Adaptive Cycle Structure Extrapolation Strategy

Family: hybrid · Regime: trending · Complexity: high · Asset classes: Equities, Forex, Commodities · Timeframes: H1, H4

Thesis

This strategy operates on the hypothesis that institutional 'smart money' (Order Blocks) creates structural supports within a trend, and the most reliable entries occur when a short-term momentum pullback (Stochastic) aligns with the dominant market cycle expansion (SAM) and a positive volatility projection (GOM BB). By filtering for cycle-alignment, we avoid the 'embeddedness' weakness of Stochastics in strong trends.

Components

Indicator Sample Diagnostic (regime) — Serves as a pre-flight system check to ensure 'rates_total' and 'time' arrays are sufficiently populated for the complex Homodyne cycle calculations in the SAM component.
Heiken Ashi (direction) — Establishes the primary trend direction using synthetic smoothing to filter out intraday volatility.
Stochastic Oscillator (ta.stoch) (entry) — Identifies short-term momentum exhaustion (pullbacks) within the established Heiken Ashi trend.
Heikin-Ashi Candles (exit) — Provides a trailing exit logic by closing positions when the synthetic candle color flips, signaling a trend reversal or significant momentum loss.
Order Block & FVG Detector (risk) — Provides structural 'hard' levels for Stop Loss placement based on identified institutional buying/selling zones.
Smoothed Adaptive Momentum (confirmation) — Confirms the entry by ensuring the price momentum is aligned with the dominant market cycle period.
GOM BB Prediction (300 bars) (volatility_filter) — Filters out signals where the extrapolated Bollinger Mid-band slope is flat, preventing entries in non-trending or low-volatility environments.

Known failure conditions

The GOM BB linear slope remains near zero for extended periods, indicating a permanent shift to range-bound price action.
Rapidly fluctuating dominant cycle periods (cycle smearing) causing the SAM to oscillate too quickly for trend capture.
Price breaches Order Blocks without reversal, indicating a break in market structure.

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