how the engine works

Method

tradein has no opinion of its own. It measures two independent things — what profitable leaders are risking real money on, and what the tape says across three timeframes — and only calls a trade strong when both agree.

01

Scan profitable leaders

tradein pulls the MEXC copy-trading leaderboard for your chosen ranking window (7D / 30D / 90D), keeps only traders in profit, and reads every position they currently hold.

02

Group into crowd conviction

Positions are grouped per coin and direction. Dominance (how lopsided the crowd is) is scaled by sample size, so 9 of 10 leaders long counts far more than 1 of 1.

03

Run the predictor panel

For each coin, candles on 15m, 1h and 4h feed a panel of predictors: EMA trend (12/26/50), MACD, RSI, momentum, Bollinger band position and volume pressure. Each timeframe returns a signed conviction score.

04

Blend into strength points

Crowd score (55%) and predictor score (45%) are blended. Agreement between the two multiplies the result by 1.3; conflict cuts it by 0.35. The output is 0-100 strength: Very strong (80+), Strong (60+), Moderate (40+), Weak (20+), Mixed.

05

Validate continuously

The backtest bot replays the exact same predictor panel over roughly 500 historical bars per timeframe and reports win rate, average return and expectancy per conviction bucket — so you can see which strength levels actually paid.

Reading a signal

  • Strength 80+ — leaders and all three timeframes lean the same way. Rare, and the highest-expectancy bucket in backtests.
  • Strength 40-79 — a real edge, usually with one timeframe disagreeing. Size down.
  • Below 40 — noise. The crowd is split, the predictors are split, or both.
  • Freshness matters — a leader may close a position before you copy it. Default view shows trades opened in the last 6 hours.
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