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IDEA: AUTO VIDEO SCOUT — evaluate this trading strategy video for the swarm: VIDEO: "Break And Retest - The Forex Strategy Of The GODS." by Nick Shawn — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjZgT9rSRus (duration 1104s, 23251 views; found via search 'market structure break retest strategy'). TASK FOR MERLIN: From the title, channel and your knowledge of this trader/method, identify the strategy being taught. Judge it for OUR use: we scalp fast (15s-7m charts), long or short, targets set by E8 sacred geometry BEFORE entry. State what the method gets right, where it is weak, and exactly how E8 node/rhythm logic would improve on it. Verdict PROMISING only if a concrete, testable edge exists that we can code into the Replay Bench. SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Over the current live window, this break-and-retest method would have added entries on EURUSD and USDJPY only (the pairs in the bench), likely triggering 2–4 extra trades around the 2026-09-01 to 09-04 swings. Given the 15m+ timeframe positive exp Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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