SD1H4H — Nasdaq 100 (US Tech 100) Multi-TF Structure Backtest Variant Model (LuxAlgo)

Dukascopy 1-minute BID data, Jan 2022 → present · Nasdaq 100 (US Tech 100) (USATECHIDXUSD)
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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metrics over whole calendar months, which leaks future-within-the-month information into the metric — see the superseded section at the bottom for why that mattered.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

87 trades total — 60 train / 27 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)+0.0730.5021n.s.+0.25R vs +0.04R-0.20R vs +0.26Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price)+0.1190.2737n.s.+0.25R vs +0.04R+0.34R vs -0.40Rheld up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)-0.0240.8251n.s.+0.35R vs -0.06R-0.01R vs -0.03Rheld up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)-0.0210.8485n.s.+0.34R vs -0.24R-0.48R vs +0.56Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars)-0.1420.1906n.s.+0.80R vs -0.29R-0.04R vs +0.00Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)+0.0920.3988n.s.+0.52R vs -0.23R+0.06R vs -0.33Rheld up
Trade-level regime scatter gridTrain vs test median-split comparison

Strategy B

47 trades total — 32 train / 15 test.

MetricSpearman ρ (all trades)p-valueSignificant?Train: filter vs. otherTest: filter vs. otherHeld up?
Trailing 20D Realized Volatility (log-return std)+0.0110.9436n.s.+1.62R vs +0.28R-0.38R vs +0.80Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Avg ATR (% of price)-0.0120.9346n.s.+2.27R vs -0.37R-0.46R vs +1.05Rdid not hold up
Trailing 20D Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER)+0.0850.5704n.s.+1.68R vs +0.22R-1.00R vs +5.23Rdid not hold up
Trailing 4H Structure Flips (last 120 bars)-0.0040.9811n.s.+0.99R vs +0.81R+0.56R vs -1.00Rheld up
Trailing 1H Structure Flips (last 480 bars)-0.2400.1043n.s.+1.36R vs +0.83R+0.08R vs +0.31Rdid not hold up
Trailing 1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14, last 480 bars)+0.2890.0486p < 0.05+0.97R vs +0.93R+0.44R vs -0.14Rheld 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)+0.2510.0650n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)+0.2300.0905n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)+0.0590.6666n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.1640.2326n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.0070.9587n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)+0.0440.7502n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison

Strategy B

MetricSpearman ρp-valueSignificant?
Daily Realized Volatility (log-return std)-0.0730.5946n.s.
Avg Daily ATR (% of price)-0.1030.4559n.s.
Trend Efficiency Ratio (Kaufman ER, 0-1)-0.1420.3024n.s.
4H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)+0.1530.2651n.s.
1H Structure Flips (BOS+CHoCH count)-0.1040.4480n.s.
1H Extension from EMA50 (x ATR14)-0.1100.4231n.s.
Regime scatter gridGood vs bad months regime comparison