How algorithmic trading (volatility harvesting) survived Bitcoin's 'Black October' crash

23 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Kosta Ouzas describing volatility harvesting and how a structured, well-engineered trading tool with strong design and risk management—specifically Minotaur—performed during the October 'Black Friday' Bitcoin crash. Emphasizes the need for design discipline and large amounts of risk management, and references collaboration with Giovanni Santa Stasi and the Power Law.

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Volatility harvesting. You want to do that with a tool and you want a tool that is extremely structured and well engineered. So you need an element of design and you need extreme amounts of risk management. And that is how we incorporate what we do with Giovanni Santa Stasi and the Power Law. We've done lots of videos about that. So, yeah, this is how Minotaur performed during the October Black Friday bitcoin crash.