Across 2024 trend / 2023 chop / 2026 hostile windows, distance from the
H1 EMA200 was empirically the most discriminative variable. Sweet spot
0.5-1.5% from EMA200; closer = false-breakout chop, farther = chase.
Outside the band, confidence is multiplied by 0.55 so the trade falls
below the B-grade threshold and is rejected.
Cumulative return across the 3 windows: +13.88% baseline -> +35.50%.
Win rate improved in every regime; 2023 chop turned positive (-2.56% to
+14.94%).
Also extends the trade journal with per-timeframe MTF scores, RSI at
entry, and EMA200 distance for future filter mining; surfaces ema_trend
in key_levels so the gate can read it.
Framework:
- TechnicalConfig.disabled_indicators skips named indicators in engine.analyze
- Optimizer supports disable_indicator override for parallel ablation sweeps
- main.py --ablate runs leave-one-out across all 10 directional indicators
Cleanup applied (validated across 2024 trend / 2023 chop / 2026 recent):
- Drop pivot by default (cumulative +9.5% to disable)
- Drop candlestick by default (+3.4% cumulative)
- Regime-gate ichimoku: 1.3x in trending, 0.2x in ranging (was a chop villain)
- Trim RSI weight 1.0 -> 0.3 (cumulative noise across regimes)
Result: +10.60% on 2024 trend (+33.24% -> +43.84%, Sharpe 2.17 -> 2.77),
+15.71% on 2023 chop (-18.27% -> -2.56%). Recent regime still adverse.
Harwinder
harry