R0923: 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 14:30 (either direction) ≤ 0.07% (≈16 pts at 25,000) AND price vs prior-day low > -0.06% (≈-15 pts at 25,000) AND position in today's range so far (0 = at low, 1 = at high) ≤ 0.903 at 14:30

Target: the day closes more than 50 pts beyond the open in the direction of the move so far · Decision time: 14:30 IST (uses bars up to 14:30 only) · Method: rulefit · Family: level / structure

6%train hit (n=67) vs base 65% · lift 0.09

22%OOS hit (n=37) vs base 72% · lift 0.30

[11%–37%]OOS Wilson 95% CI

1.3e-08OOS BH q (all) · family BH q 7.8e-09 · Holm 2.8e-07

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 3.4e-24; train BH q 2.5e-20; train Holm 3.1e-17 (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	17	12%	71%	0.17
2023	26	0%	57%	0.00
2024	24	8%	68%	0.12
2025 (OOS)	20	20%	75%	0.27
2026 (OOS)	17	24%	69%	0.34

Spot-points backtest (estimated costs)

enter at 14:30 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)	67	54%	+9.4	+15.5	+629.8	+161.5	+1.7
OOS 2025–26	37	41%	-9.1	+1.5	-336.2	+501.4	+0.7

equity curve

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