jgrusewski 4336a71e26 feat(surfer): diversifier hunt — no robust partner (TS-trend real but stale) ...

Directional TS-trend (fixed earlier demeaning bug) is a real edge (bootstrap frac>0=1.00)
with low corr to momentum (+0.12) and lifts full-sample Sharpe +0.67->+0.71 -- but per-year/
OOS expose it as STALE (value all in 2021 +2.65; recent 2024 -0.16/2026 -0.89), so it DRAGS
the book OOS to +0.24 vs momentum's strong recent. 2022 crisis-alpha hypothesis failed
(choppy bear whipsawed trend). Within-crypto diversifiers exhausted (carry/lowvol/reversal/
size/TS-trend all fail) -> momentum is a robust single-sleeve edge; real diversifier needs a
different market/data. Discipline: full-Sharpe said add, OOS said stale.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-06 16:24:55 +02:00

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