Backtesting Arena

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backtesting-arena": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tradingstrategies.work/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

49 tools

• arena_get_pulse

  How hot is the Bitcoin market today? Daily 0-100 heat score for the Bitcoin market, aggregated from 8 components (BTC-Cycle, F&G, Altcoin-Season, Bullmarket-Ampel, Funding-Rate, Hash-Ribbons, Mayer-Multiple, MVRV-Z). Returns score, band label, color, 7d/30d delta, verdict…

• arena_get_cycle

  Crypto cycle position — where are we in the cycle? Default BTC: point-in-time 9-indicator aggregation (Pi-Cycle Top & Bottom, Mayer Multiple, weekly RSI, 200-week-MA distance, halving position, Fear & Greed, BTC-dominance trend, mining-difficulty trend — each indicator’s 0-100…

• arena_get_spot_price

  Current BTC, ETH and SOL spot price — what is Bitcoin (or ETH/SOL) worth right now? Live USDT-quoted last price plus 24h change %, high and low from Binance. Use this to anchor the connector’s own analytics (cycle, historical-analog, gem scores) with the current market price…

• arena_get_stablecoin_supply

  Aggregate stablecoin supply (crypto-liquidity proxy) — is the liquidity impulse turning or accelerating? macro_regime only gives the 30d delta; this exposes the trend: current supply, 30d/90d change (USD + %) plus a daily time series (`days`, default 365; `resolution` states…

• arena_get_etf_flows

  Spot-ETF net flows (USD millions) — is the flow impulse turning or accelerating? The summary only gives point-in-time deltas; this exposes the trend: 30d/90d net flow, a direction label (inflows/outflows/flat) and a daily series (every US trading day: cumulative inflow + that…

• arena_get_altcoin_season

  Is it altcoin season? Daily Altcoin-Season indicator (v7 Native-Filter methodology). Returns BTC-, alt- and stablecoin dominance, the 4 Layer-1 signals (alt_dominance, total_market_cap, btc_dominance, stable_dominance — weekly smoothed-Heikin-Ashi directions; weights in…

• arena_get_fear_greed

  How fearful or greedy is the market right now? Crypto Fear & Greed Index (alternative.me). Returns the current `value` (0-100) and `classification` (extreme fear / fear / neutral / greed / extreme greed) as their own fields, plus `history` — the last 90 daily readings by…

• arena_get_bullmarket_ampel

  Is this still a bull market? Bitcoin Bullmarket-Ampel current state (0-5 active stages). Returns active_count, a stages[] breakdown (each stage with key, label, active and `since` = first day of its current state; null when the state predates the 400-day lookup) and…

• arena_get_funding_rate

  Are longs or shorts paying right now? Latest BTC perpetual funding rate, averaged across up to 4 exchanges (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Deribit; 8h settlement cadence). Returns the day's averaged value plus each exchange's own value (no moving average or Z-score — for the history use…

• arena_get_macro_regime

  What is the macro backdrop doing? Daily Macro Regime snapshot from 18 components in 6 tiers (Liquidity 30%, Financial Conditions 20%, Risk Appetite 15%, Crypto Liquidity 10%, Business Cycle 15%, Inflation/Real Rates 10%). FRED-sourced. Returns composite_score (0-100)…

• arena_get_btc_market_structure

  Is the trend up or down, and how fresh is the flip? Daily Bitcoin market structure from 1000-bar Phantomflow adaptation (BTCUSDT 1d). Returns current_trend (up/down/sideways), last trend change timestamp, counts of waves + fractals, last-5 fractals on each side (up = pivot…

• arena_get_key_levels

  Which price levels matter above and below spot? Reproducible Bitcoin structural levels on BOTH sides of spot, in TWO distinct provenance classes. (1) resistance/support: swing-pivot clusters — where past pivot highs+lows cluster into price zones (touch-count, band, last-touch…

