R0824: 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 13:00 (either direction) ≤ 0.07% (≈17 pts at 25,000) AND India VIX (prior day's close) > 12.6 at 13:00

Target: price never trades back to the open after 13:00 · Decision time: 13:00 IST (uses bars up to 13:00 only) · Method: tree · Family: level / structure

0%train hit (n=60) vs base 61% · lift 0.00

15%OOS hit (n=27) vs base 67% · lift 0.22

[6%–32%]OOS Wilson 95% CI

8.3e-07OOS BH q (all) · family BH q 5.0e-07 · Holm 3.5e-05

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 6.3e-25; train BH q 5.4e-21; train Holm 5.8e-18 (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: False.

By year

year	rule days	hit	base (all days)	lift
2022	22	0%	61%	0.00
2023	7	0%	60%	0.00
2024	31	0%	61%	0.00
2025 (OOS)	16	12%	72%	0.17
2026 (OOS)	11	18%	60%	0.30

Spot-points backtest (estimated costs)

enter at 13:00 price against 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)	60	45%	-2.8	+3.7	-168.7	+455.2	+0.9
OOS 2025–26	27	44%	-8.0	+2.5	-215.8	+534.4	+0.8

equity curve

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