Overview
Coin Flip is a benchmark strategy built around coin-flip trade direction.
It keeps the structure of a real trading system while stripping the entry model down to its simplest possible form. This creates a clean baseline for measuring the impact of trade management, execution behavior, and risk handling independently from signal design.
Signal Logic
The strategy does not use indicators or market analysis to choose direction.
Each entry is assigned as either long or short by a coin-flip decision. With seed control enabled, the same sequence can be reproduced across runs for consistent comparison. Without it, each run produces a different sequence.
Coin Flip
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Use seed | Controls whether the strategy behaves the same way on every run or generates a different coin-flip path each time. True – the strategy uses the value from the Seed parameter. With the same seed, the sequence of long and short entries will always be the same, so repeated tests remain directly comparable. False – the Seed parameter is ignored. The strategy generates a new sequence on each run, so results may vary from test to test. |
| Seed | Defines which fixed coin-flip path the strategy will use when Use Seed is set to True. Changing the seed does not make the strategy less deterministic – it simply selects a different repeatable sequence. For example, Seed = 12345 will always produce one specific entry sequence, while Seed = 54321 will always produce another. |
Common Features
Each strategy has its own signal logic, but installation, setup, and trade management are identical across the product line. Once you know how to use one, you know how to use the rest.
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