Free, permanently

It buys the bear you are
too scared to buy

The Iron Turtle buys a fixed amount of BTC on a schedule — but only while a confirmed long-term downtrend is in force. It stops the moment that downtrend ends, and it never sells on its own.

Spot only

No leverage, no futures account, nothing that can be liquidated.

Bear-active

The only strategy we make that does anything while the market falls.

Never sells

When the downtrend ends you get a hand-off alert. The stack is yours.

Get it right now, without us

The Iron Turtle is published open source. There is no invite, no waiting and nothing for us to approve.

  1. Open TradingView on a BTC/USDT Daily chart.
  2. Click Indicators and search AlphaVault Iron Turtle.
  3. Add it, set your tranche size, and put an alert on the hand-off signal.

Want the setup guide as well? It covers sizing, what the drawdown feels like, and how to track your average cost. One email, no sequence.

Where the setup guide goes, and how you'll be told when the downtrend ends.

Free permanently. No card, no subscription, no upsell sequence.

Read this before you use it

  • You will be underwater for most of it. It buys while price falls, so that is arithmetic, not malfunction. In the 2018 bear it sat about 51% down at the bottom. Every bear will feel like that.
  • Size it so you can finish. A bear can run two years. Budget roughly your weekly tranche × 100. Running dry halfway through is the most common way this goes wrong.
  • Judge it at the end, not during. The only number that matters is your average cost when the downtrend breaks.
  • It is a discipline, not a signal service. There is nothing to react to. It buys on a schedule and waits.

Why give it away?

Because there is nothing in it to protect. The Iron Turtle has zero optimised parameters — every rule it follows is published on its strategy page, and none of them were tuned to make a backtest look good. It is a discipline, not a curve fit, so charging for it would be charging for something you could write yourself in an afternoon.

Our paid strategies are the timing ones — the systems that decide when to be in the market and when to sit in cash. Those took a year of walk-forward validation and a long list of rejected ideas. This one took discipline.

Full rules, backtest and weaknesses

Backtested Jan 2018 – Jul 2026 (full history, rules fixed a priori) on BTC/USDT. Backtested results are hypothetical and do not predict future performance. This is educational material about a mechanical strategy, not financial advice.