Research ·
Does the profit lock need to react in minutes? We replayed it on 5-minute candles.
In six years, positions reached +100% 14 times. Checking every 5 minutes instead of every 4 hours changed nothing: same 3 exits, same returns to 0.01%.
The bot's profit lock moves a stop up once a position has doubled. But the bot only looks every four hours. What if a coin doubles in the first thirty minutes and crashes before the bot looks again?
A 4-hour candle can't answer that: it tells you the high and the low, not which came first. So we fetched the real Binance 5-minute candles for every 4-hour window where a held position came near +100%, 23 windows in all, and replayed them five minutes at a time.
The result
| 2021 – Sep 2026 | Lock checked every 4 h (live) | Lock checked every 5 min |
|---|---|---|
| Return per year | 45.73% | 45.73% |
| Sharpe ratio | 1.668 | 1.668 |
| Worst drop | −18.51% | −18.51% |
| Times a position reached +100% | 14 | 14 |
| Exits at the locked level | 3 | 3 (the same three) |
Every year from 2021 to 2026 matches to within 0.01%.
Why no difference
Doubling is rare for these ten coins, and it happened over days or weeks, never in minutes. The 5-minute check did lock earlier, usually by a few hours and once by ten days (SOL, August 2021), but the price didn't turn sharply before the next 4-hour close in any of those cases.
The three trades that exited at the lock were all DOGE: +51% in January 2021, +20% in November 2022 and +54% in March 2024. They were identical in both versions.
So the lock stays on the 4-hour schedule. Checking every five minutes would add code and stop-order changes between cycles for no measured benefit. If the unlikely does happen, the regular 25% stop still protects the position.