An investment platform based in San Francisco- Set Labs– has launched an Ethereum-based monetary trading tool that seizes cryptocurrency’s volatile attributes for the investor’s benefit. The trading tool dubbed “Trend Trading ETH 20 Day Simple Moving Average Crossover Set” employs a moving average that has reportedly been backtested for about two years to arrest the momentum of price swings and limit losses in the market.
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The ERC20 token is used by the tool to characterize the user’s resources as either Ether or as the stable USDC. The crossover Set uses two MakerDAO’s ETH/USD price oracles to monitor the daily price and moving average of Ether and is programmed to make trades anytime the current price of ETH crosses the 20 Day Simple Moving Average indicator. If the tool is trading in ETH and the price goes below the moving average, it rebalances ETH into USDC. Similarly, if the tool is trading in ETH and the price moves above the moving average, it rebalances USDC into ETH.
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According to Set Labs CEO- Felix Feng-The tool essentially provides momentum investing or swing trading. He highlighted the markets in which momentum trading is effective as markets that do not have valuation models, have large amounts of volatility, and have frequent mispricing. Feng expressed that Momentum investing is not characteristically used in US stocks, bonds, or options – as they have clear valuation models, but stressed that however, for commodities and assets like crypto – momentum trading can be employed as an effective tactic that gives protection from losses in downtrends and capture subside on the uptrends.
As against physically studying trend lines and implementing trades on a centralized exchange or allotting these choices to a finance manager of a hedge fund, Set uses technical indicators embedded in smart contracts to eliminate human decisions from quantitative trades. Additionally, set employs a 6 to 12-hour confirmation period which prevents unnecessary trades. Furthermore, the protocol is programmed with at least a rebalance interval of four days. The primary price data is obtained from MakerDAO’s price oracles, after which the moving average is calculated by recording daily prices in a DailyPriceFeed smart contract and calculating the average of the past 20 days of price data.
Difference Among Competitors
Feng revealed that in that wise, the Set is comparable with trading bots on exchanges, although they use the strategy by acquiring an ERC20 token instead of users setting up trading bot infrastructure. Also, Set is different from decentralized finance competitors Melonport and BeToken owing to its automated procedure. Although they are similar, Melonport and BeToken operate more as decentralized hedge funds. In Feng’s opinion, since Sets can be constructed to rebalance on any on-chain indicator, the firm can also build trading strategies built on essential indicators and ultimately combine multiple indicators to build complex algorithmic strategies. He cited exponential moving averages, relative strength indexes, and moving average convergence divergence as advantages of the new tool. Although Set Labs is not yet profitable, even though it was founded in 2017, the firm has accomplished a series seed fundraising of $2 million.
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