R0661: PASS

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) ≥ 0.30% (≈74 pts at 25,000) AND size of the opening gap ≤ 0.22% (≈55 pts at 25,000) AND 1-min EMA9 − EMA21 (as % of price) ≤ -0.00% (≈-1 pts at 25,000) at 11:00

Target: the day closes more than 50 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

94%train hit (n=36) vs base 54% · lift 1.74

80%OOS hit (n=46) vs base 59% · lift 1.36

[67%–89%]OOS Wilson 95% CI

0.007OOS BH q (all) · family BH q 0.004 · Holm 1.000

0.002OOS 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 2.9e-07; train BH q 3.0e-05; train Holm 1.000 (corrections over all 9,242,869 hypotheses); whole-pipeline shuffled-label placebo family-wise p 0.129 (100 permutations). Extra conditions beat the best single condition OOS: True.

By year

year	rule days	hit	base (all days)	lift
2022	11	91%	61%	1.49
2023	13	100%	45%	2.21
2024	12	92%	57%	1.61
2025 (OOS)	26	88%	64%	1.39
2026 (OOS)	20	70%	53%	1.31

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)	36	67%	+37.8	+44.0	+1362.0	+215.6	+2.9
OOS 2025–26	46	41%	-4.1	+5.8	-190.1	+582.1	+0.9

equity curve

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