LTC 1H Inside Bar Breakout Long in Uptrend

Hypothesis

A minimalist long-only single-instrument strategy on LTCUSDT perpetual futures using 1-hour bars. The strategy waits for a classic inside-bar consolidation pattern (current bar's high < previous bar's high AND current bar's low > previous bar's low) and enters long on a breakout above the prior bar's high — but ONLY when the broader trend is up (price above the 100-bar EMA). LTC has been overlooked while BTC/ETH dominate flows, but it remains a top-15 liquidity pair on Binance with clean 1H structure and frequent breakout-from-compression patterns. The strategy uses ONLY OHLCV data — no funding rates, no L/S ratios, no liquidations, no pairs — to keep verification fast and deterministic. Total parameters: 4 (ema_period, take_profit_pct, stop_loss_pct, risk_per_trade_pct). No multi-timeframe, no supplementary feeds, no extra instruments. Built to be intentionally simple to avoid the verification-timeout failure mode that has plagued recent hypotheses.