ETH Trading Strategies & Market Data
Compare systematic ETH trading strategies. Track the current ETH funding rate, perpetual futures open interest, 30-day historical volatility, Sharpe ratio and maximum drawdown in one place.
Automated ETH trading strategies.
| Strategy | Type | ROI (30D) | Sharpe (lifetime) | Max DD (lifetime) | Win rate (lifetime) | Equity curve (30D) | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hackworth OptimaShort HIGH SHARPE | Multi-Alpha | +2.52% | 1.80 | -32.56% | 46.9% | OPEN | Details↗ | |
Hackworth Prime POPULAR | Multi-Alpha | +2.35% | 1.61 | -37.22% | 46.9% | OPEN | Details↗ | |
Hackworth Trend POPULAR | Multi-Alpha | +1.54% | 1.22 | -39.51% | 46.9% | OPEN | Details↗ | |
Archimedes SOTAVIP | Multi-Alpha | -3.22% | 3.53 | -12.02% | 46.9% | OPEN | Details↗ |
ETH strategy details
Hackworth Prime · ETH
Ethereum’s broader market cycle gives Prime ETH its clearest context. Its strongest historical phases developed when crypto markets were advancing, and those phases did much of the work in its cumulative progress. Broad crypto uptrends provide the clearest historical basis for choosing this ETH approach.
Signature Strength
Its strongest historical growth phases occurred during broad crypto uptrends.
A Role to Consider
Put the emphasis on capturing broad-market growth phases. Prime ETH recorded the strongest average uptrend results in the ETH trio, with daily variability between the family’s other two approaches.
Hackworth Trend · ETH
Conviction comes through in Trend ETH’s design: the family places greater emphasis on long signals. Its recorded behavior gives that design a clear setting, with positive average progress during broad crypto uptrends. The result is an assertive Ethereum approach with an understandable link between its intended style and its most productive historical environment.
Signature Strength
A more long-oriented design paired with positive average historical results during broad crypto advances.
A Role to Consider
Choose on trading-design preference: this is the ETH variant with greater emphasis on long signals. Its historical progress was concentrated in broad uptrends, aligning that design with a clearly rally-oriented role.
Hackworth OptimaShort · ETH
The OptimaShort name sits alongside a history of meaningful participation in broad crypto rallies. For ETH, advancing markets supplied the strongest average progress, while sideways periods also contributed. Its character combines the family’s short and mean-reversion orientation with an observed ability to take part in a growing market.
Signature Strength
Positive average historical progress in both broad uptrends and sideways markets.
A Role to Consider
Combine rally participation with a measured pace within the ETH family. It had the trio’s most restrained historical daily variability, alongside positive average progress in both uptrends and sideways markets.
Archimedes · ETH
Archimedes ETH makes the payoff from each opportunity count. The size of its winning positions played an important role in its historical progress, and distinct advances contributed meaningfully to the overall curve. Its selective character centers on how much a successful opportunity contributes to the portfolio.
Signature Strength
The contribution of winning positions to cumulative progress is its clearest historical distinction.
A Role to Consider
Prioritize the payoff from successful positions when comparing strategies. ETH’s historical profile makes that contribution especially prominent, giving it a clear selection case for users focused on the value captured from each opportunity.
Live ETH price and market data.
About ETH.
Ethereum is the largest smart-contract platform and the base settlement layer for most of DeFi, stablecoins, and tokenized assets. Its price reflects both a Bitcoin-correlated risk-asset beta and idiosyncratic drivers tied to network usage, staking yield, and the supply burned by transaction fees.
For a systematic trader ETH offers deeper derivatives liquidity than any coin except BTC, with a more volatile, more mean-reverting profile — the staking yield and burn mechanics give it a genuine carry component that BTC lacks, which shows up in richer funding-rate dynamics.
BTC beta and risk-on flows
ETH still trades as a leveraged read on broader crypto risk appetite.
Staking yield and issuance
Post-Merge net issuance is state-dependent, feeding a real carry signal.
L2 and DeFi activity
Gas burn and on-chain usage swing the effective supply growth rate.
ETF and institutional flows
Spot ETF flows are smaller than BTC's but move price on quiet days.
Recent news.
Headlines moving ETH right now.
ETH volatility and risk.
ETH at 38.9% annualised volatility is the calmest crypto market we trade and still 2.1 times the S&P 500.
ETH trading strategy FAQ.
What is the best ETH trading strategy?
By 30-day ROI, Hackworth OptimaShort is currently on top: 2.5%, with a 1.77 Sharpe ratio and a 3.7% worst drawdown.
Do I have to predict where ETH goes?
No. You choose a strategy and an allocation; the model decides direction, size and timing. 3 of the 4 are net-neutral on average.
How is this different from holding Ethereum?
Holding took a 65.4% peak-to-trough loss over this period. The strategies hold ETH exposure part of the time and hedge or flip short in downtrends.
What is the minimum allocation?
1,000 USDC per strategy. Capital stays in your own account; AlphaNet holds trading permission only.
Can these strategies short ETH?
Yes. All 4 run long, short or flat on the perpetual, and Hackworth OptimaShort is short-biased by design.
What happens if a strategy stops working?
Every model runs under an alpha-decay monitor. Drifting strategies are capped, retrained or retired, and their full history stays published here.
How do automated ETH trading strategies work?
The model trades the ETH perpetual long, short or flat — direction, size and timing all set from market data. Capital stays in your own account.
What do ETH funding rate and open interest indicate?
Positive funding means crowded longs paying shorts; negative means the reverse. Open interest is the total outstanding contracts on the ETH perpetual.