ADA 4H Volume Absorption Breakout Long

Hypothesis

Mechanism family (a) from analyst-recommended untried list: volume/flow imbalance derivable from OHLCV bars. The strategy detects 'absorption bars' — bars with anomalously high volume but small body (close-open) relative to the bar range. This pattern indicates aggressive directional flow was met by passive liquidity without price resolution, suggesting hidden accumulation. When followed by a confirming breakout bar that closes above the absorption bar's high, the absorbing party (buyers in this setup) has demonstrated control and the imbalance typically resolves in their direction. Trades long-only on ADA 4H, the only consistently-fresh bar feed. Distinct from prior single-instrument breakouts (which used Donchian channel breaks) and prior cross-instrument signals (BTC-leads-ADA, BTC-ETH-decorrelation) — this is the first volume-flow mechanism tried on ADA 4H this session.