Linear-Cyclical Grid Hybrid
Family: hybrid · Regime: trending · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: Equities, Forex, Indices · Timeframes: H1, H4
Thesis
Price action is governed by three primary forces: a macro linear trend (captured by Ghost Channels), a short-term cyclical oscillation (captured by DSP), and institutional liquidity zones located at fixed point intervals (captured by the Grid). By entering a trade when momentum (MACD) aligns with the regression trend but before the cycle exhausts or hits a horizontal structural boundary, we capture high-probability segments of the price wave with volatility-defined risk.
Components
- Point Based Grid (regime) — Defines 'Institutional Horizontal Regimes.' Price action often stalls or accelerates at fixed point intervals due to round-number psychological effects and fixed-grid HFT execution.
- Ghost Channels [mph1nance] (direction) — Establishes the prevailing trend slope and fits a linear regression to filter out random noise, ensuring we only trade high-confidence directional moves.
- Connect MACD (Azullian) (entry) — Acts as the momentum trigger to enter the market when the short-term momentum aligns with the Ghost Channel direction.
- Ehlers Detrended Synthetic Price (DSP) (exit) — Identifies the end of a local price cycle. Because it removes the trend, it signals exhaustion even when the macro trend remains intact, allowing for precise profit-taking.
- ATR Stop Loss Finder (risk) — Provides a volatility-adjusted floor (or ceiling) to protect against noise-induced stops.
Known failure conditions
- Persistent Ghost Channel Fit Quality (R2) below 0.3, indicating a non-linear, chaotic market structure.
- Price volatility exceeding 3x the Grid increment, rendering the horizontal levels irrelevant.
- Connect MACD producing multiple whipsaws in a 'flat' Ghost Channel regime (Urgency < 20).
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