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Strategy Library
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CL / HO Crack Spread
Trades the simplified 1:1 crack spread (Heating Oil vs WTI Crude) as a mean-reversion ratio. Long the crack when refined product cheapens relative to crude, short when it richens, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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CL / NG Energy Pair
Trades the CL/NG (crude oil / natural gas) price ratio as a mean-reversion spread. Long the ratio when it stretches low, short when it stretches high, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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Copper/Gold Pair Spread
Trades the Copper/Gold price ratio as a mean-reversion spread. Long the ratio when it stretches low, short when it stretches high, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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ES/NQ Pair Spread
Trades the ES/NQ price ratio as a mean-reversion spread. Long the ratio when it stretches low, short when it stretches high, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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Time of Day
Enter at one minute-from-RTH-open and exit at another, every session, in a fixed direction. No price logic at all, just a clock-driven test of when the market tends to drift.
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VIX Spike Fade
Long ES at the close after a VIX spike. Time-based exit, no stops. A direct take on the old "buy when there is blood in the streets" idea.
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WTI / Brent Spread
Trades the WTI/Brent (CL/BZ) price ratio as a mean-reversion spread. Long the ratio when it stretches low, short when it stretches high, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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YM/RTY Size Spread
Trades the YM/RTY price ratio as a mean-reversion spread on the large-cap vs small-cap relationship. Long the ratio when it stretches low, short when it stretches high, exit on z-score return to neutral.
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Bollinger / Keltner Bands
Trades volatility bands four ways. Fade the band touch back to the middle, or trade the break through the band, on either Bollinger or Keltner channels. One strategy, four textbook stances.
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Day-of-Week Bias
Buys on one weekday's close and sells on another. A direct way to test long-running calendar effects in US equity index futures.
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Donchian Turtle
Classic Turtle channel breakout. Enter on a close through a longer-period Donchian high or low, exit on a close back through a shorter exit channel. The original trend-following template, parameterized.
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Gap Trades
Trades the daily session gap. Continuation when an intraday close confirms the gap, fade when the intraday close rejects it. One-bar holds, no stops.
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NR7 / Inside Day Breakout
Waits for a narrow-range setup bar, then trades the next-bar break of its high or low. A direct way to test whether contraction precedes expansion on daily futures.
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Opening Range Breakout
Records the high and low of the first N minutes of the regular trading hours session, then takes a directional break of that range until session close. Intraday only, flat overnight.
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Range Break Failure
Fades failed breakouts of a rolling N-session range on daily bars. When price pierces the range and then closes back inside within a few sessions, the strategy enters in the opposite direction of the original break.
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RSI Mean Reversion
Buys oversold RSI dips and shorts overbought spikes, exits on a cross back through a neutral threshold. The textbook short-term mean reversion shape, parameterized.
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Squeeze Break
Waits for Bollinger Bands to compress inside Keltner Channels, then trades the breakout when the squeeze releases. A direct expression of the volatility-contraction-then-expansion idea.
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Three-Bar Reversal
Fades a three-bar momentum sequence, holds for a fixed bar count. A direct test of the classic reversal pattern from chart-reading folklore.
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Time-Series Momentum
Long when the past-year return (excluding the most recent month) is positive, short when it is negative. Rebalance monthly. The AQR-style trend-following rule, parameterized.
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Gold/Silver Ratio
Shorts the gold/silver ratio when it stretches to an extreme and covers when it compresses back. One-sided, rare, long-hold mean reversion between two metals.
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Breakout Continuation
Donchian-channel breakout. Goes long on a break above the prior N-bar high, short on a break below the prior N-bar low. Bidirectional, bracket exits.
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MA Crossover
A classic flip-on-cross trend strategy. Goes long when the fast SMA crosses above the slow SMA, short on the opposite cross, always in the market once the first cross fires.
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Pattern Rotation
Volatility-filtered Donchian breakout. Trades the channel break only when an ATR ratio classifies the regime as expanding; stays flat when volatility is contracting.
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Pullback Reversion
Long-only dip buyer. Waits for price to pull back to a short moving average inside an uptrend, then enters on the bounce with a fixed-points bracket.
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Random
Flip a coin (or an ensemble of coins) at 9:30 ET, bracket the entry with fixed point-based targets, force-flatten at 16:00 ET. Any return comes from the risk/reward shape, not the signal.