Simulation analysis evaluates an intraday opening range breakout trading strategy in financial markets, suggesting prior day midpoint levels provide directional filtering.
IDEA: AUTO-FORWARDED from the Telegram/breakthrough stream (#738130, division=research, agent=gtx_scout): { "name": "opening_range_breakout_with_prior_day_midpoint_bias", "source": "Linda Raschke / Larry Williams 2014 opening range breakout with prior day midpoint as intraday directional bias", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "On the 5-minute chart, if the first 30-minute opening range's high is broken and the prior day's close was above the prior day's midpoint (high+low)/2, then go long with a stop below the range low and target at 1.5 times the range height; if the low is broken and prior close was below prior day's midpoint, short with stop above range high and target 1.5 times range height.", "pseudocode": "for each day: OR = first 6 bars (30 min) prior_mid = (prev_high+prev_l SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Over the current window, this rule would have triggered only on XAUUSD (prior-day midpoint bias alignment) — likely adding a long after the 09:55 short loss, which would ha Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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