Ethereum: trend-following strategy vs buy & hold
Crypto · tracked with Ether (ETH-USD)
Ethereum, launched in 2015, is the largest smart-contract platform: a blockchain on which other applications — decentralised finance, stablecoins, tokens — are built. Ether (ETH) is its native asset and pays for transactions.
Growth of 100 since 2017
buy & hold · total returnBuy & hold total return of Ether (ETH-USD). The Strategy Alpha results and live signal for Ethereum are part of Plus.
What drives Ethereum
Ether follows crypto-market liquidity and Bitcoin, plus activity on its network. Since 2022 it runs on proof of stake, so holders can earn staking yield.
How a trend-following strategy handles Ethereum
Ether is even more volatile than Bitcoin, with spectacular rallies and drawdowns well beyond 70%. In markets like this, cutting the deepest declines can matter more for the final result than catching every rally.
Our Strategy Alpha applies the same simple, rules-based trend filter to every market: invested while the trend is up, in Treasury bills while it is down, checked once a month. It is not a forecast — it is a discipline that aims to keep most of the long climbs and sit out the deepest drawdowns.
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