Trend Continuation · The Four-Engine Stack
How MARS uses this
MARS treats confluence as evidence quality: when independent structures - wave counts, higher-timeframe levels, volatility posture - converge on the same zone, the setup earns a higher evidence grade and access to fuller deployment. Isolated signals remain tradeable but are sized as the weaker evidence they are.
How it benefits you
Setup quality becomes a graded input instead of a binary feeling. Your best-evidenced trades systematically carry more of the risk budget, marginal trades stop consuming full-size authority, and 'A+ setup' finally has a definition that survives review.
Independent structures resolving to the same point. One wave is an opinion; agreement between unrelated structures is a signal.
The stack
Each engine answers differently: Ichimoku reads structural position, MACD reads momentum state, RSI-MFI reads participation and flow, ADX reads trend strength. Continuation confidence rises when independent reads agree — exactly the evidence Trend Partial trailing and Trend No-Partial patience require.
Where it lives
This page expands one card of the Trend Continuation page into its own reference. For orientation, the module's own framing: The Trend Continuation Indicator stacks Ichimoku structure, MACD momentum, RSI-MFI flow, and ADX strength into a single continuation read — the on-chart companion to the trend branches' fat-tail doctrine.
Failure independence
The stack's engines were selected less for individual accuracy than for uncorrelated blind spots: the conditions that fool one leave the others unimpressed. Stacking four engines that fail the same way would produce confident nonsense; stacking four that fail differently produces a veto system — which is the entire point.
Reference
Each closed trade logs its worst adverse excursion and best favorable excursion. The lab plots them into quadrants and pairs the picture with capture efficiency, giveback, and fee drag - then the EV Driver Diagnostics rank which repair (entry location, coefficient, trail logic, cost avoidance) would move net expectancy most.
Every trade plotted by pain taken (MAE) versus opportunity generated (MFE). The four quadrants diagnose entry precision and exit management at a glance.
Doctrine
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
Four engines answer whether. Two more answer how strongly. The score carries all six equally.
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Deep dive — 02
Strong and fading fails. Moderate and building passes. The stack is reading the derivative.
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Deep dive — 03
Structure, acceleration, participation — three questions about one trend, with settings chosen for robustness over fit.
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