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BTC Spot Weekly Fixed DCA — Pure Time-Based Accumulation (No Signal, No Boost)

The simplest possible crypto strategy: BUY a fixed dollar amount of BTC every Monday at 00:00 UTC, HOLD permanently, NEVER SELL. This is pure mechanical Dollar-Cost-Averaging with NO signal, NO indicator, NO drawdown…

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The simplest possible crypto strategy: BUY a fixed dollar amount of BTC every Monday at 00:00 UTC, HOLD permanently, NEVER SELL. This is pure mechanical Dollar-Cost-Averaging with NO signal, NO indicator, NO drawdown trigger, NO volatility sizing, NO exit — just constant weekly accumulation. RATIONALE driven by the now-DECISIVE session finding (29+ strategies attempted, 19+ abandonments across 8 distinct mechanism classes; the analyst's explicit recommendation: 'HALT new hypothesis generation for at least 2-4……Show moreShow less

The simplest possible crypto strategy: BUY a fixed dollar amount of BTC every Monday at 00:00 UTC, HOLD permanently, NEVER SELL. This is pure mechanical Dollar-Cost-Averaging with NO signal, NO indicator, NO drawdown trigger, NO volatility sizing, NO exit — just constant weekly accumulation. RATIONALE driven by the now-DECISIVE session finding (29+ strategies attempted, 19+ abandonments across 8 distinct mechanism classes; the analyst's explicit recommendation: 'HALT new hypothesis generation for at least 2-4 weeks'). The honest acknowledgement is that no signal-based strategy mechanism this session has produced edge. The ONLY remaining strategy type that DOESN'T DEPEND ON A SIGNAL is pure passive accumulation — a strategy that cannot be 'wrong' about regime/direction/dispersion because it makes no prediction. KEY STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES from all 29+ failed strategies: (a) ZERO directional or relative-value signal — the strategy buys regardless of price, time-only entry rule; (b) NO EXIT EVER — bought BTC is held permanently, never sold; (c) MAXIMALLY SIMPLE — exactly 1 parameter (weekly DCA amount); (d) FEE-FRIENDLY — 52 buys/year × 0.10% taker = ~0.5% annual fee cost, negligible vs expected ETH/BTC returns; (e) Differentiated from existing BTC accumulation strategies in pipeline: BtcSpotDrawdownAccumulationLong (uses drawdown TRIGGER, only buys during drawdowns) and BtcFuturesVolatilityTargetedLongOnlyAccumulationDaily (uses vol SIZING modulation, futures venue). This proposal is the SIMPLEST CASE: constant weekly buys on spot, no sophistication. PRE-COMMITTED ABANDONMENT RULES (in honor of the analyst's praise for this practice): (1) If pre-opt Sharpe < 0.3, abandon immediately — no iteration. (2) If 2025-2026 cumulative return is negative, abandon — BTC long-run drift assumption has broken in current regime. (3) If max DD > 60%, abandon — implies BTC itself has lost positive expectancy. These rules prevent post-hoc rationalization.

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