Strategy Field Guide

The screener flags the dip (signal). Instead of catching the knife, a watch opens. In trailing mode (live-1, t212, Paper03) the trigger follows the lowest low: trough × 1.02. When price trades through it, the normal entry runs. In fixed mode (Paper02) the trigger is the signal price × 1.02. The watch expires after 5–6 days if no bounce comes.

Each buy gets a real stop at 2×ATR, capped at 8% below entry, from the moment it fills. The anchor sells at a fixed +5%. On accounts with trailing turned on (t212-isa: 25% of the buy), the runner has no fixed target. Once it's up +6% a trailing stop arms and follows 3% below the peak. Elsewhere, the whole buy exits at +5%. No time stop: a QSR position is held until the target or the stop fills.

When a bar closes more than 0.5× the daily ATR below VWAP (highlighted), enter. The target is VWAP at the moment of the signal, fixed rather than moving. The stop sits 1× ATR below entry. Anything still open at 15:55 ET is flattened, so nothing is held overnight.

Box the first 15 minutes. A 5-minute bar closes above the range high. Price pulls back, dips to the level and closes back above it (highlighted): enter on the next bar. Stop goes under the retest low and the target is 2× the risk.

Enter when price clears the 20-day high (upper channel). The stop starts at 2×ATR, capped at 15%. Once a daily close is +15% up, a trail arms 5% below the peak daily close. It widens to 15% once the peak gain reaches +30% and 25% from +60%, so a runaway move isn't shaken out by its normal 10–30% pullbacks. The trail moves only on the daily close (00:00 UTC): moving it on every 2-hourly price chased intraday spikes and sold positions on ordinary noise. The stop itself still fires any time, and a new 10-day low sells whatever the trail is doing.

Same mechanics as the trend strategy on hourly bars: break the 20-hour high, stop at 2×ATR capped at 10%. Where the trail is switched on (live-1 only; it's off on paper-main), it arms at +5% and follows only 2% under the peak, so it banks a spike fast. A new 10-hour low or 2 days held also ends it.

Bands are a 20-hour average ± 2 standard deviations. A close below the lower band with RSI14 under 35 (highlighted) triggers a buy. The target is 60% of the way back to the middle band. The stop is 2×ATR, capped at 8%, and the position is closed after 2 days whatever happens.

It needs all of these at once: a −1.5% drop within 15 minutes; the book tilted to buyers within 0.5% below price (imbalance ≥ 0.25, spread ≤ 0.3%); and sellers no longer dominating the tape (≤ 55% aggressive sells in 5 minutes). The stop sits just under the bid wall (0.4% buffer, max 3%) and the target is +1.5%.