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title: An Empty Region of Technical Strategy Space: 18,630 Pre-Registered Variants Across Cryptocurrency and FX
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7594361/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-10-16
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 7594361
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7594361
featured: 2026-10-16
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# An Empty Region of Technical Strategy Space: 18,630 Pre-Registered Variants Across Cryptocurrency and FX

A blockchain-verified sweep of 18,630 cryptocurrency and FX trading variants found no strategies exceeding a Deflated Sharpe of 0.95, with median detectable Sharpe of 3.49 and collective underperformance versus random selection.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7594361
- Identifier: SSRN 7594361
- Released: 2026-10-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 135 (2026-10-16): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-10-16/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
- Authors: Mobin Moharami Gargari

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