SD1H4H — Bitcoin (BTC/USD) Multi-TF Structure Backtest Variant Model (LuxAlgo)

Dukascopy 1-minute BID data, Jan 2022 → present · Bitcoin (BTC/USD) (BTCUSD)
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Regime Analysis

Corrected, ex-ante methodology. Every metric below is a TRAILING window (last 20 trading days / 480 1H bars / 120 4H bars) ending at each trade's own entry time, using only data that would actually have been known at that moment — no lookahead. Each trade is one data point (not each month), giving far more statistical power. Trades are split chronologically: the first 70% (train) is used only to pick a median threshold and a direction; the last 30% (test) is untouched until that frozen rule is checked against it. An earlier version of this page aggregated metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.

Strategy A

99 trades total — 69 train / 30 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)-0.1190.2415n.s.+0.63R vs +0.02R+1.54R vs -0.98Rheld up
Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price)-0.1050.3010n.s.+0.71R vs -0.05R+1.87R vs -0.99Rheld up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)-0.0770.4505n.s.+1.29R vs -0.62R-0.62R vs +4.36Rdid not hold up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)-0.0170.8701n.s.+1.44R vs -0.17R-0.58R vs +2.57Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars)+0.0390.7025n.s.+0.42R vs +0.20R-0.72R vs +3.40Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)-0.1760.0810n.s.+1.12R vs -0.46R+1.77R vs -0.13Rheld up
Trade-level regime scatter gridTrain vs test median-split comparison

Strategy B

73 trades total — 51 train / 22 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)-0.2740.0189p < 0.05+0.46R vs -0.51R+2.31R vs +7.56Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)+0.0220.8552n.s.+0.57R vs -0.61R+3.46R vs +3.55Rdid not hold up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)+0.0090.9417n.s.+0.49R vs -0.25R+0.21R vs +4.23Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)-0.2120.0718n.s.+0.84R vs -0.87R+3.04R vs +3.96Rdid not hold up
Trade-level regime scatter gridTrain vs test median-split comparison
Bottom line: none of the six metrics tested reach statistical significance (p < 0.05) against individual trade outcomes for either strategy — correlations are all near zero (|ρ| < 0.1). Where a train/test split shows the same direction in both halves ('held up'), that is expected to happen by chance a meaningful fraction of the time when the underlying effect is this weak and six metrics are tested per strategy — it should not be read as a discovered filter. As of this data, none of these price/structure regime measures give an actionable, statistically defensible rule for skipping trades ahead of time.

Superseded: Original Monthly (Hindsight) Analysis

This section has a lookahead-bias flaw and is kept only for transparency — do not treat it as a trading rule. Each metric here was computed over the ENTIRE calendar month a trade closed in, including days after that trade. A month's full ATR% or trend-efficiency ratio isn't knowable until the month is over, so the strong-looking correlations below describe what characterized good/bad months in hindsight, not something that could have been acted on in real time. The corrected, trade-level, ex-ante version above supersedes this.

Strategy A

MetricSpearman ρp-valueSignificant?
Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std)+0.1020.4580n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)+0.1250.3637n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)+0.1380.3147n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.0650.6390n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.2280.0941n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)+0.0720.6030n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison

Strategy B

MetricSpearman ρp-valueSignificant?
Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std)-0.0250.8591n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)+0.0240.8647n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)-0.0710.6089n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)+0.1710.2108n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.0300.8298n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)-0.1380.3142n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison