ByteTrend 101
Daily and Weekly
The same five rules, run over two sets of windows — a fast one and a slow one.
Two timescales
| Daily | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|
| Long moving average | 200 days | 200 weeks |
| Short moving average | 30 days | 30 weeks |
| High/low lookback (rule 5) | 20 days | 20 weeks |
| Best suited to | Month-scale momentum and early turns | Multi-year trends and regime calls |
Both update every day
This is the most common misreading, so it’s worth stating plainly: “Daily” and “Weekly” describe the timescale of the moving averages, not how often the score refreshes. Both scores are recomputed every day.
The Weekly windows are measured in weeks but computed on daily closes — a 200-week average is a 1,000-trading-day average — which is why both scores can move on any day, not just at the end of a week.
Digital assets trade seven days a week, so their moving-average windows are scaled by 7/5 to match: the Daily averages use 280 and 42 calendar days in place of 200 and 30 trading days, and the Weekly ones are built the same way. The high/low lookbacks scale too, except the Daily one, which stays at 20 days on either calendar. This keeps the timescales comparable across asset classes. The ByteTrend score tables every window.
Four scores per asset
Two timescales times two price series gives four scores for every asset:
| Local | CAPR | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily | Daily Local | Daily CAPR |
| Weekly | Weekly Local | Weekly CAPR |
Comparing them is where the insight lives. A Weekly CAPR 0 with a Daily CAPR 5 suggests momentum is building in the short term while the long-term trend has yet to confirm it. The reverse — strong Weekly, weakening Daily — is often the first sign an established trend is tiring.
A rule of thumb
Respect the Weekly, act on the Daily. The Weekly score tells you what regime you are in; the Daily score is where change shows up first.