• arena_get_iv_snapshot

  What is the options market pricing in? Latest Deribit volatility snapshot for BTC or ETH. Returns DVOL (30d vol index), constant-maturity ATM implied vol (30/60/90/180d via options chain), 30d realized vol, and `vol_risk_premium_30d`, which is the TRAILING spread: ATM implied…

• arena_list_onchain_series

  Which on-chain series are available? Lists all 69 available Bitcoin Research Kit (BRK) on-chain series across the groups pilot, sentiment, mining, supply, cointime, activity, liquidity (e.g. MVRV, NUPL, SOPR, Realized-Price, Mayer, Puell, STH/LTH SOPR, Hash-Ribbons). Returns id…

• arena_get_onchain_latest

  What does this on-chain metric read right now? Returns the most recent value of ONE on-chain series from the Bitcoin Research Kit as { series_id, metric_name, date, value }. Cheapest way to answer "what is X right now" (MVRV, SOPR, realized price, hash rate, …). Discover valid…

• arena_get_sth_cost_basis

  What did recent buyers pay on average — and how far is spot from that? Latest BTC short-term-holder cost basis (realized price of coins younger than ~155 days, BRK brk_sth_realized_price), derived STH-MVRV (spot ÷ STH cost basis), an in_loss flag, plus ±1σ/±2σ bands: basis ×…

• arena_get_onchain_history

  How has this on-chain metric moved over time? Returns the full TIME SERIES of one on-chain metric from the Bitcoin Research Kit — date/value pairs in ascending order, with history back to 2009 for most series. Use it for trend and percentile work; for the single current reading…

• arena_get_max_pain

  What happened at the last Deribit expiry? Max pain and how spot settled against it: max_pain_strike, spot_at_expiry, %-diff, put_call_ratio, notional. Plus up to 10 upcoming expiries, each with current live max-pain level, days_to_expiry, open_interest_contracts and…

• arena_get_max_pain_history

  Does max pain actually pull price to the strike? Settled Deribit BTC options expiries with the max-pain level we compute per expiry, for measuring the convergence question: does spot drift toward the max-pain level as expiry approaches? Each row: expiry_date, max_pain_strike…

• arena_status

  Am I connected, and what can this key do? Returns auth status (key kind: oauth connector or bearer API key, tier), server version, current UTC time, and the rate-limit state (hour/day used, remaining, reset) WITHOUT consuming extra quota beyond this call itself. Call this first…

• arena_list_strategies

  Which strategies can I backtest here? Lists all backtest strategies (key, label, plan, supported asset classes, primary indicators). Filterable by asset class and plan. Use this before calling arena_run_backtest to discover valid strategy names. Entries deprecated for an asset…

• arena_list_universes

  Which asset universes can I test against? Lists all crypto asset universes (BTC, top-10 crypto, top-50 crypto, etc.) — the underlying pair-sets used by custom-report and universe-backtest endpoints. [Free tier]

• arena_get_universe

  Which pairs are in this universe? Returns one pair universe in full: its id, label, selection rule and the complete list of pairs it currently contains. Use it to see what you are about to test BEFORE handing a universe_id to arena_run_universe_backtest, or to resolve a universe…

• arena_get_strategy_insights

  Which strategy and interval combinations actually performed? Aggregated backtest performance per (strategy × interval) cell. If `strategy` AND `interval` provided, returns detail with per-asset breakdown + param variants. Otherwise returns the matrix. Free tier is limited to the…

• arena_get_strategy_performance

  How did this exact strategy, asset and interval perform? Aggregated backtest performance for ONE specific (strategy, asset, interval) combination. Returns run_count, avg_cagr, avg_win_rate, avg_drawdown, effective_years, vs_buy_hold comparison (beats_buy_hold, cagr_delta) and an…

• arena_get_strategy_filter_effect

  What would each entry filter have changed for this strategy? Per-(strategy, asset, interval) filter-effect analysis. Returns baseline-stats (no filters) + each observed filter-variant's stats with cagr_delta / drawdown_delta / win_rate_delta vs the time-overlap-matched baseline…

