Kalman-Spread Momentum Framework

Family: hybrid · Regime: trending · Complexity: high · Asset classes: Equities, Crypto, FX Pairs · Timeframes: 1H, 4H

Thesis

Temporary pricing inefficiencies between highly correlated assets can be captured by Kalman Filters; however, these mean-reversion trades are only viable when they align with the prevailing trend regime and show immediate momentum recovery. By anchoring risk to psychological round numbers, the strategy exploits institutional order-flow zones where price is statistically likely to find support/resistance during a reversion.

Components

• MA Channel (Framework Version) (regime) — Acts as the primary regime filter, ensuring entries only occur in established trends (Trend > 0 for Longs) to avoid mean-reversion traps in strong trending markets.
• Unsupported ta.macd Fast Length (Test Case) (direction) — Used as an ultra-fast momentum proxy. Despite the semantic error in the source, the hypothesis relies on the hypersensitivity of a 1.5-period EMA to confirm immediate price velocity in the direction of the mean-reversion.
• AI Pair Trading System v1.0 (entry) — The core alpha engine. Uses Kalman-filtered spreads between two correlated assets to identify statistical extremes (Z-Score) likely to revert to the mean.
• HiLo Activator (Pandini Version) (exit) — Provides a trailing exit mechanism that tightens during high-volatility mean-reversion moves, protecting gains when the local trend exhausts.
• Round Levels Zone Shading (risk) — Used to define hard stop-loss levels at psychological round numbers (institutional liquidity zones) rather than arbitrary percentages.

Known failure conditions

• De-correlation of the selected pair (e.g., ETH and BTC lose cointegration), rendering the Kalman spread meaningless.
• High-frequency whipsaws around the 1.5 MACD zero line causing excessive slippage.
• Price ignores Round Level zones during high-impact news events (slippage through SL).

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