PVR Confluence Trend Scout

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

Thesis

Trends are most sustainable when price direction is positively correlated with volume expansion and market breadth. By filtering for bars where price and volume rise together (PVR 1) within a confirmed MA-channel breakout, and ensuring price is not at a volatility extreme (Grid Bot), we capture high-conviction moves. The hypothesis is that using higher-timeframe structural extremes (Daily High/Low) as risk anchors protects against intraday noise while allowing the trend to breathe.

Components

• Price Volume Rank (PVR) (regime) — Acts as a regime filter to ensure trades are only taken during 'High Conviction' bars where price movement is supported by rising volume (PVR 1 or 4).
• MA Channel Band (L'mas System) (direction) — Provides the structural trend bias by requiring both price and a faster MA to escape a long-term channel, reducing noise from minor fluctuations.
• Commodity Channel Index (CCI) (entry) — Used as the tactical entry trigger to identify momentum shifts back in the direction of the primary trend.
• OTLIB Stochastic Oscillator (exit) — Identifies mean-reversion points or momentum exhaustion for exiting positions using smoothed oscillator crossovers.
• Daily High Low (risk) — Establishes hard structural invalidation points based on the previous day's extremes, providing objective stop-loss levels.
• Advance/Decline Ratio (Bars) (confirmation) — Confirms the internal strength of the move by ensuring the majority of recent candles support the trade direction (breadth filter).
• Grid Bot [Grid range plugin] Two Moving Avarages [psyll] (volatility_filter) — Serves as a volatility exhaustion filter, preventing entries when price has moved too far from the rolling mean of the MAs.

Known failure conditions

• Persistent low-volume trending environments where PVR fails to register state 1/4 despite price movement.
• Hyper-volatile 'V-bottom' reversals where the L'mas System lag prevents timely direction switching.
• Daily ranges that are too narrow, causing the DHL stop loss to be hit by noise before the trend develops.

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