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Post is by: XRP-GORILLA and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sikb8r/why_my_algo_went_silent_this_week_and_why_i_think/ I've been running an algorithmic trading system for a few months now. This week it barely fired. At first that frustrated me. Then I looked at the data. The bot has a regime detector built in. When it classifies the market as RANGING — no directional trend, just chop — it blocks all entries. No trades. Full stop. This week most of the coins I track were flagged as RANGING. So it sat on its hands. Here's the thing — I went back and looked at what would have happened if it had traded during ranging conditions. 42.6% win rate. Negative expectancy. Death by a thousand cuts. In BULL\_TREND — 100% win rate. BEAR\_TREND — 100% win rate. The silence wasn't a bug. It was the system doing exactly what it was designed to do — protect capital when there's no real edge. Most retail traders feel compelled to trade constantly. The algo doesn't care about feelings. No edge, no trade. Full stop. Curious if anyone else builds regime filtering into their systems or if you just trade through the chop? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
GORILLA, it's gonna be huge, some even say the biggest ever.