Weekly Gap-Cloud Momentum Breakout

Family: trend_following · Regime: trending · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: Forex, Indices, Commodities · Timeframes: H1, H4

Thesis

Market participants often use the weekend to digest news, leading to Sunday gaps that signal institutional weekly bias. By combining this structural bias with volatility expansion (NNFX Squeeze) and volume-weighted momentum (MFI), we can enter trends when high-conviction volume returns after a consolidation phase, using psychological round numbers (Grid) as natural liquidity-based support/resistance levels.

Components

• Sunday Opening Gap (regime) — Establishes the weekly directional bias; a gap that remains unfilled or is rejected suggests institutional positioning for the week.
• Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (direction) — Defines the core trend direction and momentum via price relative to the Kumo (Cloud) and the Tenkan/Kijun cross.
• Money Flow Index (MFI) (entry) — Acts as the execution trigger by identifying volume-backed momentum exhaustion or resets within a trend.
• MACD Classic (3-Line) (exit) — Provides a signal to exit when momentum diverges or crosses over, indicating the trend leg has exhausted.
• Grid Points Utility (risk) — Provides objective 'Psychological' levels for placing hard stops and calculating position size based on distance to the next grid line.
• NNFX Squeeze (Volatility Breakout) (confirmation) — Confirms that a breakout from a low-volatility period is occurring, preventing entries during late-stage trend exhaustion.
• Gain Loss Info (Visual Overlays) (volatility_filter) — Filters out low-volatility 'noise' candles to ensure the strategy only enters on significant price movements.

Known failure conditions

• The Sunday Gap is filled within the first 4 hours of trading, indicating a lack of sustained weekly conviction.
• MFI remains in overbought/oversold territory for >50 bars without a MACD crossover, indicating a 'melt-up' regime where this momentum-based entry fails.

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