consists of two unique research features, in addition to a wide variety of market performance metrics and access to a vibrant community of crypto enthusiasts on Discord.

VORTECS™ Score

The VORTECS™ Score is derived from an algorithm that examines multiple different variables (including sentiment, tweet volume, price volatility and trading volume) and compares those with historically similar marketscapes. The algorithm is capable of parsing through millions of historical data points each day, comparing what’s going on right now with prior conditions for the 140-plus assets currently tracked.

A high VORTECS™ Score suggests that current market conditions — across all of those variables — are similar to conditions in the past where the asset has seen appreciation over the next several days. And the higher the score, the more consistent the behavior of the asset’s price in the past.

History doesn't repeat... but apparently, it often rhymes. The VORTECS™ Score was created to provide every crypto market participant with the kind of quantitative analysis that has previously only been available to major institutional investors.

NewsQuakes™

NewsQuakes™ are alerts on events that have historically had a significant impact on an asset's price over the following 24 hours. Our research has found that exchange listings, staking announcements and partnership announcements have had the most consistently positive impact.

NewsQuakes™ are built on top of The TIE’s proprietary SigDev technology — the fastest, most comprehensive feed for tracking real-time market-moving news in the cryptocurrency space. SigDev is used by major hedge funds, over-the-counter desks, market makers and other institutional market participants to gain an edge. NewsQuakes™ are delivered both in-browser and via Discord alerts direct to mobile devices.

In addition to institutions, news outlets like Cointelegraph (and our largest media competitor) use The TIE’s SigDev platform to identify critical breaking news stories from primary sources.

Among the most notable NewsQuakes™ are new exchange listings. For example, the average Coinbase listing in 2020 (from the time it was announced to the day the asset was available for trading) generated a 50.4% return.

Some notable NewsQuakes™ over the past month include this alert on Ocean Protocol after the announcement that OCEAN would be listed on Kraken. The first red circle illustrates when the alert was sent to community members in the private Markets Pro Discord channel

Another example of the NewsQuakes™ system delivering news at a critical time can be seen in this chart, showing the rapid escalation in the price of MATIC following the announcement of its integration with Binance staking.

VORTECS™ performance

Cointelegraph Markets Pro tracks the performance of 42 different trading strategies on an hourly basis, both cumulatively since the launch of the algorithm on Jan. 5 and for a rolling week.

Strategies are divided into two camps: time-based and score-based.

In each case, Markets Pro tracks the performance of the score vs. the U.S. dollar, as well as vs. holding Bitcoin and vs. holding an evenly weighted basket of the top 100 altcoins to ensure that testing accounts for wider market movements. A full testing methodology is available.

Time-based strategies

Time-based strategies involve tracking the performance of a crypto asset from the moment its VORTECS™ Score crosses a key threshold until a specific time period has elapsed. For example, Buy 80/Hold 168 hours or Buy 90/Hold 24 hours.

Of the 20 time-based strategies tracked by Markets Pro, all 20 have beaten simply holding Bitcoin, and 19 have beaten both the altcoin basket and Bitcoin since Jan. 5.

The most successful of these strategies has been the Buy 90/Sell 168 strategy, which has returned 1,497.9% in that period, compared with 72.4% for Bitcoin and 325.7% for altcoins.

The least successful has been the Buy 90/Sell 48 hours strategy, which returned 150.4%.

The average return of all tested strategies was 510%.

Score-based strategies

Scored-based strategies involve tracking the performance of a crypto asset from the moment its VORTECS™ Score crosses a key threshold until it reaches another key threshold. For example, Buy 80/Sell 75 or Buy 90/Sell 65.

Of the 22 score-based strategies tracked by Markets Pro, 21 have beaten simply holding Bitcoin, and 15 have beaten both the altcoin basket and Bitcoin since Jan. 5.

The most successful of these strategies has been the Buy 80/Sell 65 score, which has returned 759.7% in that period, compared with 72.4% for Bitcoin and 235.7% for altcoins.

The least successful has been the Buy 85/Sell 75 strategy, which returned 13.6% — and was the only strategy that failed to beat Bitcoin’s return over this period.

The average return of all tested strategies was 368.3%.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro is available exclusively to subscribers on a monthly basis at $99 per month, or annually with two free months included. It carries a 14-day money-back policy to ensure that it fits the crypto trading and investing research needs of subscribers, and members can cancel anytime.

Important disclaimer

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing. Consult your financial advisor before making financial decisions. Full terms and conditions.

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