What you can validate
Edge families we validate
10 edge groups, 14 strategy families, and 280 concrete example backtests. Price behavior comes first, followed by order flow, news/NLP, relative value, fundamentals, insider disclosures, macro regimes, congressional disclosures, events, and alternative data.
- Price behavior
- Order flow & microstructure
- News sentiment & NLP
- Relative value & stat-arb
- Fundamental & factor
- Insider trading
- Macro & regime
- Congressional trading
- Event-driven catalysts
- Alternative data
01
Price behavior
Trend, reversal, breakout, gap, and swing behavior.
5 strategy families · 100 examples
Trend following & time-series momentum
Persistence and directional drift across liquid markets.
- Futures
- Cross-asset
Mean reversion
Fading overextended moves back toward a statistical anchor.
- Futures
- US equities
Breakout & opening range
Entries on confirmed expansion out of consolidation.
- Futures
- US equities
Gap trading
Continuation and fade setups around price gaps.
- US equities
- Futures
Swing & multi-day
Positions held across several sessions with defined risk.
- US equities
- Futures
02
Order flow & microstructure
Order-book imbalance, cumulative delta, liquidity, and tape structure.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
03
News sentiment & NLP
Headlines, press releases, event tags, and FinBERT sentiment scoring.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
04
Relative value & stat-arb
Pairs, spreads, market-neutral residuals, and cointegration logic.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
05
Fundamental & factor
Quality, value, ownership, revisions, and cross-sectional ranking logic.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
06
Insider trading
Public Form 4 transactions, insider clusters, ownership changes, and disclosure-aware signals.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
07
Macro & regime
Top-down signals, macro states, regime filters, and allocation overlays.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
08
Congressional trading
Public congressional disclosures, filing lags, committee context, and politician portfolio flows.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
09
Event-driven catalysts
Earnings, announcements, macro releases, and scheduled catalyst drift.
1 strategy family · 20 examples
10
Alternative data
Positioning, attention, prediction-market, and other non-traditional external signals.
1 strategy family · 20 examples