# ManyLives Five-Year Best Sharpe Strategies

> ManyLives Five-Year Best Sharpe Strategies is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns a ranked list of the top-performing crypto and stock strategies by highest Sharpe ratio over a five-year window, sourced from verifiable on-chain backtests.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.manylives.me/paid/strategies/five-year-best-sharpe?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-five-year-best-sharpe-strategies-d29a8f0c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_X0j06AzySbZtgt6wg3V0Q

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability manylives-five-year-best-sharpe-strategies-d29a8f0c
```

Example prompt: Pull the ManyLives ranked list of strategies with the best five-year Sharpe ratio so I can compare risk-adjusted performance across their 2,000+ crypto and stock strategies.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need the definitive ranked list of strategies by five-year Sharpe ratio with on-chain verifiable provenance, rather than self-reported or unverified backtests. Prefer it over generic screeners when risk-adjusted long-term performance is the primary criterion and you need a ready-to-use ranked list rather than computing Sharpe yourself.

## Known failure modes

- 402 Payment Required if USDC payment is not included or insufficient
- Empty or truncated results if on-chain data is unavailable for certain strategies
- Stale computed data marked with 'computed*' source flag indicating it may not be real-time
- Malformed response if the strategy database is being updated

## How this service works

Pay-per-call tools for people building AI agents: live web search and page contents, point-in-time crypto market data and news for backtests (no lookahead), verifiable track records of 1,000 crypto strategies locked on the Base network, company profiles, quick AI and batch prices. Ask us to turn a public website into a JSON endpoint. Pay per call, no account, free trial.

## Output

A JSON object containing a ranked list of trading strategies sorted by highest five-year Sharpe ratio, including each strategy's ID, rank, 1-hour return percentage (on-chain verified), and 5-year return percentage (computed), along with the list name, level classification (e.g. 'advanced'), and the ranking criterion used.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "list": "Best Sharpe over five years",
  "level": "advanced",
  "results": [
   {
    "id": "CRY-1h-042",
    "rank": 1,
    "all_windows": {
     "1h": {
      "source": "on-chain",
      "return_pct": 0.4
     },
     "5y": {
      "source": "computed*",
      "return_pct": 120.5
     }
    }
   }
  ],
  "criteria": "highest Sharpe ratio over 5 years"
 }
}
```

## More

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