Crash short calls
When a crash warning becomes a short signal, how each coin earns (or never earns) one, where to find it, and how to trade it carefully.
What a crash short is
A crash warning blocks longs, but on some coins it is also a trade. The question is whether, on this coin, opening a short when the crash risk reached a certain level would have paid in the past. The platform answers that from the coin's own history. When the answer is yes, a crash short signal is raised as soon as the live risk crosses that level.
How a coin qualifies
During the coin's analysis the platform replays its crash-risk history and simulates a short each time the risk crossed a level, with a stop at the level that would have voided the warning, a target below, a time limit and trading fees included. A coin only gets crash-short calls when this produced enough trades with a positive average result after fees. Many coins never qualify, which is the system working as intended: their warnings were not reliably followed by tradeable drops.
Where you see it
- On the Signals page, set the type filter to crash_short.
- As a signal popup and alert when one is raised.
- The headline states the live risk, the level it crossed and how shorting at that level did on this coin historically (win rate, number of past cases, average result).
The plan
| Element | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Entry range | Around the current price, with a chase limit just below. |
| Stop-loss | The Void above price of the crash warning: if price gets there, the warning that justified the short is cancelled too. |
| TP1 | The target that worked best at this risk level on this coin. |
| TP2 | A deeper target based on the larger past drops. |
How to use it
- Read the number of past cases. Many cases with a solid win rate is useful evidence; a handful is not much better than a guess.
- Enter inside the entry range. A crash short chased far lower has already given up most of its target.
- Do not widen the stop beyond the void level.
- Market-wide warnings can push many coins over their level at once. Spread risk rather than shorting every coin.
These are statistics from past data, not promises. Read the risk notice.