Stable Drift Relative Strength Composite

Family: trend_following · Regime: trending · Complexity: high · Asset classes: Equities, Forex, Crypto · Timeframes: H1, H4, D1

Thesis

This strategy hypothesizes that assets exhibiting high relative strength (Mansfield RS) and low prediction error (RMSE) are in 'clean' institutional accumulation/distribution phases. By entering only when multiple moving averages align and volume confirms a breakout, we isolate high-probability trend continuations. The use of an Asset Drift Model (ADM) for risk ensures that stop-losses are placed beyond the asset's noise floor (variance), reducing the probability of 'random walk' stop-outs.

Components

• Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) (regime) — Used as a regime filter to ensure the current trend is stable (low prediction error) rather than erratic or parabolic.
• Relative Strength Line [WavesUnchained] (direction) — Filters for assets outperforming a benchmark index, ensuring we only trade the 'strongest of the strong' or 'weakest of the weak'.
• Stochastic Oscillator (entry) — Provides the tactical entry trigger by identifying momentum turns within the established higher-timeframe trend.
• Momentum Oscillator (exit) — Serves as a mean-reversion exit signal when the rate-of-change begins to decay.
• Asset Drift Model (ADM) (risk) — Provides a statistical basis for stop-loss placement and position sizing based on the asset's observed variance and drift stationarity.
• Moving Average Ribbon (chingc) (confirmation) — Confirms trend alignment across multiple time horizons (20 to 200 periods) to avoid counter-trend traps.
• KandleKings™ WatchTower v1.0 (volatility_filter) — Acts as a final volatility and volume gate, ensuring entry occurs during a period of high participation (Volume > 1.5x SMA).

Known failure conditions

• The benchmark symbol (e.g., SPY) becomes highly correlated with the asset in a sideways regime, causing RS whipsaws.
• The ADM Drift signal becomes non-significant (t-stat < 1.96), indicating a transition to pure random walk.
• RMSE remains persistently above its 50-period average, suggesting a breakdown in trend stability.

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