• arena_get_strategy_performance_by_regime

  In which macro regime has this strategy worked? Historical backtest performance for ONE (strategy, asset, interval) combination SPLIT BY macro market regime (sweet_spot / late_cycle_warning / crisis / recovery — classified at each trade's entry date), PLUS the CURRENT live…

• arena_get_edge_reports

  Which entry filter carries a real edge? Platform-wide aggregated analysis: how each Pro+ entry filter (200 WMA, ATR low/high/expansion, Altcoin Season, Bullmarket confirm/strict) affects strategy CAGR — baseline vs. filtered, asset-equal-weighted (per-asset medians over…

• arena_list_backtests

  Which backtests have I run? Lists the backtest runs belonging to the authenticated user — newest first, with id, strategy, pair, interval, date range and headline metrics per run. Use it to find a run_id, then call arena_get_backtest for its detail or arena_get_backtest_trades…

• arena_get_backtest

  What exactly did that backtest do? Returns the full record of ONE backtest run by id: strategy, pair, interval, date range, parameters, filters and the aggregate metrics (CAGR, total return, win-rate, max drawdown, trade count, Buy & Hold comparison, net-of-fees figures). Only…

• validate_strategy

  Does this strategy survive an honest test? Backtest a trading strategy honestly — look-ahead-aware validation with Deflated-Sharpe-Ratio / multiple-testing correction (Bailey & López de Prado). Returns an EVIDENCE verdict (insufficient_evidence | anecdote | failed_oos |…

• arena_run_backtest

  How would this strategy have performed? Run ONE strategy on ONE pair over a date range and get the full result: CAGR, total return, max drawdown, win-rate, trade count, Buy & Hold comparison, net-of-fees figures, and a run_id for later retrieval. Synchronous, typically 3–10s…

• arena_compare_strategies

  Which of these strategies performed best on the same data? Run 2–5 strategies against the SAME pair, interval and date range and return per-strategy metrics plus a comparison summary (best by CAGR, best by win-rate, worst by drawdown). Use this when the user asks which of…

• arena_run_universe_backtest

  Does this strategy hold up across a whole universe? Runs it against every pair in the universe. Pair cap depends on your API tier: Pro 50, Power 250 — Power covers crypto-top-250 in ONE job, and a single job keeps the ranking on one pair set (merging results across different…

• arena_get_job_status

  Is my universe backtest finished? Polls an async job by job_id (created via arena_run_universe_backtest). Returns status (pending/running/completed/failed), progress_pct, pairs_completed, and once completed: the full result (summary + per-pair results). [Free tier]

• arena_run_grid_backtest

  Would a grid bot have made money here? Simulate a GRID BOT (buy-low / sell-high ladder inside a fixed price range) on historical candles. Returns final value, return %, CAGR, trade count, fees paid and a Buy & Hold comparison — plus `zerlegung` (spot runs): `decomposition`…

• arena_get_gem_scores

  Altcoin screener ranking — which altcoins look strong right now? Today's CoinGecko Top-200 minus stablecoins and tokenized fiat, scored by a composite of 3 factor groups: Mean-Reversion (A), Tokenomics (B), Market-Structure (C). Each score carries `plain` (one sentence: rank…

• arena_get_volatility_history

  How volatile has Bitcoin been? Daily Bitcoin volatility time series: realized volatility (30d & 90d, √365-annualized — calendar days, the same basis as DVOL — close-to-close) and ATR% (Wilder EMA-14, captures intraday range + gaps), on the same scale. Ranks come in two flavours…

• arena_list_knowledge

  What knowledge objects exist here? Discover what Knowledge Objects exist: lists all published types + their subjects (with min_tier, api_path, seo_slug, latest as_of). Use this BEFORE arena_get_knowledge to learn valid type/subject pairs instead of guessing. New types appear…

• arena_get_knowledge

  What does the platform know about this subject? Fetch a versioned, explainable Knowledge Object by type + subject (e.g. type='market_regime', subject='GLOBAL'). Returns the current published envelope: payload, explanation (factors + weights + confidence), provenance (inputs +…

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