Zero-Touch Divergence Entryresearch method
The entry layer on top of the divergence bias. While an hourly Zero-Touch Divergence bias is live, it watches the 5-minute chart for a pullback to turn, then places a stop order beyond the pullback's origin with the stop beyond the pullback's extreme and the bias's zero-touch level as the target.
How it reads a chart
- 1Take the hourly divergence bias exactly as the Zero-Touch Divergence method reports it. No bias, no action.
- 2On the 5-minute chart, wait for a pullback against the bias to form a confirmed pivot at least three bars deep.
- 3Place a stop-entry order one tick beyond the pullback's origin, with the stop one tick beyond the pullback extreme and the target at the bias's zero-touch level.
- 4Cancel the order if price takes the pullback extreme first or forty-eight bars pass unfilled; close any position when the bias ends.
What lands on the card
- Which rung it is on: no bias, a bias with no order yet, an order working, or a simulated position open.
- For an order or a position: the entry, the stop and the target, so the outcome can be graded.
- Its last few simulated trades and how each ended, in R.
Where it goes quiet
- 5-minute and 15-minute charts only, always against the hourly bias. Asking for it on the hourly chart itself is refused: that is the bias, not the entry.
- Every position it reports is the method's own paper trade at real spreads, so its record can be kept. None of it is an instruction.
- Most of the time there is no hourly bias and therefore nothing for this method to do.
What the testing found
This method is published together with its own failures, and there are more of them than for any other method here. Ten pre-registered variants were run on five years of tick data at real spreads: the pullback stop, the hourly-extreme stop, a fixed three-to-one target, an arm-triggered bias, a scale-out, an opposite-triangle exit, a divergence exit, no take-profit at all, and a four-hour bias. Every one fell short of the criteria committed before it ran. One pair passed one variant on its own, which under pre-registration is not a pass. It is published anyway, tracked like every other method, because a record that only shows what worked is not a record.
Tracked outcomes
No outcomes tracked for this method yet. Every read it publishes is graded to a win, a loss or an expiry, and appears here once the first ones resolve.
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