An automated hourly Bitcoin strategy is being handed out free, aimed at traders who lose money in bull markets by panic-buying tops and selling dips.

• The rules are simple: buy only when short-term momentum first turns hot and the 4-hour and daily trend also point up, then close the trade 24 hours later — no stop, no target.
• The daily trend filter is the key piece; it kept the system nearly flat through the 2022 bear market and turned 2025 from a loser into a winner by simply not trading in choppy periods.
• Backtested to 2015, it wins slightly more than half its trades and is up sharply since 2020, with a worst-case drop of 22% versus the 77% drop of just holding Bitcoin.
• Buying and holding still beat it by a wide margin since 2020, so the pitch is smoother returns and no emotional decisions, not bigger gains.
• The market read behind it: Bitcoin likely put in major cycle lows during the July and early August selloff and is working into a new bull market, with the trend switch flipping back on this week.

Outlook: If the bull market holds, the strategy should start trading actively again after a quiet, slightly negative first half of the year.