Efficiency-Filtered Momentum Reversion

Family: pullback · Regime: trending · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: FX, Equities, Indices · Timeframes: H1, H4

Thesis

The strategy bets that 'efficient' price moves (those moving far with little relative volume, as measured by EOM) represent the path of least resistance. By entering pullbacks (BB) in the direction of this efficiency, confirmed by momentum (CCI/MOM), we capture the resumption of a trend before a volatility reversal (SuperTrend) occurs.

Components

• Ease of Movement (EOM) (regime) — Acts as a regime filter to ensure trades are taken when price moves efficiently relative to volume, filtering out high-friction 'grinding' price action.
• Momentum (MOM) (direction) — Identifies the underlying velocity of the price change to ensure the primary trend is intact before entering a pullback.
• Bollinger bands / Connectable [Azullian] (entry) — Provides the specific trigger point for entering a pullback; entries occur when price overextends to the opposite band within a trend.
• SuperTrend (exit) — Serves as a trailing stop and trend-invalidation exit, locking in profits as the trend progresses or reversing when the trend breaks.
• iExposure (risk) — Used to aggregate net exposure across the account; though visual, the logic ensures no more than 2% of equity is at risk across correlated symbols.
• Commodity Channel Index (CCI) (confirmation) — Confirms the momentum shift at the entry point (CCI crossing out of oversold/overbought levels) to prevent catching a 'falling knife'.
• Qualitative Quantitative Estimation (QQE) with Alerts (volatility_filter) — Filters out entries where smoothed RSI momentum is not supportive of the trade direction, reducing whipsaws in low-volatility regimes.

Known failure conditions

• EOM stays near zero for extended periods, indicating a total lack of market efficiency.
• Successive losses occurring when price 'rides the bands' of the Bollinger setup without CCI crossing back.
• Divergence between MOM and EOM for >10 bars, indicating volume-less price drifting.

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