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Output: Research filter
Input: Account equity, volatility, stop distance and exposure
Horizon: Before entry and throughout the position
Best use: Keep a loss or exposure decision bounded before a trade is placed.

Input: Account equity, volatility, stop distance and exposure.
Output: filter.
Use boundary: Keep a loss or exposure decision bounded before a trade is placed.

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

Depends on

Often reviewed together

Rule-based entry6 readings

Read in the archive24 readings

1985A serial-dependence window from signed price transitionsStatistical tests 1989Preflight checklist, time-stops, and stand-aside rulesDecision process 1990Calendar windows for three-wave pullbacksWaves and ratios 1991Opening gap fades bounded by excursion and time stopsStops and loss limits 1991Parameter windows for averages, option overlays and time stopsEntry and exit rules 1992Evaluating maximum-adverse-excursion stop reversals with short time stopsStops and loss limits 1995Evaluating index futures OHLC reversals with RSI and time stopsEntry and exit rules 1995Three setup gates and a session-count clock complete a long bottomEntry and exit rules 1995A weekly two-close breakout and an eight-week time stopEntry and exit rules 1996Constructing closed rules for spikes, time stops and gap failuresEntry and exit rules 1998Exit rules evaluated with a fixed random entryEntry and exit rules 2000Constructing breakout entry rules and time stopsEntry and exit rules 2002Construct the stay-or-flatten decision before entryEntry and exit rules 2004Constructing action-reaction swing targets and time stopsTrend and channels 2005Constructing breakout entries with trailing and time stopsEntry and exit rules 2005Write a moving-average pullback as one procedureEntry and exit rules 2006Evaluating a restrictive range entry with a timed exitEntry and exit rules 2008Evaluating point-and-figure column breaks with time stopsChart patterns 2011Intraday gold swing with a daily entry limit, a time-stop, and a fixed stop-lossEntry and exit rules 2012Last-hour entries with a book-level loss bound and a next-open time stopEntry and exit rules 2015Precommit stop-loss, trailing-stop, and time-stop rules before entryStops and loss limits 2015Downside exhaustion gaps as a ten-session fade procedureEntry and exit rules 2018Auditing rank-rotation tests for time-stop and slot rulesSystem design 2019Confirmation-first pyramiding with price and time stopsEntry and exit rules

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