VVDEXOPS
Open research · short-horizon crypto

We test whether crypto is predictable over minutes — and publish what fails.

Most trading content shows you the wins. This shows everything: the hypotheses we registered before we had the data, every prediction the engine made, every outcome, and the studies that killed our own best ideas.

I · Headline result
Forward predictions
597
committed, settled
Our accuracy
68.3%
directional
Market implied
69.7%
at the same instant
Edge after fees
−0.028
acc − price − fee

The engine is right 68.3% of the time. The market was right 69.7%.

M6E reads order flow and momentum and, five minutes into every 15-minute Bitcoin cycle, commits to a direction. Over 597 forward predictions it called direction correctly 68.3% of the time.

That number sounds good. It is not an edge — and why is the most useful thing here. At the moment the engine committed, the prediction market's own price already implied 69.7%. We were not beating the market. We were tracking it, slightly behind, and paying fees for the privilege.

Forward ledger 2026-07-02 → 2026-07-21 · 887 settled cycles · BTC 15-minute · dry-run
II · Hypothesis register

We write down what would prove us wrong — before we have the data.

Every engine is registered here first with a numeric gate it must clear and the sample size required. The register is timestamped and append-only. Once a gate is published in advance, a failed result cannot be quietly reinterpreted as a success.

HypothesisRegisteredGate to promotenResultStatus
M6E-COMMITTED-v1all committed tiers · minute 5 2026-07-03 accuracy ≥ 0.7178 at n ≥ 100 597 0.683 FAILED
M6E-E3-v1highest-conviction tier only 2026-07-06 edge lower bound > 0 152 −0.036 RUNNING

The first hypothesis failed its own gate. We publish that, because the alternative — moving the goalposts after seeing the data — is how most trading claims on the internet are manufactured.

III · Findings — tested, then abandoned
Refuted
Does a 68% accurate predictor make money?

No. Accuracy minus price minus fees was negative in every tier. The market had already priced in what the model knew.

Refuted
Do stop-losses and take-profits help?

No — worse in every configuration tested. On a high-probability binary the losing side drifts then gaps, so a stop triggers on noise or arrives far too late.

Refuted
Is a dip inside a winning cycle a discount?

No — the dip is a loss detector, not a discount. Dips ≥4c appear in 51–55% of winners but 78–95% of losers, three to five times deeper.

Refuted
Can the model see the move before the book?

Not this one. It converges at the same speed as the order book, not ahead of it. Tested commitment at minutes 1–5; no horizon cleared the price with confidence.

Refuted
Our backtest showed +38%. Real?

No. Look-ahead bias — it priced a late, matured signal at an early, cheap price. We found it ourselves. It is the reason this site exists.

Confirmed
How often is the market's own price right?

Strikingly often. Across every probability band, win rate matched price. A contract at 70c wins about 70% of the time — the bar everything else must clear.

IV · Instruments — free, no account

Order-flow tooling is normally the expensive tier — footprint charts, liquidation maps and real volume delta sit behind €40–200/month subscriptions, or at minimum a signup form. We already run this infrastructure for our own research, so we are opening it up.

IN BUILD

Cumulative volume delta

Real taker buy/sell imbalance from a millisecond trade tape — measured, not estimated from candles.

usually a paid charting tier
IN BUILD

Live trade tape

Every print as it lands, filterable by size, so large orders are visible in real time.

IN BUILD

Liquidation feed & map

Forced liquidations as they fire, and where leverage is stacked.

usually a paid tier
IN BUILD

Footprint & volume profile

Volume at price inside each candle.

usually €40–200 / month
IN BUILD

Funding · OI · basis

What perpetual traders are paying to hold their positions.

IN BUILD

Cross-venue divergence

Where venues disagree on price, in real time.

V · Method — how to check any of this

Pre-registration

Hypotheses and their pass/fail gates are published before results exist, so they cannot be adjusted afterwards.

Every call, including losses

The full ledger — wins, losses, abstentions — downloadable as CSV. Not a highlight reel.

Always against the market

Every accuracy figure is shown beside what the market's price implied at the same instant.

Published method

The feature definitions behind the engine are being open-sourced, so the work can be reproduced and criticised.

Nothing for sale

No signals, no subscriptions, no private group, no affiliate links. There is no account to create.

Stated sample sizes

Every number carries its n and date range. A result without a sample size is not a result.