Float-Cycle Pivot Breakout

Family: hybrid · Regime: trending · Complexity: high · Asset classes: Equities, FX, Commodities (Intraday) · Timeframes: M15, H1

Thesis

Market breakouts are only sustainable if they are accompanied by a specific threshold of share/contract turnover ('Float') and are confirmed by zero-lag trend filters (USF). By entering on structural pivots and exiting at the Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP), the strategy exploits the tendency of price to overextend during turnover cycles before reverting to institutional mean value.

Components

• Float Indicator (regime) — Defines the 'exhaustion' or 'accumulation' regime based on how many times the float has turned over in the current swing.
• Ehlers Ultimate Smoother Filter (USF) (direction) — Provides the primary trend direction with minimal lag, filtering out high-frequency noise that often triggers false pivot breaks.
• Pivot Points (Classic) (entry) — Provides the structural triggers (S1 bounce or R1 break) which act as price-based catalysts for entries.
• Daily Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP) (exit) — Acts as the institutional 'fair value' anchor; once price moves too far, it becomes a target for mean reversion or profit-taking.
• Darvas Boxes Modern/Classic (risk) — Defines the volatility-adjusted risk envelope. Stop losses are placed at the box boundaries to ensure the trade is invalidated by a structural breakdown.
• Moving Averages (Multi-Method) (confirmation) — Used as a final 'momentum' filter to ensure price is moving with velocity relative to the USF trend.

Known failure conditions

• Persistent low-volume environments where the Float Indicator fails to reach turnover thresholds.
• Price oscillating tightly around the Daily VWAP, causing immediate exits.
• Highly gapping markets where Pivot levels are bypassed entirely at the open.

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