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IDEA: AUTO VIDEO SCOUT — evaluate this trading strategy video for the swarm: VIDEO: "Live Tutorial: Beginner Guide to Pass Prop Firm Challenge in 2026" by Call The Candle — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxl60UujCAU (duration 407s, 0 views; found via search 'prop firm passing strategy revealed'). 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: Nothing would have changed. The video discloses no mechanical entry, exit, or risk rules — only a title, a prop-firm affiliate pointer, and "check channel about section." There is no signal to overlay on the current window, so the 10 l Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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