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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metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.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.
| Metric | Spearman ρ (all trades) | p-value | Significant? | Train: filter vs. other | Test: filter vs. other | Held up? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std) | -0.119 | 0.2415 | n.s. | +0.63R vs +0.02R | +1.54R vs -0.98R | held up |
| Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price) | -0.105 | 0.3010 | n.s. | +0.71R vs -0.05R | +1.87R vs -0.99R | held up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | -0.077 | 0.4505 | n.s. | +1.29R vs -0.62R | -0.62R vs +4.36R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | -0.017 | 0.8701 | n.s. | +1.44R vs -0.17R | -0.58R vs +2.57R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars) | +0.039 | 0.7025 | n.s. | +0.42R vs +0.20R | -0.72R vs +3.40R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | -0.176 | 0.0810 | n.s. | +1.12R vs -0.46R | +1.77R vs -0.13R | held up |


Strategy B
73 trades total — 51 train / 22 test.
| Metric | Spearman ρ (all trades) | p-value | Significant? | Train: filter vs. other | Test: filter vs. other | Held up? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std) | -0.274 | 0.0189 | p < 0.05 | +0.46R vs -0.51R | +2.31R vs +7.56R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | +0.022 | 0.8552 | n.s. | +0.57R vs -0.61R | +3.46R vs +3.55R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | +0.009 | 0.9417 | n.s. | +0.49R vs -0.25R | +0.21R vs +4.23R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | -0.212 | 0.0718 | n.s. | +0.84R vs -0.87R | +3.04R vs +3.96R | did not hold up |


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
| Metric | Spearman ρ | p-value | Significant? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std) | +0.102 | 0.4580 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | +0.125 | 0.3637 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | +0.138 | 0.3147 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.065 | 0.6390 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.228 | 0.0941 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | +0.072 | 0.6030 | n.s. |


Strategy B
| Metric | Spearman ρ | p-value | Significant? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std) | -0.025 | 0.8591 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | +0.024 | 0.8647 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | -0.071 | 0.6089 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | +0.171 | 0.2108 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.030 | 0.8298 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | -0.138 | 0.3142 | n.s. |

