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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

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