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Automation Strategy Definition Template

This document provides a structured template for defining and managing automated trading strategies, covering aspects like origin metadata, signal definitions, state machines, risk controls, and telemetry.

Entry Conditions vs. Statistical-Edge Conditions

Why the rules that trigger a trade are fundamentally different from the rules that define your statistical edge — and why separating them is the foundation of correct stop-loss, take-profit, and position sizing design.

First Bollinger Midline Reject

This page details the "First Bollinger Midline Reject" trading strategy, focusing on the first rejection at the Bollinger midline after a regime flip, capturing momentum continuation following volatility re-expansion.

MECE Components of Market Activity

A mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) classification of market activity and potential activity — covering volume, positions, order books, and latent liquidity.

Payoff Symmetry

Learn how to achieve payoff symmetry in trading by balancing potential gains and losses through strategic hedging and scaling, not just equal position sizes.

Small-Collateral High-Torque Breakouts

This guide outlines a high-risk trading strategy focused on using small, isolated collateral with high leverage to capitalize on short, explosive market movements. It includes guidelines for capital discipline, setup, order placement, and post-trade analysis.

SPL: The DIY Trading Execution Platform

SPL is a modular trading execution platform that enables users to run trade strategies seamlessly across shadow, paper, and live modes without impacting real liquidity until desired. The platform offers a pluggable, reproducible, and safe environment for executing trading strategies with a unified logic.

Strategy-Specific Stop Modeling

How to determine stop-loss distance using drawdown and persistence distributions instead of ATR, based on the strategy’s own statistical behavior.

The Recency Mirage

How repeated price exposure distorts perceived probability, even under statistically backed trading.

The Three Bollinger Regimes

Explore the three Bollinger Band regimes: full-range oscillation, uptrend, and downtrend, and learn how price movements and midline testing predict market trends.