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MES Structure Break Strategy with Trend, Momentum, and Volume Filters

Article Strategy library · Author: lylerh

Summary

The visible portion describes an intraday strategy for MES futures that combines pivot-based market structure with a higher-timeframe exponential moving average, RSI, and volume. It defines morning and afternoon trading windows in Eastern Time, resets a trade counter when each window begins, and limits the number of trades per window. The shown inputs include a 15-minute higher timeframe, a 21-period EMA, pivot lookback, RSI and volume settings, a reward-to-risk setting, and a stop buffer beyond a pivot.

The supplied source ends partway through the structure-break condition, so the exact entry rules, filter combinations, exits, and remaining strategy behavior cannot be confirmed. Although the page includes a strategy-report heading, it provides no performance figures in the available text. Any assessment of profitability or robustness would require the complete rules and testing details, including transaction costs and market conditions.

Key ideas

  • The strategy is designed for MES and restricts entries to configurable morning and afternoon sessions.
  • A higher-timeframe EMA supplies a directional bias, while pivots define market structure.
  • The visible inputs also specify RSI and volume filters, stop buffering, reward-to-risk, and a per-window trade cap.
  • The source is truncated before its entry and exit logic can be examined, and no performance results are shown.

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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.