A LONG-SHORT, single-instrument, pure-price MOMENTUM-CONFLUENCE trend follower on DOTUSDT.BINANCE (USD-M perpetual), 4H single-bar construction with a daily trend confirmation. This is a targeted, EVIDENCE-DRIVEN asset selection, not a blind re-skin — and the evidence is fresh and decisive. The session's most important result is the ADA dual-TF confluence NEAR-MISS: it 'emphatically cleared significance' (deflated_sharpe 1.0 vs expected-max 0.56, optimized Sharpe 1.75, positive sharpe_ci_low) — the ONLY dual-TF candidate besides BTC to do so. That splits the confluence family cleanly: it FAILS on choppy/fat-tailed names (SOL 0.79, AVAX 0.34, XRP/DOGE/LTC no-edge) but CLEARS on smooth, clean-trending large-cap L1s (BTC survivor Sharpe 1.99; ADA Sharpe 1.75). DOT is the nearest untested asset in the ADA class: a large-cap L1 with deep Binance USD-M liquidity, ~5y history, and clean multi-week directional legs (the 2021 run, the 2022–2024 secular downtrend, 2024–2025 swings) rather than memecoin fat tails or laggard chop. It applies the exact mechanism validated on BTC and ADA. NOT a mean-reversion fade (L53), NOT a squeeze breakout (L54), NOT a channel breakout (outlier class), NOT a cross-sectional basket (L52), NOT calendar/session (both falsified net-losing this session), NOT a NON-PRICE-feed gate (L46), NOT options/COIN-M (L50/L51). Fills the long-short gap (13.5% vs 86% long-only). To match the significance-clearing ADA construction and resist overfit: single 4H bar type, 3 params, fixed fast-EMA, volatility-scaled sizing (which was part of the ADA winner). Risk profile: ~1.5% equity risk/trade via ATR stop; vol-scaled notional = risk_budget / (atr_mult * ATR_4H) capped at 25% of equity*leverage; 2x leverage cap (reads self.config.leverage). Exactly 3 tunable parameters (slow/fast EMA ratio, daily-trend EMA length, ATR trailing multiple).