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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metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.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
87 trades total — 60 train / 27 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) | +0.073 | 0.5021 | n.s. | +0.25R vs +0.04R | -0.20R vs +0.26R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price) | +0.119 | 0.2737 | n.s. | +0.25R vs +0.04R | +0.34R vs -0.40R | held up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | -0.024 | 0.8251 | n.s. | +0.35R vs -0.06R | -0.01R vs -0.03R | held up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | -0.021 | 0.8485 | n.s. | +0.34R vs -0.24R | -0.48R vs +0.56R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars) | -0.142 | 0.1906 | n.s. | +0.80R vs -0.29R | -0.04R vs +0.00R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | +0.092 | 0.3988 | n.s. | +0.52R vs -0.23R | +0.06R vs -0.33R | held up |


Strategy B
47 trades total — 32 train / 15 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) | +0.011 | 0.9436 | n.s. | +1.62R vs +0.28R | -0.38R vs +0.80R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price) | -0.012 | 0.9346 | n.s. | +2.27R vs -0.37R | -0.46R vs +1.05R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER) | +0.085 | 0.5704 | n.s. | +1.68R vs +0.22R | -1.00R vs +5.23R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars) | -0.004 | 0.9811 | n.s. | +0.99R vs +0.81R | +0.56R vs -1.00R | held up |
| Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars) | -0.240 | 0.1043 | n.s. | +1.36R vs +0.83R | +0.08R vs +0.31R | did not hold up |
| Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars) | +0.289 | 0.0486 | p < 0.05 | +0.97R vs +0.93R | +0.44R vs -0.14R | held 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) | +0.251 | 0.0650 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | +0.230 | 0.0905 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | +0.059 | 0.6666 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.164 | 0.2326 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.007 | 0.9587 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | +0.044 | 0.7502 | n.s. |


Strategy B
| Metric | Spearman ρ | p-value | Significant? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std) | -0.073 | 0.5946 | n.s. |
| Avg Daily ATR (% of price) | -0.103 | 0.4559 | n.s. |
| Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1) | -0.142 | 0.3024 | n.s. |
| 4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | +0.153 | 0.2651 | n.s. |
| 1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count) | -0.104 | 0.4480 | n.s. |
| 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14) | -0.110 | 0.4231 | n.s. |

