PENGU Trading Strategies & Market Data

Compare systematic PENGU trading strategies. Track the current PENGU funding rate, perpetual futures open interest, 30-day historical volatility, Sharpe ratio and maximum drawdown in one place.

STRATEGIES

Automated PENGU trading strategies.

AlphaNet StrategiesData as of · OCT 6, 2026 UTC
StrategyTypeROI (30D)Sharpe (lifetime)Max DD (lifetime)Win rate (lifetime)Equity curve (30D)Capacity
Hackworth Trend
HIGH SHARPE
Multi-Alpha+4.56%1.88-25.85%52.1%OPENDetails↗
Hackworth Prime
HIGH SHARPE
Multi-Alpha+4.36%2.15-29.92%52.1%OPENDetails↗
Hackworth OptimaShort
HIGH SHARPE
Multi-Alpha+2.60%2.57-25.77%52.1%OPENDetails↗

PENGU strategy details

Hackworth Prime · PENGU

Prime PENGU’s curve advances in bursts. A relatively small number of large positive observations made a meaningful contribution to its recorded growth, with broad ranges its most productive ordinary setting. It has an agile character, and the timing of those distinct growth phases is central to understanding its history.

Signature Strength

Broad ranges were its most productive historical setting; distinct large growth episodes contributed meaningfully to the curve.

A Role to Consider

A middle setting within PENGU’s burst-driven strategies. Its historical daily movement sat between Trend and OptimaShort, with broad ranges supplying its strongest average results.

Hackworth Trend · PENGU

Large growth episodes give Trend PENGU its unmistakable pace. Its recorded daily movement was particularly pronounced, and its strongest average results came in broad ranges, with uptrends also productive. The profile is assertive and eventful, with progress concentrated in memorable stretches of the curve.

Signature Strength

Strong historical average results in broad ranges and advances, with growth often arriving in bursts.

A Role to Consider

Choose the most assertive expression of PENGU’s growth episodes. Trend led its family on published cumulative return and sampled average results in both broad ranges and uptrends.

Hackworth OptimaShort · PENGU

OptimaShort PENGU combines a measured daily tempo within its asset family with a curve shaped by distinct growth episodes. Broad advances and ranges were similarly productive. That pairing gives it a recognizable place in the PENGU range: selective in character, with more than one historically productive market setting.

Signature Strength

Comparable average progress in ranges and uptrends, with a measured daily pace within the PENGU family.

A Role to Consider

Keep exposure to PENGU’s distinct growth episodes with the family’s most measured historical daily pace. Its average progress was similar in broad rallies and consolidation.

PRICE

Live PENGU price and market data.

PENGU Spot Price
$0.0091
Latest · Oct 06, 2026
$0.00K$0.00K$0.00K$0.00KDec 2024May 2025Nov 2025Apr 2026Oct 2026
PENGU Funding Rate & Open Interest on Hyperliquid
PENGU Funding rate+0.0013%
PENGU Open interest14.44M
PENGU 30-day volatility98.2%
PENGU 24h volume8.86M
PENGU 24h liquidationUnavailable
Correlation // 90D
BTC
0.67
ETH
0.58
SOL
0.64
DOGE
0.75
SPX
0.36
1 month+7.7%
Year to date-4.1%
1 year-70.1%
All-time high$0.0432
12-month low$0.0057
THE ASSET

About PENGU.

Pudgy Penguins' PENGU is a memecoin tied to one of the most recognizable NFT brands in crypto, extending the Pudgy Penguins IP — toys, licensing deals, retail partnerships — into a fungible token. Like most memecoins its price is driven almost entirely by social attention and brand momentum rather than any cash-flow or utility fundamental.

For a systematic trader PENGU is the highest-volatility, thinnest-liquidity market on this list — a genuinely retail-driven, narrative-first asset where trend signals can reverse violently on social-sentiment shifts, so models size it smallest and lean hardest on funding/open-interest extremes as a contrarian tell.

WHAT MOVES THE PRICE
01

Social attention and brand momentum

Sentiment on social platforms moves PENGU faster and further than any fundamentals-driven asset here.

02

IP licensing and retail partnerships

Toy and merchandise deals occasionally drive real-world-attention-linked rallies.

03

Memecoin sector rotation

Capital rotating in/out of the broader memecoin trade swings PENGU independent of majors.

04

Perp funding and leverage

The most retail-dominated, most leverage-sensitive market in the list — funding extremes are the strongest contrarian signal here.

VOLATILITY

PENGU volatility and risk.

PENGU at 98.2% annualised volatility is 2.6× BTC's volatility and still 5.3 times the S&P 500.

30D Realised Volatility
0%25%50%75%100%OCT 2025JAN 2026APR 2026JUL 2026OCT 2026
CURRENT
98.2%
12M HIGH
148.7%
12M LOW
54.4%
VS BTC
2.6×
Worst Drawdown // Strategy vs Holding
Hackworth Trend
25.9%
Hackworth Prime
29.9%
Hackworth OptimaShort
25.8%
Holding PENGU
86.7%
FAQ

PENGU trading strategy FAQ.

What is the best PENGU trading strategy?

By 30-day ROI, Hackworth Trend is currently on top: 4.6%, with a 2.57 Sharpe ratio and a 6.4% worst drawdown.

Do I have to predict where PENGU goes?

No. You choose a strategy and an allocation; the model decides direction, size and timing. 2 of the 3 are net-neutral on average.

How is this different from holding Pudgy Penguins?

Holding took a 82.3% peak-to-trough loss over this period. The strategies hold PENGU 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 PENGU?

Yes. All 3 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 PENGU trading strategies work?

The model trades the PENGU perpetual long, short or flat — direction, size and timing all set from market data. Capital stays in your own account.

What do PENGU 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 PENGU perpetual.