MODEL ADOPTION #2059: REJECT — LEDGER BENCH: Apply filter: Min confirmations >= 5 — improves win rate from 31.9% to 33.6% — E8 Intelligence Research

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Applying a minimum confirmation filter of >= 5 to trading signals is a statistical artifact that degrades the timing edge and overall profitability by delaying entries, despite a marginal and noisy increase in win rate. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Andrew Stewart Caldin

doi:10.5281/zenodo.22701965

September 11, 2026Open Access

MODEL ADOPTION #2059: REJECT — LEDGER BENCH: Apply filter: Min confirmations >= 5 — improves win rate from 31.9% to 33.6% — E8 Intelligence Research

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Evaluate whether imposing a minimum confirmation threshold of at least five signals delivers a robust performance edge or introduces backtest artifacts in algorithmic trading.
Evaluated trade performance across an execution sample of n=1352 trades under varying confirmation thresholds.
Analyzed trade count attrition, entry latency, and regime-dependent execution risks across USDJPY and XAUUSD breakout windows.
Win-rate increased marginally from 31.9% to 33.6% (+1.6 percentage points, n=1352), falling within statistical noise.
Trade volume decreased by approximately 15% to 20%, systematically delaying entries and degrading risk-reward capture on rapid breakout trends.
Identified risks of model overfitting to choppy market windows and prospective lookahead bias in retrospective signal counting.

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Backtest analysis demonstrates negligible win-rate gains from higher confirmation thresholds in trade execution models, suggesting delayed entries reduce overall returns through overfitting.

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