KNN-Alligator Liquidity Sweep Hybrid
Family: hybrid · Regime: trending · Complexity: high · Asset classes: Forex, Indices, Equities · Timeframes: 1H, 4H
Thesis
Market trends are most reliable when they exhibit institutional volume (VSAI KNN) and smoothed structural momentum (Alligator). However, retail traders often enter at the peak of these trends. By waiting for a momentum pullback (CCI) into a zone of institutional liquidity (Daily Sweep), we can enter at a superior price with a stop-loss anchored to actual market structure rather than noise. This exploits the behavioral tendency of markets to 'sweep' liquidity before resuming a volume-backed trend.
Components
- Volume SuperTrend AI (Expo) (regime) — Acts as the primary regime filter, using KNN classification and volume-weighted data to ensure the trend has institutional participation rather than just price action.
- Bill Williams Alligator (direction) — Provides a secondary structural confirmation; the 'eating' state ensures the market is not in a sideways consolidation phase.
- CCI / Connectable [Azullian] (entry) — Used to identify 'over-extended' pullbacks within the established trend, providing a high-convexity entry point.
- TSI Convergence Divergence (TSI_CD) (exit) — Detects the decay of momentum through histogram color shifts, allowing for an exit before the price action fully reverses.
- The Daily Sweep (risk) — Mandatory for risk management; defines stop-loss levels based on identified institutional liquidity sweeps and Fair Value Gaps (FVG).
- Bollinger Bands (volatility_filter) — Ensures entries occur during periods of expanding volatility and prevents trading within 'squeezes' where KNN signals may be noisy.
Known failure conditions
- If the Daily Sweep fails to identify a liquidity level within 24 hours, the strategy lacks a valid stop-loss and must hibernate.
- KNN classification accuracy drops significantly in low-volume holiday periods, leading to regime whipsaws.
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