Fractal OrderBlock Momentum Scalpel

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

Thesis

The strategy hypothesizes that sustainable market trends are born from institutional OrderBlocks during periods of decreasing fractal dimension (increasing market efficiency). By using FRAMA to identify these efficient regimes and WAE to confirm the 'explosion' of momentum, we can enter early-stage trends. The inclusion of the CCC filter serves to identify 'smart money' distribution (D-Days) and exhaustion (Climaxes), allowing the strategy to avoid entering at the end of a move where retail traders typically get trapped.

Components

• Ehlers Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) (regime) — Acts as the primary regime filter; a positive slope indicates a trending fractal dimension suitable for trend-following entries.
• Profile dynamic series history for-in result miss (direction) — Provides a short-term momentum 'sanity check' by ensuring current price has progressed relative to a 3-bar lookback, filtering out stagnant price action.
• OrderBlock FVG Detector (entry) — Identifies institutional supply/demand zones. Entries are triggered when a bullish/bearish OB forms in alignment with the regime.
• Waddah Attar Explosion (WAE) (exit) — Used to detect momentum exhaustion; exits occur when the trend power falls below the explosion threshold.
• Extrem SuperTrend (risk) — Determines the hard stop loss and trailing stop based on ATR-derived volatility bands.
• Combined Candle Counter (CCC) Dev (volatility_filter) — Filters out entries during Buying/Selling climaxes or Distribution Days which signal late-stage trend exhaustion.

Known failure conditions

• The FRAMA slope remains flat for extended periods while OrderBlocks trigger, leading to 'death by a thousand cuts' in low-volatility ranges.
• Frequent 'D-Day' signals in the CCC filter prevent entry during valid, high-volatility breakouts.
• WAE Explosion line stays above Trend power consistently due to an inappropriately high DeadZonePip setting.

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