Recursive Ease & Strength Pivot Trader

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

Thesis

The strategy exploits the 'Ease of Movement' phenomenon where sustainable trends are often characterized by price advancing with low volume-based resistance, confirmed by a currency's relative strength against a broad basket. By entering at structural pivot breaches only when volatility is within 'normal' bounds (BB) and adjusted for current expansion (VR), we filter for high-conviction momentum.

Components

• Ease of Movement (EOM) (regime) — Used as a regime filter to ensure price is moving 'easily' (low resistance) in the direction of the trend.
• Currency Strength Template (direction) — Provides the primary directional bias by identifying the strongest/weakest currencies in the basket.
• Roshaneforde Pivot Levels (entry) — Provides the specific execution trigger based on breached horizontal support/resistance levels.
• CCI / Connectable [Azullian] (exit) — Identifies momentum exhaustion for exits before the recursive trend indicators lag behind a reversal.
• Volatility Ratio (VR) (risk) — Dynamically adjusts stop-loss distance based on recent price range expansion vs historical average.
• Recursive Moving Average Unlimited (confirmation) — Acts as a final trend confirmation to prevent entries against a heavily smoothed multi-iterative trend line.
• Bollinger Bands (Standard) (volatility_filter) — Filters out entries when price is overextended (outside bands) or in a low-volatility squeeze.

Known failure conditions

• Currency Strength Template shows neutral values across the entire basket for >48 hours.
• Price frequently oscillates across the Recursive MA without clear direction (mean-reversion regime).
• High Volatility Ratio (VR > 2.0) consistently triggers stops before price reaches target.

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