SOL Trading Strategies & Market Data

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

STRATEGIES

Automated SOL 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 OptimaShort
HIGH SHARPE
Multi-Alpha+5.61%2.49-23.89%55.9%OPENDetails↗
Hackworth Prime
HIGH SHARPE
Multi-Alpha+5.17%2.09-25.70%55.9%OPENDetails↗
Hackworth Trend
POPULAR
Multi-Alpha+5.00%1.65-33.87%55.9%OPENDetails↗
Archimedes
SOTAVIP
Multi-Alpha-2.81%3.29-11.45%55.9%OPENDetails↗

SOL strategy details

Hackworth Prime · SOL

Flexibility is visible in the balance of Prime SOL’s results: broad uptrends and ranges were similarly productive, and downtrends also contributed positively. Daily performance had little connection to SOL’s own price direction. Those two features give its recorded path a distinctly adaptable character.

Signature Strength

Uptrends and ranges were similarly productive, while daily returns had little correlation with SOL’s price.

A Role to Consider

Keep equal emphasis on rallies and consolidation. Those environments produced similar average historical results, and daily returns had little connection to SOL’s price—useful characteristics when comparing it with a more direction-focused approach.

Hackworth Trend · SOL

When broad crypto markets advanced, Trend SOL stepped up its pace. That environment supplied its strongest average historical results, with ranges providing another productive setting. Its energetic character makes the strategy easy to place in a portfolio: the central theme is active participation as market momentum builds.

Signature Strength

Positive average historical results across ordinary market directions, led by broad uptrends.

A Role to Consider

Emphasize the rally phase within the SOL range. Trend produced the trio’s strongest sampled average uptrend results, making broad-market growth its clearest selection criterion.

Hackworth OptimaShort · SOL

A cooling market can still hold opportunities. OptimaShort SOL’s strongest historical average results came during broad downtrends, closely followed by sideways conditions; advances contributed too. Its daily results were largely independent of SOL’s daily direction, adding another dimension to this countercurrent profile.

Signature Strength

Broad downtrends and ranges were its two most productive historical environments.

A Role to Consider

Give pullbacks and consolidation a deliberate role in the selection. OptimaShort led the SOL family’s average results in both settings, and its recorded progress also included positive uptrend contributions.

Archimedes · SOL

Several approaches share the work in Archimedes SOL. It can follow sustained price moves, trade returns toward typical prices, and respond to changes in volatility through both long and short positions. Its historical curve progresses in stages, giving this combination of approaches a visible expression in the strategy’s overall behavior.

Signature Strength

Trend-following, price-reversion and volatility approaches combined within one long/short portfolio.

A Role to Consider

Combine several trading styles in a single selection. This makes the strategy relevant when you want both sustained price moves and returns toward typical prices represented within the same portfolio approach.

PRICE

Live SOL price and market data.

SOL Spot Price
$120.80
Latest · Oct 06, 2026
$0.02K$0.10K$0.18K$0.26KOct 2023Jul 2024Apr 2025Jan 2026Oct 2026
SOL Funding Rate & Open Interest on Hyperliquid
SOL Funding rate+0.0013%
SOL Open interest685.94M
SOL 30-day volatility59.4%
SOL 24h volume191.78M
SOL 24h liquidationUnavailable
Correlation // 90D
BTC
0.83
ETH
0.81
DOGE
0.77
SPX
0.35
XAU
0.12
1 month+16.4%
Year to date-4.8%
1 year-45.1%
All-time high$262.20
12-month low$62.16
THE ASSET

About SOL.

Solana is a high-throughput layer-1 optimized for low fees and fast finality, positioned as the venue of choice for on-chain trading, consumer apps, and memecoin speculation. Its price carries a higher beta than BTC or ETH and reacts sharply to shifts in retail on-chain activity.

For a systematic trader SOL's liquidity is thinner and its volatility regime shifts faster than the majors, so models size positions more conservatively and lean harder on funding and open-interest signals to catch crowded-trade unwinds before they cascade.

WHAT MOVES THE PRICE
01

On-chain trading and memecoin cycles

Retail speculative activity is the single largest swing factor.

02

Validator and network reliability

Outage history still gets priced in during stress periods.

03

Perp funding and leverage

Thinner books mean crowded positioning moves price faster than in BTC/ETH.

04

Ecosystem token unlocks

Scheduled unlocks across the SOL ecosystem periodically add sell pressure.

VOLATILITY

SOL volatility and risk.

SOL at 59.4% annualised volatility is 1.6× BTC's volatility and still 3.2 times the S&P 500.

30D Realised Volatility
0%25%50%75%100%OCT 2025JAN 2026APR 2026JUL 2026OCT 2026
CURRENT
59.4%
12M HIGH
106.8%
12M LOW
29.7%
VS BTC
1.6×
Worst Drawdown // Strategy vs Holding
Hackworth OptimaShort
23.9%
Hackworth Prime
25.7%
Hackworth Trend
33.9%
Archimedes
11.4%
Holding SOL
76.3%
FAQ

SOL trading strategy FAQ.

What is the best SOL trading strategy?

By 30-day ROI, Hackworth OptimaShort is currently on top: 5.6%, with a 2.48 Sharpe ratio and a 4.2% worst drawdown.

Do I have to predict where SOL 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 Solana?

Holding took a 72.9% peak-to-trough loss over this period. The strategies hold SOL 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 SOL?

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 SOL trading strategies work?

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

What do SOL 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 SOL perpetual.