There is information on HF about making continuous loops using the bury method (Opie's tutorial is a great one). These look clean, and with an adequate bury length, they are super strong, theoretically retaining nearly 100% of rope rated strength (x2 for symmetric loop). I trust these with my weight.
That being said, to resist creep under light or cyclic loads, or just for peace of mind (ie the same reason a locking brummel splice is often used instead of a bury splice), I like to lock the loop before the bury. I have yet to see a method of making a truly locking continuous loop either on HF or anywhere on the internet (please point it out if I have missed it), so here it is my method. The only catch is that it turns out as a figure 8, which makes it slightly less clean looking as the bury only loops, but works in the same applications.
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