A LONG-SHORT, single-instrument, short-horizon MICROSTRUCTURE MOMENTUM strategy on SOLUSDT.BINANCE (USD-M perp) that abandons the carry family entirely and instead trades order-flow IMPULSE CONTINUATION off the trade-tick feed. Core non-price dependency: the TRADE ARRIVAL RATE (trades/second and aggregate taker volume) from the multi-year aggTrades/trade-tick feed — NOT OHLCV bars and NOT funding/OI. Mechanism: crypto perps exhibit self-exciting order flow — when aggressive market-order arrivals spike far above their recent baseline (a liquidation cascade, a news-driven sweep, or a stop-run), the resulting price impulse tends to CONTINUE for a short window as the burst propagates and momentum traders pile in, before liquidity refills. The strategy detects a burst (trade-arrival-rate z-score over baseline) that is directionally one-sided (taker-buy-dominant or taker-sell-dominant) and enters IN THE DIRECTION of the burst, holding for a short, hard-time-boxed continuation window. This is deliberately the OPPOSITE sign of the three intraday-REVERSION ideas already queued this session (taker-flow exhaustion fade, perp-index basis fade, ETH/BTC ratio fade) — those fade extremes; this rides fresh impulses — so it diversifies the book's mechanism exposure. It is NOT a bar-breakout (the trigger is the flow-intensity burst, not a price level, so it sidesteps the OHLCV-breakout graveyard L30), NOT liquidation-feed-dependent (uses trade-intensity as the burst proxy, dodging the ~90-day liquidations-feed wall), and NOT a cross-sectional ranker (single instrument, no ranking key to mis-implement). Fills three under-represented buckets: short horizon (8.1% vs >=10% target), long-short direction (14.4%), and a genuine trade-tick microstructure mechanism the bar-heavy portfolio lacks. 3 parameters (burst z-threshold, directional-imbalance threshold, hold/time-stop length) to fight overfit. Fee viability: entries are gated to STRONG bursts (arrival-rate z >= 3) whose historical continuation over the hold window exceeds ~0.30% — clearing the ~0.10% USD-M round trip ~3x — and the burst gate throttles frequency to a handful of trades/day, not the hundreds that would bleed fees.