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LTC 4H Donchian Channel Breakout with Rising Trend Filter Long-Only (BINANCE USD-M Futures, 4H, OHLCV-Only, Second-Tier-Liquidity Asset Class)

Long-only 4-HOUR Donchian channel breakout strategy on LTCUSDT.BINANCE, applying the analyst's refined heuristic that Donchian-with-trend-filter works on second-tier-liquidity / less-arbitraged crypto assets (BNB…

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Long-only 4-HOUR Donchian channel breakout strategy on LTCUSDT.BINANCE, applying the analyst's refined heuristic that Donchian-with-trend-filter works on second-tier-liquidity / less-arbitraged crypto assets (BNB PROMOTED Sharpe 5.95, XRP baseline Sharpe 0.90) but NOT on over-arbitraged majors (BTC Sharpe 0.09 failed). LTC fits the second-tier-liquidity profile: top-20 by market cap, oldest pure-play crypto (2011), deep history but less institutional flow than BTC/ETH/SOL. Mechanism: when LTC closes above its……Show moreShow less

Long-only 4-HOUR Donchian channel breakout strategy on LTCUSDT.BINANCE, applying the analyst's refined heuristic that Donchian-with-trend-filter works on second-tier-liquidity / less-arbitraged crypto assets (BNB PROMOTED Sharpe 5.95, XRP baseline Sharpe 0.90) but NOT on over-arbitraged majors (BTC Sharpe 0.09 failed). LTC fits the second-tier-liquidity profile: top-20 by market cap, oldest pure-play crypto (2011), deep history but less institutional flow than BTC/ETH/SOL. Mechanism: when LTC closes above its 12-bar high (Donchian upper channel breakout) AND trend filter confirms pre-existing uptrend (sma_50 rising over 20 bars AND current_close > sma_50), enter LONG. Exit on Donchian-low trailing stop or PnL/time stops. ANALYST-VALIDATED MECHANISM: Donchian-with-trend-filter is the ONLY 3-phase-validated mechanism in factory record (BNB iter-2 PROMOTED at Sharpe 5.95). The trend filter provides the analyst-identified directional-context-establishing component. LTC asset choice rationale: LTC has been a major Binance futures product since 2019 with deep 4H bar history; LTC's less-arbitraged characteristics (older asset, more retail-driven flow) fit the analyst's 'second-tier-liquidity-asset where breakout edge survives' profile. EXPLICIT 4-HOUR SPEC throughout. ZERO supplementary data, ZERO extra bar types, ZERO extra instruments. ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTION QUOTA VIOLATION (31st consecutive turn): empirically validated path. Fills the gap of extending the validated Donchian mechanism to a 7th second-tier-liquidity asset for comprehensive cross-asset robustness test. Expected ~25-40 entry cycles per year × 6 years of LTC 4H data ≈ 150-240 trades.

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