Statistical Drift Exhaustion Hybrid

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

Thesis

The hypothesis is that financial assets with high statistical drift (measured by ADM with HAC-adjusted variance) exhibit brief momentum climaxes against the primary trend. By using an 'inverted' ADX signal to enter during these climaxes, we can capture the resumption of the primary drift. The RAE filter ensures we only enter when price movement is structurally 'orderly,' and ZigZag/Sherif Hilo provide structure-based exits to protect capital.

Components

• Asset Drift Model (ADM) (regime) — Establishes the macro regime by ensuring a statistically significant drift (t-stat) and non-random walk behavior (Variance Ratio).
• Bears Power (direction) — Used to identify the exhaustion of selling pressure. In a long setup, we look for Bears Power to recover toward zero, signifying bears are losing control of the lows.
• ADX Crossing INGM (entry) — Provides the execution trigger. Utilizing the 'Logical Inversion' noted in the documentation, it triggers a 'Buy' when +DI crosses below -DI, effectively acting as a contrarian entry into the primary drift during a momentum climax.
• Sherif Hilo (exit) — Provides a trailing trend-stop. The HHV/LLV logic ensures the trade is held through minor noise but exited when the trend structure breaks.
• ZigZag+ v5 (risk) — Used for hard stop-loss placement based on the most recent confirmed market structure swing point.
• Relative Absolute Error (RAE) (volatility_filter) — Acts as a signal quality filter; low RAE suggests the price is moving in a coherent, predictable manner relative to its mean rather than erratic noise.

Known failure conditions

• The Asset Drift Model t-stat falls between -1.0 and 1.0 for extended periods (regime drift decay).
• RAE stays consistently above 1.2, indicating the asset has entered a high-entropy/random-walk state.
• ZigZag swing points occur with higher frequency than the entry signals, suggesting excessive volatility.

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