Why this name? Buy and harvest daily — Cycle buying; when your set Target of +N% is hit it takes profit automatically, and the proceeds go to the Vault, sealed — "Hit the target, send it to the vault."
Trading strategy · Daily scaled buying (cycle) → each lot hits its target (+N%) and takes profit → proceeds are sealed in the vault → quarter cuts curb over-buying → on a crash the vault opens and re-invests. It earns on the way up and accumulates more when markets break down.
It is not a bet on calling direction. It buys a little at every close by rule and, takes profit mechanically on rises. Earnings are locked in the Cash vault, and when a great crash comes that ammunition is re-deployed at the bottom. Where emotion would creep in, airtight rulesfill the gap — an endlessly cycling trading system.
Past backtests do not guarantee future returns · total loss possible
CTV (Cycle-Target Vault) assumes the Nasdaq's long-run upward structure and cycles four actions endlessly. Not one big bet — small rules repeated daily.
Buy N% of equity at every close. Less on up days, more on down days.
When a lot reaches its target return, only that position is sold automatically.
When equity swells, part is set aside in the cash vault as crash ammunition.
On a deep fall from the peak, vault cash is re-deployed at the bottom.
Cash recovered by sales and re-investment funds the next buys — the cycle continues.
At every close it buys a set share of equity. But versus the prior close, up days get less, down days get more — accumulating on declines pulls the average price down.
The strategy buys at every single close. If the day closed up, it buys 1% of equity; if down, 3% of equity. Same price path, but heavier buying on down days drags the average price down .
Triangle size = buy size. Small on up days (default 1%), big on down days (default 3%). Yellow circles mark the comparison.
Every purchased lot carries its own take-profit target. Target = buy price × (1 + take-profit rate). Up-day and down-day lots can carry different rates — cheaper down-day lots can aim for a bigger bounce.
Every lot bought at a different price carries its own +10% target line(dotted, color-coded). In the recovery, the moment price touches a line only that position is sold— it never waits for the whole account to recover. Cheaper lots have lower targets, so they cash out first, early in the bounce .
Three buys (blue · lime · green) each carry a +10% line; touching it sells with the same-colored ▼. The cheapest lot takes profit first.
Whenever equity swells, a set share is peeled off as cash into the Cash vault. Untouched in normal times — when a crash comes it is drawn as ammunition to buy the bottom.
When total equity crashes hard from its all-time peak, half the stored vault is deployed into buying. Falls that much again? The remainder deploys again. Instead of panic selling, the rules buy the bottom .
When holdings grow too large to keep buying, it forcibly trims some to restore buying power. It caps concentration and lets the freed cash keep buying at cheaper prices.
It does not stop when price falls after the first entry. The deeper the fall, the bigger the slices — lowering the average — and in the recovery each lot is sold on its own as it touches +10% . Many small positions, managed separately.
Source: built into the page real QQQ 2020 daily data(COVID crash → recovery) with CTV rules applied. Not sample data.
Buy → add → take profit → re-invest. Four actions form one cycle, and the cash they free becomes the next cycle's ammunitionas the same rules turn again. The choppier the market, the more often the cycle spins.
Source: built into the page Real QQQ 1999–2000 daily data. The same rules (buy → add → take profit → re-invest) repeating as cycles.
It never goes all-in. In rallies, take-profit cash is stored in the vaultas reserve ammunition, and when the crash comes the vault is broken open to buy the bottom. Because some cash always remains, there is ammunition for the next opportunity.
In rallies take-profit cash accrues to the vault(green grows). In crashes the vault is spent buying the bottom(blue jumps). Never all at once — the next opportunity is preserved.
Adjust the values below just a default example, not a fixed answer. directly in the backtest engine and verify them instantly on historical data until you trust your own settings.
QQQ / NDX-100 futures (1–4×) or spot TQQQ. Higher multiples raise returns, losses and liquidation risk together.
Daily buy % of equity, set separately for up and down days.
How far each lot must rise before it sells automatically.
Share set aside as equity swells. 0% turns the safety off.
How much equity must grow before each storage.
How far below the peak before the vault opens.
The system works on the premise that recovery comes . If the bottom runs deeper and longer than expected, the average (yellow dotted) stays above price despite the adds, the underwater stretch drags on, and the cash to re-invest can dry up first.
It is designed to turn volatility into profit in an up-trending market. But in stretches where that premise collapses, it suffers just as deeply.
At 3×, a −33% move in the underlying liquidates a position. In long crashes like the dot-com bust or 2008, chained liquidations can nearly wipe the account.
The cash vault is not infinite. If the bottom runs deeper and longer than expected, the decline can continue after the re-investment cash is gone.
High returns mean little if the drawdowns along the way are too deep to endure — people quit. Always check the crisis-year drawdowns yourself.
Every figure is only a backtest on historical data. Past performance does not guarantee future returns; investment decisions are entirely your own responsibility.
Not a strategy that calls prices: take profit on rises, buy by rule on falls — a repeating response system. Rules fill the space where emotion would enter.
it buys by rule. It buys at every close, adding more the deeper it falls, pulling down the average.
it takes profit lot by lot. The instant a lot touches its +10% line, that lot alone is sold.
the quarter cut makes cash. The priciest lots are trimmed first to restore buying power.
the same rules repeat. Cash recovered by profits and re-investment funds the next buys, and the cycle goes on.
Source: built into the page Real QQQ 2000 dot-com crash daily data. (The 2022 stretch is not in the built-in data, so an equivalent real QQQ decline stands in.)
Built into this page: real QQQ 2020 daily data aggregated to monthly in code, with CTV rules applied. Within the trend it accumulates small in normal months, buys bigger through corrections like the 2020 crash, harvests through the recovery Per-lot take profit, and when the account fills, Quarter cutrecovers cash.
Source: built into the page Real QQQ 2020 daily → monthly aggregation. ▲ buys · ▼ profits · ◆ quarter cuts repeating by rule across the long axis.
From daily scaled buying to crash re-investment — every CTV rule and setting is yours to adjust and backtest instantly on historical data.