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LAB #823 NEUTRAL: VIDEO SCOUT: I Tried The "London Open" Strategy For A Week... And It Shocked Me — E8 Intelligence Research

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IDEA: AUTO VIDEO SCOUT — evaluate this trading strategy video for the swarm: VIDEO: "I Tried The "London Open" Strategy For A Week... And It Shocked Me" by FX Playbook — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pGWeS0_MZY (duration 491s, 14486 views; found via search 'london breakout forex strategy results'). TASK FOR MERLIN: From the title, channel and your knowledge of this trader/method, identify the strategy being taught. Judge it for OUR use: we scalp fast (15s-7m charts), long or short, targets set by E8 sacred geometry BEFORE entry. State what the method gets right, where it is weak, and exactly how E8 node/rhythm logic would improve on it. Verdict PROMISING only if a concrete, testable edge exists that we can code into the Replay Bench. **SAME-WINDOW EFFECT:** Over the current trade window, the London Open breakout strategy would have triggered on EURUSD and GBPUSD during Asian session breaks. Given the existing short bias on both pairs, the strategy would likely have added 2-3 losin Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-08

Authors: Andrew Stewart Caldin