MODEL ADOPTION #423: REJECT — VIDEO SCOUT: Best Order Block Trading Strategy You Can Find! — E8 Intelligence Research

Abstract

DECISION: REJECT ELEMENT: Nothing survives. The strategy's core — break of structure + order block retest — is a lagging, binary pattern that depends on subjective block identification. Your own bench data shows 8.1% win rate on 5m (-18.3R) and only 11.8% on 15m (+31.9R). That 15m result is fragile: 697 trades over a single pair (EURUSD) with 88% loss rate means the edge is thin, likely curve-fitted to that pair's recent structure. The 5m and h1 results are negative or near-zero. No single rule from this method can be extracted cleanly — the "order block" concept is not a discrete, codable level like E8 geometry; it's a visual heuristic that fails in ranging markets. Adding it would inject noise, not signal. EXPECTED IMPACT: Win rate would drop (already 11.8% raw; E8 filter might lift to ~15-18% but at cost of fewer trades). Profit impact negligible or negative because the strategy's false breakout rate (88%) would overwhelm any E8 timing benefit. The +31.9R on 15m EURUSD is not repl Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com