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Output: Signal
Input: Rule inputs, market state and execution constraints
Horizon: The system holding period
Best use: Make entry, exit and abstention rules testable as one procedure.

Input: Rule inputs, market state and execution constraints.
Output: signal.
Use boundary: Make entry, exit and abstention rules testable as one procedure.

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How the method is built, and where it has been read

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Often reviewed together

Intermarket analysis4 readings

Often reviewed together

Calendar spread trading7 readings

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Seasonal trading10 readings

Read in the archive24 of 26 readings

1982Constructing commodity spreads, calendar legs, and option strapsIntermarket and spreads 1987Seasonal commodity spreads as portfolio slotsIntermarket and spreads 1987Underwriting a seasonal livestock calendar spreadIntermarket and spreads 1987Calendar gates for outright seasonal portfoliosSeasonality and regimes 1988Relative strength spreads against a commodity indexIntermarket and spreads 1989Evaluating mechanical seasonal date rules for commodity spreadsIntermarket and spreads 1989Seasonal dates, confirmation, and reconstructed spread barsIntermarket and spreads 1989Constructing currency-translated commodity OHLC barsIntermarket and spreads 1991Calendar-spread divergence as a demand clock for commodity reversalsIntermarket and spreads 1991Regime gates for intermarket and spread tradesIntermarket and spreads 1993Write the soybean intercrop calendar as one procedureIntermarket and spreads 1996A commodity-basket redesign read as a proxy and a calendar-spreadIntermarket and spreads 1997A decision-logic filter for the July-November soybean spreadIntermarket and spreads 1997Seasonal wheat and corn spread windowsIntermarket and spreads 1997Seasonal filters for corn-wheat spread breakoutsIntermarket and spreads 1998Seasonal stock-index windows beyond the January effectSeasonality and regimes 1998Be rich or be right: when only a written checklist counts as a systemDecision process 1999Same-maturity quality sleeves from a credit tunnelIntermarket and spreads 2002Intraday sector pairs hedged as one spreadIntermarket and spreads 2003Livestock calendar spreads during a commodity-index rollIntermarket and spreads 2006Seasonal regimes versus one-off news in commodity and rate spreadsSeasonality and regimes 2006Calendar spreads as an unknown-fundamentals regime filterIntermarket and spreads 2007Construct futures size from the good-faith deposit and the spreadSizing and leverage 2008Placing early 2008 grain futures on a historical range mapIntermarket and spreads

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