Four questions, twelve votes behind each answer
Everything the system does comes out of two mechanisms. A panel of indicators turns one market into one number, and a fixed order of questions turns those numbers into a place for the money to sit. Nothing else is involved.
Twelve instruments vote, and you read one number
Every market the system watches gets its own panel of twelve indicators looking at the same daily chart. Six of them follow the trend itself. Six measure momentum, which is whether the move is speeding up or running out. Each one votes up or down. The votes are averaged into a single score between minus one and plus one.
Because twelve votes are averaged, the score can only land on thirteen values, one sixth apart. +1.00 means all twelve agree the trend is up. -1.00 means all twelve say down. +0.17 is the weakest possible yes, seven for and five against. Only the sign drives the decision: above zero the answer is yes, at or below zero the answer is no.
Twelve is used instead of one because any single indicator is wrong regularly and in its own particular way. Averaging twelve of them does not make the system right more often, it makes it wrong less violently. A panel changes its mind slowly, which is the whole point when the alternative is flipping the book on a single noisy day.
The indicator list and its settings stay private
Which twelve, at which settings, with which filters, and how they were tuned is the part that took the work. It is not published here, and you do not need it to understand or operate the system. Everything that governs your behaviour is on this site: the order of the questions, the sizing, the timing, and the rules for pressing the button.
Each rung only gets asked if the one above it said yes
Read it top to bottom. Every rung below is measured against the answer above it.
Why this order
Question one is the survival question. It looks at the value of the whole crypto market at once, not at any single coin. When that turns down, nothing further along the ladder matters, because in a real crypto bear market almost every coin falls together and picking the best one is picking the least bad loser.
Question two sets the yardstick. Once the system is in crypto it has to choose between Bitcoin and Ethereum, and it does that by looking at the two of them against each other rather than against the dollar. Everything on the mid cap rung is then measured against that winner, so a smaller coin only qualifies by beating the strongest thing already in the book.
Question three is where the money goes when crypto is out. Gold first, because it tends to hold up when risk assets do not. If gold is weak too, the S&P 500 takes the place of cash whenever its own trend is positive, since sitting in currency while shares trend up is its own kind of loss. Only when all three fail does the book actually sit in cash.
Question four is the only one that can be answered more than once. Six mid caps each carry their own ratio against the major. Any number of them can qualify on the same day, from none to all six, and the sizing rules turn that list into dollars.
When the answer is cash, cash still has a currency
Holding cash is not a single decision, it is two. The ladder decides that the book should be out of every market. A separate panel on the euro against the dollar then decides which of the two that money sits in. Euro stronger, the book holds euros. Dollar stronger, it holds dollars.
This rung is the quietest one in the system. Over the recent sample the ladder sat in cash on a minority of days, and the euro side of that was rarer still. It is included because the alternative is holding whichever currency you happen to think in, which is a position nobody chose.
The euro leg is a third party market
The euro position is taken as a perpetual contract on Hyperliquid, deployed by an independent party rather than by the exchange itself. The book there is thin, the contract charges or pays funding for as long as it is held, and its price comes from that deployer's own oracle. It is a real position with real risks that the other rungs do not carry.
The honest limits of a trend system
It always turns late. A trend has to break before the panel notices, so every exit happens below the high and every entry happens above the low. That is not a flaw to be tuned out, it is the price of only acting on completed information.
It gets chopped up sideways. In a market that goes nowhere for months, the panel flips back and forth, selling and buying back a few percent higher, several times a year. Those losses are real and they are already inside every result the system has produced.
It will not protect you from yourself. The rules are simple enough to follow and simple enough to override. The beginner page spends most of its length on that problem, because it is the one that actually costs people money.