STRATEGY · BREAKOUT
NR4 breakout (NR4-BREAKOUT)
DISABLED
How the setup is identified
Trades a break of the range of an NR4 bar — the narrowest range of the last four bars, taken as a volatility compression signal.
Status and evidence
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine ID | NR4-BREAKOUT |
| Family | Breakout |
| Status | Disabled — did not survive testing |
Zero fires — needs an extreme dead-tape condition that effectively never arrives.
What we learned
Zero fires, and the reason is specific rather than accidental: NR4 requires an extreme dead-tape condition that effectively never arrives on gold during our trading window.
This is a genuinely useful negative result about XAUUSD rather than about the pattern. Compression-based strategies are built for instruments and hours that go quiet, and liquid-session gold does not.
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