A long-short mean-reversion strategy that fades the price OVERSHOOT created by panic/forced flow, detected via VOLUME CLIMAX on 4-hour bars across ~6 liquid Binance USD-M perps (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, DOGE). It is the same mechanically-sound 'forced-flow exhaustion reversal' the analyst flagged as worth revisiting (the abandoned liquidation-cascade idea) — but it signals the exhaustion with raw OHLCV VOLUME (a fully-backtestable proxy for the liquidation cascade) instead of the liquidations feed, which has no historical coverage. When a single asset prints a high-volume capitulation DOWN bar (volume spike + large negative return = panic/forced selling that overshoots fair value), the strategy buys the snapback; on a high-volume blow-off UP bar, it shorts. This is explicitly NOT the refuted basis/ratio mean-reversion (which fades a tight or non-stationary SPREAD and is fee-dominated/drift-dominant) — it fades a large directional PRICE overshoot, and the volume-climax gate is the 'specific microstructure twist' the factory mandate requires for MR to survive crypto noise. It is also the opposite sign to the existing volume-SURGE-continuation longs (which buy breakouts on volume; this fades the climax). It runs only on Binance USD-M OHLCV — the one reliably-backtestable surface — avoiding every infrastructure block hit this session (liquidations live-WS-only, Deribit/COIN-M/Hyperliquid/funding data paths). Long-short improves the 87%-long skew; the large-move requirement is the fee-domination defense; few parameters resist overfitting.