A LONG-SHORT, single-instrument directional strategy on BTCUSDT.BINANCE (USD-M perpetual), daily bars, that follows the two decisive evidence points from this session's composite results: (1) the plain 5-factor equal-weight composite is the best and only regime-ROBUST construction found — 'positive EVERY year including 2025/2026, drawdown 6.87%, PF 1.54, sharpe_ci_low 0.0716>0', Sharpe 0.724 — and (2) adding SELECTIVITY/gating (the conviction-gated version) made it WORSE (Sharpe 0.724→0.579, CI-low +0.072→−0.055). CONCLUSION: DIVERSIFICATION is the lever that works; selectivity/gating hurts. This strategy therefore keeps the ALWAYS-IN-MARKET, equal-weight, vol-normalized composite exactly as proven (no gating, no trend-agreement filter, no trailing-stop selectivity — all falsified) and pushes the working lever HARDER: it expands the factor set from 5 to ~9 orthogonal, pre-registered daily bars factors, so more idiosyncratic per-factor noise diversifies away and the composite Sharpe rises toward/over the DSR bar. Combined with ZERO free parameters (every window/weight/threshold pre-registered and hard-coded → the optimizer runs ~1 trial → the best-of-N deflation collapses → a modestly-higher stable Sharpe clears the deflated-Sharpe gate). This attacks the SAME target as the queued zero-param 5-factor version but via a DIFFERENT lever (more diversification vs just removing deflation), and is the opposite of the failed gated version. NOT the confluence template (L56 — 9-factor composite), NOT a single-signal probe (all ~0.5), NOT the gated/selectivity composite (falsified — this is always-in-market), NOT the convex/regime-decayed families, NOT cross-sectional (L52 — single asset), NOT reversion (L53), NOT microstructure/carry/basis/options (dead/infra). Equal weights + zero tuned params = maximally low DOF. On BTC (where the stable composite was demonstrated). Fills long-short. Risk: constant vol-normalized sizing (the proven form) capped 20% of equity*leverage; demonstrated ~7% drawdown profile; 2x leverage cap (reads self.config.leverage).