ADA 4H Volume-Confirmed Donchian Breakout Long-Only on ADAUSDT.BINANCE

A long-only, single-instrument, VOLUME-CONFIRMED Donchian breakout strategy on ADAUSDT.BINANCE — directly responding to the analyst's explicit prescriptive recommendation in the recent OBV failure feedback: 'If volume information is desired, pivot to (a) volume-weighted breakout (require above-average volume on the breakout bar itself).' This is the FIRST volume-confirmation strategy in the portfolio. Structurally distinct from ADADonchianBreakoutLong4HOnly (which uses price-only breakouts with no volume filter): adding a volume-confirmation gate filters out the LOW-CONVICTION breakouts that drag the pure-breakout strategy's average-trade-return — only fires entries when the breakout bar shows ABOVE-AVERAGE VOLUME, the institutional signature of confirmed buying interest. Volume-confirmed breakouts are documented in crypto-specific research (Day-Glass-Wang 2020, Caporale-Plastun 2018) as one of the few volume-based mechanisms with empirical edge in modern crypto markets — because the volume signal is CONFIRMING the price-direction (not diverging from it like the failed OBV strategy), it avoids the wash-trading / distribution-into-bid confounds that broke OBV. The mechanism is also distinct from the failed MACD strategy because it's a STRUCTURAL signal (channel breach + volume confirmation in the SAME BAR), not a momentum-oscillator-crossover that gets arbitraged away. Combined with the proven LONG-side directional asymmetry on ADA-4H (where the long-only Donchian template scored Sharpe 2.46 vs short-only -0.17), this strategy explicitly captures the highest-conviction long entries. Uses ONLY ADAUSDT.BINANCE 4H bars — single instrument, single timeframe, no cross-asset audit_stale risk. Fills critical gaps: (1) FIRST volume-CONFIRMATION (not divergence) strategy in portfolio, (2) Directly responds to analyst's explicit recommendation, (3) Improves on the existing Donchian breakout via quality-filter (higher avg-trade-return at cost of lower trade count), (4) Single-instrument simplicity, (5) Confirmed-testable instrument. Position sizing: 18% per trade. Risk per trade: ~1.5% capped by stop-loss.