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Strategy S/01

Open Drive

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Trades the first clean break of the New York opening range, in the direction the market chooses.

The rules, in plain words

  1. Marks the high and low of the first 15 minutes of the New York session (9:30 to 9:45 AM ET).
  2. Waits for a full 5-minute candle to close outside that range.
  3. Enters in the direction of the break. One trade a day, first break only.
  4. Stop sits at or just past the middle of the opening range.
  5. Target is a fixed 2 to 1 reward to risk.
  6. If the range is not broken by 12:00 PM ET, the day is skipped.
Change log

What we changed, and why.

We keep tuning Open Drive. Every change is dated, newest first.

  1. Target set to a fixed 2 to 1. Breakeven at 1R, half off at 2R, and the rest split between a next target and a runner to the session high or low.

    WhyMatches how the strategy is traded by hand. The old target was taken from a course PDF.

  2. Break now measured on a 5-minute close on any chart. Stop buffers of 2 and 7 points, and 30% and 40% stops, added as test versions.

    WhyOn 1- or 3-minute charts the old code used the wrong candle. Whichever stop tests worse gets dropped.

  3. Two-loss daily stop tested per trading day and per session.

    WhyApplies to every strategy on an account. A breakeven trade never counts as a loss.

  4. Round 1 independent backtest finished. Kept for round 2.

    WhyIt held up as written over 15 years of data, but with a thin edge once trading costs were doubled. Two small changes looked better and are being re-checked.

  5. Rebuilt as its own standalone strategy file with the shared LT/9 settings layout and risk engine.

    WhySo every strategy can be tested on its own and run as a separate process, with the same risk controls and the same settings panel everywhere.

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S/02Live

Open Drive Retest

Waits for the opening range break, then enters on the first pullback into the price gap the break leaves behind.

Testing nextTwo versions side by side: the 5-minute gap at the break, and a 1-minute gap inside the opening range. A 1-hour trend check is also being tested.
S/03Research

Key Open: Rejection

Looks for a sharp rejection right after one of the six key session opens, then enters on the pullback.

Testing nextRebuilt with all six key opens, the setup checklist off and at minimum scores of 1, 2 and 3, and the news-day target used only on CPI, PPI and jobs days.
S/04Research

Key Open: Retest

After price moves hard away from a key open, waits for it to come back and retest the opening price.

Testing nextSix key opens with their own time windows, and three cancel rules compared: no cancel, cancel past the 70.5% level, and cancel on a close past 79%.

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