Ichimoku-VWAP Breadth Pullback Trader

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

Thesis

The strategy hypothesizes that trends are most robust when supported by internal 'breadth' (more up candles than down candles in a window), and that institutional participants use VWAP as a liquidity magnet. By entering only when price touches VWAP during an expansion of candle-range 'boxes', we capture the resumption of momentum (confirmed by Average Force) while filtering out low-energy noise.

Components

• Advance/Decline Ratio (Bars) (regime) — Filters for 'market breadth' within a single asset by ensuring price directionality is consistent and not driven by a single outlier candle.
• Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (direction) — Provides the macro trend bias and structural support/resistance via the Kumo cloud.
• VWAP + EMA Cross Pullback (entry) — Identifies high-probability entries where price returns to the institutional average (VWAP) within a trending EMA environment.
• Chandelier Exit Heiken Ashi Variant (exit) — Trailing stop that responds to Heiken Ashi smoothed trends to prevent premature exits during minor noise.
• ATR Stop Loss Finder (risk) — Defines the initial hard stop based on volatility-adjusted price floors/ceilings.
• Average Force (confirmation) — Ensures momentum is recovering from the pullback before execution (must be crossing/above zero).
• Unsupported Array Percentile Linear Interpolation Box (volatility_filter) — Used as a volatility gate; requires the current candle's range to be above the median 'box' size of recent candles to ensure liquidity and movement.

Known failure conditions

• Trend reversals occur faster than the Ichimoku Kumo can shift, leading to 'trap' entries.
• Low volatility environments where price oscillates around VWAP without direction.
• The ADR_B indicator produces values of 1.0 for extended periods, neutralizing the regime filter.

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