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Is Polygon (POL) worth buying right now?

We'd wait.
Structure score 1/20 Poor tier

Polygon scores 1/20 today — Poor tier — and Bitcoin's regime is risk-off, where buying weakness has been a losing proposition and even buying strength had no validated edge. The honest call is to stand down.

Last close $0.0750
7-day +5.2%
30-day -1.6%
RSI(14) 47
Mcap rank #76
Bitcoin regime: RISK-OFF — death cross on 2025-11-16, 265 days ago. In this regime we found no validated edge in buying anything — strength included. We tested momentum rotation, oversold mean-reversion and weekly reversal through nine years of data; nothing survived. When does it flip? →

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The last 90 days

trigger $0.0780$0.1050$0.0675
close20-day avg50-day avgbreakout trigger

Today's read, in plain English

What's working: MACD momentum is on the positive side. What's missing: price is below its 20/50-day average stack; the 50-day average is still flat or falling; the weekly trend gate is shut — the bigger timeframe hasn't turned. Momentum context: RSI(14) is at 47 with positive MACD. The breakout trigger sits at $0.0780, about 4.1% above the last close.

The 10-component rubric

What's working (1)

  • ✓MACD momentum is on the positive side+1

What's missing (9)

  • ✗price is below its 20/50-day average stack+3 missed
  • ✗the 50-day average is still flat or falling+3 missed
  • ✗the weekly trend gate is shut — the bigger timeframe hasn't turned+3 missed
  • ✗the latest pullback undercut the prior low+2 missed
  • ✗RSI is outside the healthy 50–72 trend band+2 missed
  • ✗it is lagging Bitcoin over the last 90 days+2 missed
  • ✗down-days still carry the heavier volume+2 missed
  • ✗it hasn't printed a higher swing high yet+1 missed
  • ✗price is still far from its breakout trigger+1 missed

Each component is weighted by how much it historically improved forward returns; the weights sum to 20. The full methodology — including what we tested and rejected — is public on the daily read.

What would change our answer

  • → Bitcoin's regime flipping back to risk-on (the 50-day average crossing back above the 200-day) — without it, no chart earns a buy from us
  • → price sits above its rising 20- and 50-day averages
  • → the 50-day average itself is sloping upward
  • → the weekly trend gate is open (weekly close above its 10-week average)
  • → pullbacks are bottoming higher than the last one

Key levels & context

Last close$0.0750
Breakout trigger$0.0780 (4.1% away)
50-day average$0.0773 (price -2.9% vs it)
Volatility (ATR14)3.3% / day
RSI(14) / MACD47 / positive
LiquidityTHIN (mcap rank #76)

Can you time Polygon with moving averages?

One rule, fully visible: hold POL while its 8-day average is above its 21-day average, stand in cash when it isn't. Of the 295 fast/slow pairs we sweep daily across 1.8 years of history, 8/21 is this coin's best — in hindsight. Every triangle below is a real cross: exactly when the rule bought and when it stepped aside.

2024-11-10 · go long · $0.40692024-12-15 · go to cash · $0.61682025-01-07 · go long · $0.46972025-01-11 · go to cash · $0.45962025-03-27 · go long · $0.23102025-04-02 · go to cash · $0.18592025-04-21 · go long · $0.19912025-05-20 · go to cash · $0.23182025-07-06 · go long · $0.18372025-07-30 · go to cash · $0.21662025-08-10 · go long · $0.24092025-09-17 · go to cash · $0.26212025-10-07 · go long · $0.23712025-10-11 · go to cash · $0.18542025-10-30 · go long · $0.18482025-10-31 · go to cash · $0.18432026-01-04 · go long · $0.12172026-01-22 · go to cash · $0.13272026-02-18 · go long · $0.10792026-03-05 · go to cash · $0.10122026-04-21 · go long · $0.09352026-05-17 · go to cash · $0.09082026-06-24 · go long · $0.07352026-06-27 · go to cash · $0.07092026-07-09 · go long · $0.07662026-07-25 · go to cash · $0.0768Oct 2024May 2025Dec 2025Aug 2026$0.7132$0.0685
closeSMA 8 (fast)SMA 21 (slow)rule says hold▲ go long▼ go to cash
Last two years shown (26 of 27 crosses in the full 1.8-year history). Hover any triangle for the exact date and price.
×1.4
the rule · 18%/yr
×0.2
buy & hold · -59%/yr
-35%
worst drawdown vs -90% buy & hold
14 · 50%
trades · win rate
×1.3
after 0.2%/side fees
IN CASH
since 2026-07-25
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55/200: -16%/yrSMA 60/75: -45%/yrSMA 60/100: -37%/yrSMA 60/120: -34%/yrSMA 60/150: -17%/yrSMA 60/200: -25%/yrSMA 75/100: -30%/yrSMA 75/120: -36%/yrSMA 75/150: -29%/yrSMA 75/200: -32%/yrSMA 100/120: -53%/yrSMA 100/150: -37%/yrSMA 100/200: -41%/yrSMA 150/200: -32%/yr5152540601502002818304475150slow average (days) →
Rows = fast average, columns = slow. Greenest cell +18%/yr, reddest -60%/yr — scale is relative to this coin only. The white square is the pair charted on the left. Hover any cell for its numbers.

The map behind the pair

Each square is one fast/slow combination, coloured by what it returned per year holding POL only while its fast average was above its slow one. The chart on the left is the white square, traded for real — every whipsaw included. Best-in-hindsight always flatters — treat it as a ceiling, not a promise.

Honest math: 14 round trips at 0.2% fees per side turns ×1.4 into ×1.3 — still ahead of buy & hold's ×0.2. Right now the rule is in cash (since 2026-07-25). This is an educational backtest, not a strategy we sell — our product's regime gate works on the same principle, one deliberately slow pair, validated out of sample.

Every trade the rule made — 14 round trips, newest first

7 winners, 7 losers. Cross-close to cross-close, before fees. The open row is the current position marked to the last close.

EnteredExitedIn atOut atReturnDays
2026-07-092026-07-25$0.0766$0.0768+0.2%16
2026-06-242026-06-27$0.0735$0.0709-3.6%3
2026-04-212026-05-17$0.0935$0.0908-2.9%26
2026-02-182026-03-05$0.1079$0.1012-6.2%15
2026-01-042026-01-22$0.1217$0.1327+9.0%18
2025-10-302025-10-31$0.1848$0.1843-0.3%1
2025-10-072025-10-11$0.2371$0.1854-21.8%4
2025-08-102025-09-17$0.2409$0.2621+8.8%38
2025-07-062025-07-30$0.1837$0.2166+17.9%24
2025-04-212025-05-20$0.1991$0.2318+16.4%29
2025-03-272025-04-02$0.2310$0.1859-19.5%6
2025-01-072025-01-11$0.4697$0.4596-2.2%4
2024-11-102024-12-15$0.4069$0.6168+51.6%35
2024-10-032024-10-04$0.3757$0.3838+2.2%1

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