Crypto Correlation: The Silent Portfolio Killer and How AI Agents Fix It
Most automated traders focus on a single metric: the "win rate" of a specific signal. However, in the crypto market, a high win rate means nothing if your entire portfolio is secretly tied to the same risk factor. The Problem: The Correlation Trap When the market enters a high-volatility regime, individual asset behavior breaks down. BTC, ETH, and high-beta altcoins begin to move in near-perfect lockstep. If you run five independent bots, you don't have five diversified strategies; you have one massive, oversized bet on market direction. Risk Overlap: Multiple "buy" signals firing simultaneously across correlated pairs. Liquidity Squeeze: Simultaneous stop-loss triggers that deepen drawdowns. False Diversification: Thinking you are safe because you trade different tickers. The Solution: Multi-Agent Coordination The next generation of trading isn't about better indicators—it’s about Swarm Intelligence . This is where systems like Yeagers (yeagers.tech) ex...