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"ORB Variants (long-only up-breakout)"

2026-08-26

Up-breakouts have positive OOS Sharpe; down-breakouts fail. Test LONG-ONLY ORB with filters. Exit@16:00 unless noted. Window 2020-2025, IS/OOS 2024-01-01. Fee-free.

long_only (baseline) (1260 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+9.20%0.31-14.87%1.05844
OOS+12.85%0.80-8.83%1.15415

OOS bootstrap p: 0.199

long_only + gap_up (712 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+6.73%0.39-16.48%1.06462
OOS+8.95%0.87-6.97%1.18249

OOS bootstrap p: 0.237

long_only + above_sma200 (870 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+11.48%0.75-8.34%1.11485
OOS+1.87%0.22-8.83%1.03384

OOS bootstrap p: 0.417

long_only + wide_orb (443 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+14.59%1.13-10.53%1.17259
OOS+9.00%0.97-8.80%1.19183

OOS bootstrap p: 0.244

long_only + orb_high>vwap (1260 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+9.20%0.31-14.87%1.05844
OOS+12.85%0.80-8.83%1.15415

OOS bootstrap p: 0.199

long_only + exit@14:00 (1260 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+6.32%0.26-17.81%1.04844
OOS+11.43%0.82-6.45%1.14416

OOS bootstrap p: 0.197

long_only + gap_up + above_sma200 (515 trades)

SegmentRetSharpeMaxDDPFDays
IS+11.45%1.18-7.16%1.19282
OOS+3.00%0.50-7.47%1.08232

OOS bootstrap p: 0.337

Summary (OOS)

VariantOOS SharpeOOS pVerdict
long_only (baseline)0.800.199REJECT
long_only + gap_up0.870.237REJECT
long_only + above_sma2000.220.417REJECT
long_only + wide_orb0.970.244REJECT
long_only + orb_high>vwap0.800.199REJECT
long_only + exit@14:000.820.197REJECT
long_only + gap_up + above_sma2000.500.337REJECT