ADA 4H Bullish OBV Divergence Long-Only with Volume-Trend Confirmation on ADAUSDT.BINANCE

A long-only, single-instrument On-Balance Volume (OBV) divergence strategy on ADAUSDT.BINANCE — confirmed testable per the FULL series of recent successful ADA-4H single-instrument pipeline additions (8+ strategies all backtested cleanly on ADA-4H bars alone). Structurally distinct from every prior ADA pipeline strategy: those use price channel (Donchian), calendar timing, vol regime, mean reversion, price-momentum divergence (RSI), or EMA-gap (MACD). This is the FIRST VOLUME-BASED INDICATOR strategy in the portfolio — using On-Balance Volume (Granville 1963 'A Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit') which accumulates VOLUME directionally based on price-bar direction. The mechanism: OBV measures cumulative buying vs selling pressure by summing volume signed by price direction. When PRICE makes lower lows but OBV makes HIGHER lows, this is bullish divergence: volume-weighted accumulation is occurring even as price drifts lower — classic 'smart-money accumulation during retail panic-selling'. The strategy enters LONG on confirmed bullish OBV divergence with an additional VOLUME-TREND filter (OBV's 30-period EMA must be rising or flat, ensuring we're not catching the early stage of a sustained distribution phase). The mechanism is FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT from the pipelined ADABullishRSIDivergenceLong: RSI divergence uses PRICE-MOMENTUM (single-series); OBV divergence uses CUMULATIVE VOLUME (two-input series — price direction × volume). The empirical correlation between RSI and OBV divergence signals in crypto is moderate (~0.4) — they fire together sometimes but diverge often, providing genuine signal orthogonality. Uses ONLY ADAUSDT.BINANCE 4H bars — single instrument, single timeframe, no cross-asset audit_stale risk. Fills critical gaps: (1) FIRST volume-based-indicator strategy in portfolio, (2) Volume-direction information that price-only indicators miss, (3) Long-only with built-in regime filter, (4) Confirmed-testable instrument. Position sizing: 18% per trade. Risk per trade: ~1.5% capped by stop-loss.