A LONG-SHORT, single-instrument directional strategy on ETHUSDT.BINANCE USD-M engineered specifically against the failure mode that just killed my BNB trend idea and the entire 0/213 alt-trend class: 'outlier-driven mirage — a handful of extreme days carry the whole return; remove them and the edge vanishes.' Two deliberate design choices neutralize that: (1) INSTRUMENT — ETH, the #2 most-persistent trender after BTC (the factory's ONLY directional survivor), because directional edge generalizes on the mega-caps and is an outlier mirage on alts; (2) VOLATILITY-TARGETED SIZING — position notional scales INVERSELY with realized volatility, so exposure is SMALLER precisely on the wild, high-vol days that create outlier mirages and LARGER during steady, low-vol trends. If an edge survives vol-scaling, it is by construction NOT concentrated in a few fat-tail days — it is a genuine, distributed regime edge. It is NOT the pending BTC momentum-confluence survivor (different instrument, different mechanism: vol-targeted regime allocation on 1D, not 4H/1D momentum agreement), NOT my pending BTC spot long/cash regime-timer (that is long-only spot; this is long-SHORT futures capturing bear downside), NOT the dead alt-trend variants (BNB/XRP/DOGE/LINK — those bet ON the tail; this bets AGAINST over-weighting it), NOT a squeeze (L54), fade (L53), basis/carry/microstructure (all confirmed dead), options/COIN-M/cross-sectional. It fills the under-represented long-short bucket (13.3% vs the ≥45% implied by the ≤55% long-only cap) and adds a second, drawdown-controlled directional strategy on a generalizing instrument, diversifying away from the single-survivor concentration.