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Operator brief · 110

Three strategies, three indicator dependencies.

The key idea

Strategy one

The Sniper Pro — a reversal play built on extremes.

The Sniper Pro looks for extreme price movement before a reversal, using Bollinger Bands and a custom RSI/MFI indicator to identify the extreme, enhanced Fibonacci bands for structure, and a 55 EMA cross as the entry trigger. Its alignment requirement is timeframe-dependent: trading the 5- and 15-minute charts demands the 9, 21, 55, and 233 EMAs aligned across four timeframes, while on the 1-, 2-, and 4-hour charts only the trigger timeframe needs alignment. It works best in markets with prominent price swings during the New York session — indices and FX majors. Notably, it's the strategy least dependent on the trend tools, because it's the one play that isn't a continuation trade.

Strategies two and three

The continuation plays — where the trend tools earn their place.

The 71 Trade is a consolidation play: price breaks above or below a consolidation to a new high or low, then pulls back 71% for entry. It verifies higher timeframes are trending and uses the Trend Continuation Indicator on both the trigger chart and the HTF to confirm direction, with the Fibonacci retracement tool marking the entry level. The three-stage pattern breakout looks for a break from a trend retracement where two higher or lower pivot points have formed, using stochastics to identify them — and it uses the EW Convergence Indicator to verify the trend will continue in the desired direction, alongside the Trend Continuation tool. Both are continuation trades, and both depend on tools that answer 'is this trend real and continuing?'

FigureStrategy-to-indicator dependency map
strategyTypePrimary toolsATR BE Assistant
Sniper ProReversalBollinger · RSI/MFI · Fib bands · 55 EMARequired
The 71 TradeContinuationTrend Continuation (trigger + HTF) · Fib retracementRequired
3-stage breakoutContinuationEW Convergence · Trend Continuation · stochasticsRequired

The trend tools serve the two continuation strategies; the reversal play uses its own instruments. All three route through the ATR BE Assistant for risk structure.

The common dependency

All three use the ATR BE Assistant, and the reason is structural.

The plan notes it as a flat rule: all three strategies use the ATR BE Assistant to verify risk management structure. This makes sense once the tool's actual job is clear — it isn't a setup finder, it's the regime switch that determines which management doctrine applies. Every trade, regardless of which strategy produced it, has to answer whether it's operating under Normal rules (breakeven at 1.4R, static 2R) or Trend rules (breakeven at 1.6R, trail logic), and that answer comes from the same place every time. Strategy determines what you take; the regime switch determines how it's managed. The universality is the point.

What this reveals about branches

Strategy and branch are related but not identical.

A useful subtlety: the three strategies aren't the four branches. Strategy describes how a setup was found — reversal, consolidation breakout, retracement break. Branch describes how the trade will be monetized — Normal's static structure, the trend family's trail architectures, Overflow's short close. A continuation strategy will usually produce a trend-branch trade, but the mapping isn't mechanical: the regime read at entry, not the strategy that found the setup, determines the branch. This is exactly why regime forcing is prohibited — an operator who assumes 'the 71 Trade is a trend strategy, therefore this is a trend branch' has skipped the read that's supposed to make the determination.

  • Strategy = how the setup was found. Branch = how the trade will be managed. The regime read connects them.
  • The reversal strategy can legitimately produce Normal-branch trades; nothing about its name forces a trend structure.
  • Journal both: strategy context belongs in notes, branch belongs in the branch field — the analytics slice on the latter.

The key idea

The bundle is three tools because the plan runs three plays.

The indicator trio isn't a collection of general-purpose analytics — it's the specific toolset three specific strategies require, built to the plan's own definitions of alignment, continuation, and regime. That's why they're bundled rather than sold separately, and why the operator manual for each reads like an extension of the trading plan rather than a standalone product. The tools and the plan were designed against each other.

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Every brief documents the same shipped system.

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