A systematic, emotion‑free equity strategy that unites three of nature's oldest truths: random selection beats human judgment, the lunar cycle governs behavior on Earth, and prime numbers appear wherever deep order hides. Twenty years of data. Two parameters. One result.
$100,000 invested at inception, net of trading costs ($1 per trade + 5 bps slippage), against the same S&P 500 universe held passively. We show every day of it — most funds won't.
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Academic finance has known since Malkiel (1973) that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock pages performs as well as professional fund managers — usually better, after fees. Our selection engine is the monkey, perfected: pure randomness, zero ego, zero fear, zero CNBC. It cannot panic‑sell, because it cannot panic.
The moon moves oceans. Emergency rooms staff up for the full moon; sleep studies show we rest differently under it. Is it so hard to believe that a market made of humans breathes with the same tide? We rebalance exactly at full moon — and the data (below) confirms the theory with remarkable precision.
Cicadas emerge on prime‑numbered cycles to evade predators. Cryptography rests on primes. They surface wherever deep structure hides — including, our research finds, in the calendar of full moons. We trade only when the full moon falls on a prime‑numbered day. Why does it work? Nobody fully understands primes. That's the point.
Skeptics ask: why rebalance at the full moon and not, say, three days after? We swept the entire lunar cycle in 8‑hour increments — 91 separate 20‑year backtests. The optimum sits precisely where theory predicts it: day zero. If this were random noise, would the peak land exactly on the full moon?
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Quantitative funds tune hundreds of parameters until the backtest gleams — then wonder why live returns don't. The MOONX Strategy has exactly two calibration constants (7173Why 7173 was inevitableThe concatenation of the twin primes 71 • 73 — a syzygy in number space. Digit sum 18: the eighteenth Major Arcana is The Moon. Factors as 3² × 797, a palindromic prime — symmetric about its center, as the lunar cycle is symmetric about fullness. And 7173 days ≈ 19.6 years, a whisper from the 19‑year Metonic cycle, after which every full moon returns to its calendar date. Discovered, not chosen. and 6980Why 6980 was inevitableDigits 6, 9, 8, 0 — not a single prime among them: the composite counterweight to 7173’s prime‑laden digits. Yet its digit sum is 23, and 797 (the soul of 7173) also sums to 23 — the same signature hidden in both constants. Their difference, 193, is prime, with digit sum 13: the full moons of a blue‑moon year. Their sum, 14153, is prime. Two monkeys, indivisible. — hover over them to see why they were inevitable). Two knobs. What could we even overfit?
| Period | MOONX CAGR | Note |
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| 2006–2011 | +39.1% | through the Global Financial Crisis |
| 2011–2016 | +16.9% | positive |
| 2016–2021 | +18.8% | positive (incl. 2020 crash) |
| 2021–2026 | +57.7% | accelerating |
Four out of four five‑year windows positive. While 2008 erased half of most portfolios, the lunar calendar kept compounding at 39% a year. The moon and our monkeys do not read the news.
We accept new capital only at full moons falling on prime-numbered days — roughly four windows per year.
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