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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metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.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
85 trades total — 59 train / 26 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) | +0.082 | 0.4531 | n.s. | +0.87R vs -0.15R | -0.41R vs -0.26R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price) | +0.031 | 0.7748 | n.s. | +0.87R vs -0.15R | -0.47R vs -0.14R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | -0.054 | 0.6210 | n.s. | +0.37R vs +0.33R | -0.66R vs +0.06R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | -0.034 | 0.7558 | n.s. | +0.78R vs +0.06R | -0.00R vs -0.84R | held up |
| Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars) | +0.044 | 0.6875 | n.s. | +0.95R vs -0.52R | -0.46R vs -0.16R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | +0.073 | 0.5063 | n.s. | +0.39R vs +0.32R | -0.29R vs -0.52R | held up |


Strategy B
58 trades total — 40 train / 18 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) | +0.146 | 0.2751 | n.s. | +1.54R vs -0.10R | -0.94R vs +0.72R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price) | +0.093 | 0.4862 | n.s. | +1.54R vs -0.10R | -0.94R vs +0.72R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | -0.023 | 0.8639 | n.s. | +1.10R vs +0.34R | +0.43R vs -0.93R | held up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | -0.061 | 0.6482 | n.s. | +1.18R vs -0.66R | -0.82R vs -0.21R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars) | +0.120 | 0.3688 | n.s. | +1.88R vs -0.44R | -0.53R vs -0.39R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | +0.085 | 0.5244 | n.s. | +1.44R vs +0.00R | -0.58R vs -0.28R | 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) | -0.156 | 0.2560 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | -0.101 | 0.4635 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | +0.087 | 0.5272 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.063 | 0.6462 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | +0.046 | 0.7400 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | -0.108 | 0.4346 | n.s. |


Strategy B
| Metric | Spearman ρ | p-value | Significant? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std) | -0.095 | 0.4905 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | -0.066 | 0.6336 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | +0.105 | 0.4471 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | +0.165 | 0.2293 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.214 | 0.1172 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | -0.050 | 0.7195 | n.s. |

