We explore the profitability of day trading Bitcoin futures following diverse consecutive 3 bullish (bearish) one-minute candlesticks and then adopt stop-loss or take-profit only as exits. We reveal that different from our cognition, adopting take-profit strategies would have a notable average positive profit per trade (APPT), which is robust by employing the upward trend out-of-sample data different from the downward trend in-sample data. We infer that such impressive findings might result from temporary rising (falling) prices likely manipulated for appealing to investors pursuing long (short) positions. As a result, investors may realize profit instead of suffering loss frequently by adopting take-profit exits since mean reversion might often occur after such manipulation. Moreover, we argue that stop-loss might be redundant for day trading such futures because stop-loss seems enclosed in the mechanism of day trading.
