Kumo-StatArb Momentum Hybrid

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

Thesis

The strategy operates on the hypothesis that major trends are best entered when momentum and market structure align, but best exited when the asset's price becomes statistically detached from its historical relationship with a correlated peer. By using MdAE for risk, we account for typical forecast errors rather than just price volatility (ATR), potentially providing tighter, more logical stops in stable trends. The edge lies in exiting 'before' the trend reversal by identifying statistical exhaustion in the broader market context (the pair relationship).

Components

• Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (regime) — Defines the primary trend regime; price must be outside the Kumo cloud to ensure we are not in a low-volatility ranging environment.
• Absolute Strength Histogram (ASH) (direction) — Provides the directional filter by measuring the raw strength of bulls vs bears based on RSI components.
• Qualitative Quantitative Estimation (QQE) (entry) — The trigger mechanism; uses volatility-adjusted RSI smoothing to identify momentum breakouts within the established trend.
• AI Pair Trading System v1.0 (exit) — Acts as a sophisticated mean-reversion exit; assumes that even in a trend, an asset will revert to its statistical relationship with a benchmark pair.
• Median Absolute Error (risk) — Used to calculate a robust, outlier-resistant stop loss based on the median forecast error of price movement.
• Bulls Power (Elder-ray) (confirmation) — Final momentum confirmation; ensures the current high is significantly above the EMA, indicating active buyer aggression.

Known failure conditions

• The correlated benchmark asset in the AI Pair Trading system undergoes a structural decoupling.
• Prolonged sideways price action causing the Ichimoku Kumo to thin and the QQE to oscillate around the 50 level.
• Market volatility drops below the Median Absolute Error threshold, resulting in stops being hit by noise.

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