Log-Normalized MSLE Breakout System

Family: breakout · Regime: trending · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: FX, Equities, Crypto · Timeframes: H1, H4, D1

Thesis

Market volatility clusters; periods of low Mean Squared Logarithmic Error (MSLE) indicate price stability that often precedes a violent breakout. By entering when price breaches a Keltner Channel during these low-error states, while confirmed by a lag-minimized Hull Moving Average, we capture the initiation of a new trend phase while exiting via CCI momentum exhaustion.

Components

• Logarithmic Transformation (LOG) (regime) — Normalizes price data to provide a stabilized variance baseline for the MSLE filter and Keltner calculation.
• Hull Moving Average (HMA) (direction) — Identifies the primary momentum bias with minimal lag, ensuring trades align with the immediate structural trend.
• Keltner Channels (entry) — Detects volatility-driven breakouts beyond the standard deviation of price movement for trade entry.
• CCI / Connectable [Azullian] (exit) — Captures the exhaustion of momentum in overbought/oversold zones to trigger trade exits before reversals.
• ATR Heiken Ashi (risk) — Calculates stop-loss levels based on smoothed Heiken-Ashi volatility to avoid noise-induced stop-outs.
• Mean Squared Logarithmic Error (MSLE) (volatility_filter) — Acts as a volatility regime filter; entry is permitted only when MSLE is low, indicating a stable trend environment suitable for breakout following.

Known failure conditions

• Persistence of low-volatility 'drifting' price action that never triggers KC bands but keeps HMA flipping.
• Sudden macro events causing price gaps that exceed the ATR-HA stop-loss before execution.

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