R0654: WATCH

Descriptive statistics, no trading costs in the probabilities (the backtest columns alone use estimated costs). Rules were discovered and tuned on 2022-01 → 2024-12 only, frozen, then tested once on 2025-01 → 2026-10. Millions of hypotheses were searched, so read the corrected p-values and the out-of-sample columns, not the training hit rates. Not investment advice; not a trading system.

Rule: When size of the move from the open to 11:00 (either direction) ≥ 0.50% (≈126 pts at 25,000) AND range so far (high−low since 09:15) ≥ 0.83% (≈208 pts at 25,000) AND 1-min ADX(14) ≥ 28.7 at 11:00

Target: the day closes more than 150 pts beyond the open in the direction of the move so far · Decision time: 11:00 IST (uses bars up to 11:00 only) · Method: subgroup · Family: level / structure

70%train hit (n=40) vs base 20% · lift 3.53

76%OOS hit (n=17) vs base 25% · lift 3.02

[53%–90%]OOS Wilson 95% CI

1.2e-04OOS BH q (all) · family BH q 7.0e-05 · Holm 0.012

5.0e-04OOS matched-random placebo p

Verdict criteria

✔ Out-of-sample lift in the same direction as train
✔ OOS Wilson 95% CI excludes the OOS base rate
✔ OOS BH q ≤ 0.05 across all candidates tested OOS AND within its target family
✔ Train BH q ≤ 0.05 (across all hypotheses searched)
✔ Stable by year (same direction in ≥80% of years with ≥10 days, incl. every OOS year with ≥10)
✔ OOS matched-random placebo p ≤ 0.05
✘ OOS sample ≥ 20 days

Train p 1.8e-11; train BH q 7.3e-09; train Holm 1.7e-04 (corrections over all 9,242,869 hypotheses); whole-pipeline shuffled-label placebo family-wise p 0.010 (100 permutations). Extra conditions beat the best single condition OOS: True.

By year

year	rule days	hit	base (all days)	lift
2022	13	77%	25%	3.05
2023	5	60%	9%	6.39
2024	22	68%	25%	2.75
2025 (OOS)	11	82%	26%	3.12
2026 (OOS)	6	67%	24%	2.77

Spot-points backtest (estimated costs)

enter at 11:00 price in the move direction; stop 0.4% of entry; exit at close. Costs: Nifty futures round-trip model from nifty-setups-backtest/src/costs.py (brokerage, exchange, SEBI, stamp, GST, STT by date: 0.0125% → 0.02% from Oct-2024 → 0.05% from Apr-2026) + 0.5 pt slippage per side; spot used as a futures proxy (basis ignored); stop-first on ambiguous bars.

window	trades	win rate	avg net pts	avg gross pts	total net	max DD pts	PF
train 2022–24 (in-sample)	40	48%	+25.8	+32.6	+1031.7	+669.2	+1.7
OOS 2025–26	17	53%	+3.8	+13.2	+64.2	+410.4	+1.1

equity curve

trades.csv · Generated 2026-10-10 00:44 IST.