Velocity-Structure Hybrid Trend System

Family: trend_following · Regime: trending · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: Equities, Major FX Pairs · Timeframes: M15, H1

Thesis

Market trends are most tradable when price velocity (REI) is high and aligned with institutional-level structural breakouts (Trendlines/MACD). By entering on short-term momentum pullbacks (Stochastics) during high-liquidity hours, we capture the meat of the move, using a volatility-based exit (Gator) to escape before the 'sated' phase of the trend cycle leads to a reversal.

Components

• Range Expansion Index (REI) (regime) — Filters out noise by ensuring the market is not in a 'stale' or non-trending range before allowing entries.
• Best Volume Trend Expert (direction) — Provides the core bias by combining market structure (trendlines) and momentum (MACD) within high-liquidity sessions.
• Stochastic Oscillator (entry) — Acts as the execution trigger by identifying short-term momentum exhaustion (pullbacks) in the direction of the trend.
• Gator Oscillator (exit) — Identifies the 'sated' phase of the Bill Williams cycle to exit before the trend exhausts or reverses.
• Parabolic SAR (risk) — Provides a dynamic, accelerating trailing stop-loss that tightens as price moves in favor.

Known failure conditions

• REI remains near zero for extended periods during price movement, suggesting the filter is too restrictive for the specific asset volatility.
• Trendlines in the 'Best Volume' component are not updated, leading to stale directional bias.
• Parabolic SAR trailing stop is hit consistently before Gator reaches 'sated' phase, indicating stop-loss tightness is incompatible with trend volatility.

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