Why I built a crypto tool that never says "buy" or "sell"
Since 2020, I tried to beat the market.
I built trading bots. I tested momentum strategies, rotation systems, funding-rate arbitrage. I moved from crypto to forex and back — trend-following, carry, combinations of both. Six serious strategies, each one backtested properly: out-of-sample, across market cycles, with honest drawdown analysis.
And I killed every single one of them.
Not because I gave up. Because the data told the truth. A strategy that looks brilliant on one period falls apart on another. A smooth equity curve hides a crash that hasn't happened yet. "Low-risk, copyable, profitable" — that combination isn't lying around waiting to be found. If it were, everyone would have it.
That was a hard lesson, learned over years. But it was also a gift: I learned it on paper, not with real money — mine or anyone else's.
The pivot
Somewhere in those years, I realized I was asking the wrong question. I didn't actually want a magic bot. What I wanted was to stop feeling lied to.
Every crypto tool I used was shouting at me. "STRONG BUY." "This coin will 100x." "Score: 96/100." None of them told me why. None of them admitted what they didn't know. And when their calls were wrong — which they often were — they just moved on to the next loud prediction.
I was tired of it. So I built the opposite.
What Sightglass does
Sightglass reads a coin and tells you what is — never what to do.
- How it behaves versus Bitcoin: does it amplify Bitcoin's moves, or move on its own?
- Where it sits in its own multi-year range — closer to past peaks, or past lows?
- What it moves with — which coins it tracks most closely.
- How volatile it is, and its worst historical drawdown — and why that drawdown happened.
That's it. No buy. No sell. No score. Just the facts, laid out plainly.
Because here's what I believe: a good tool doesn't make your decision for you. It gives you an honest picture and trusts you to decide. Facts, not a call — the decision stays yours.
No hidden anything
Sightglass is free to use. The risk information — volatility, drawdowns, behaviour — will always be free, because I won't put a price on the part that protects you. There are no ads. There are no secret signals waiting behind a paywall.
I built the tool I wished existed when I was staring at those "STRONG BUY" screens. If that sounds like something you've wanted too, take a look.