SD1H4H — Euro / US Dollar (EUR/USD) Multi-TF Structure Backtest Variant Model (LuxAlgo)

Dukascopy 1-minute BID data, Jan 2022 → present · Euro / US Dollar (EUR/USD) (EURUSD)
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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metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.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

85 trades total — 59 train / 26 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)+0.0820.4531n.s.+0.87R vs -0.15R-0.41R vs -0.26Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price)+0.0310.7748n.s.+0.87R vs -0.15R-0.47R vs -0.14Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)-0.0540.6210n.s.+0.37R vs +0.33R-0.66R vs +0.06Rdid not hold up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)-0.0340.7558n.s.+0.78R vs +0.06R-0.00R vs -0.84Rheld up
Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars)+0.0440.6875n.s.+0.95R vs -0.52R-0.46R vs -0.16Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)+0.0730.5063n.s.+0.39R vs +0.32R-0.29R vs -0.52Rheld up
Trade-level regime scatter gridTrain vs test median-split comparison

Strategy B

58 trades total — 40 train / 18 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)+0.1460.2751n.s.+1.54R vs -0.10R-0.94R vs +0.72Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price)+0.0930.4862n.s.+1.54R vs -0.10R-0.94R vs +0.72Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)-0.0230.8639n.s.+1.10R vs +0.34R+0.43R vs -0.93Rheld up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)-0.0610.6482n.s.+1.18R vs -0.66R-0.82R vs -0.21Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars)+0.1200.3688n.s.+1.88R vs -0.44R-0.53R vs -0.39Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)+0.0850.5244n.s.+1.44R vs +0.00R-0.58R vs -0.28Rdid 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)-0.1560.2560n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)-0.1010.4635n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)+0.0870.5272n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.0630.6462n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)+0.0460.7400n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)-0.1080.4346n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison

Strategy B

MetricSpearman ρp-valueSignificant?
Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std)-0.0950.4905n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)-0.0660.6336n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)+0.1050.4471n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)+0.1650.2293n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.2140.1172n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)-0.0500.7195n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison