Crypto Weekend Effect: does it work?

Crypto trades every day, and a common claim is that thin weekend volume produces a consistent directional drift worth trading on its own.

The rule we tested. Long only over the Saturday/Sunday session window, flat on weekdays, the plain crypto weekend-drift calendar rule, run across a basket of coins rather than BTC alone.

No. crypto pairs −56.9 pts/yr vs buy-and-hold (p=1.000, q=1.000). None cleared Tickfloor's Benjamini-Hochberg q<0.10 bar once weighed against every other rule tested alongside it.

This is one line in a wider check: Tickfloor's research desk has run 401 strategies against buy-and-hold, and after correcting for how many were tested (Benjamini-Hochberg, 444 tests), 0 survived. A single win-rate claim like this one is exactly the kind of result that check exists to catch before anyone trades on it.

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Does the crypto weekend effect work?

No. crypto pairs −56.9 pts/yr vs buy-and-hold (p=1.000, q=1.000). None cleared Tickfloor's Benjamini-Hochberg q<0.10 bar once weighed against every other rule tested alongside it.

What exact rule did Tickfloor test?

Long only over the Saturday/Sunday session window, flat on weekdays, the plain crypto weekend-drift calendar rule, run across a basket of coins rather than BTC alone.

Is this financial advice?

No. This measures a publicly claimed strategy rule, not a recommendation. General information only, not personal advice.

See the full numbers on the Calendar-event drift family page, or the full method and every result.

Other rules we've tested: Buy the Dip, The January Effect, Golden Cross / Death Cross.

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