Coefficient Calibration · The 1.5 → Wide Spectrum
From 1.5 to wide — what each band means.
Authority add-on per step
+0.50
5m under 30m authority
+1.00
FX ladder tiers
7
Index / Gold / Oil tiers
3
Layer 02 — The widening formula
Step difference × 0.50, and nothing else.
The authority add-on is pure arithmetic over the timeframe rank map:
- Step Difference = MAX(0, authority rank − trigger rank).
- Default Add-On = Step Difference × 0.50; a populated Custom Add-On overrides it deliberately.
- Authority-Adjusted Coefficient = base coefficient at the trigger timeframe + active add-on.
- Same-timeframe mode yields step 0 — no authority widening at all.
How MARS uses this
MARS anchors stops, break-even triggers, and distance expectations to ATR on the designated authority timeframe. The same coefficient produces wide stops in violent conditions and tight ones in quiet conditions, keeping the probability of a noise stop-out roughly constant across regimes.
How it benefits you
Fixed-pip distances stop punishing you for the market changing size. Stops survive ordinary noise, break-even moves stop converting winners into scratches, and every distance decision is defensible in volatility terms instead of round numbers and feel.
Price inside its volatility envelope. The stop is quoted in ATR, and break-even is earned at a volatility-defined distance - not felt.
Layer 03 — Ladders by asset class
FX gets seven tiers. Indices, gold, and oil get three.
The VIE's coefficient ladders are asset-aware: FX resolves across seven tiers of granularity, while Index, Gold, and Oil ladders use three broader tiers because those assets are structurally more volatile and need category-level handling rather than fine gradation. The selected symbol's asset class chooses the ladder — and the manual records a design rule with teeth: the active ladder must be driven by the selected final authority timeframe, not by a visible column header, or the model degrades into a scenario matrix instead of a selected-authority answer.
Layer 04 — Reading the bands
Zone context decides where on the spectrum to stand.
Very Low and Low zones argue for standard coefficients; High and Extreme zones argue for width — or for declining trend management entirely, because extreme volatility without clean direction is chaos, not edge. Authority confirmation matters in the same read: a 5M trigger trailing under a confirmed 1H authority justifies its added width, while the same width without authority agreement is just a bigger stop. Every choice lands in the Coefficient Audit Log — calibration is a learning loop, not a setting.
Layer 05 — Band migration
Instruments drift along the spectrum. The review catches it.
An instrument's home band is not permanent — structural volatility shifts migrate pairs along the spectrum over quarters. Calibration review tracks each instrument's realized noise against its assigned band and flags migrations early, because a pair managed with last year's coefficient is a pair paying last year's stop-out rate.
Reference
Authority add-on worked examples, from the manual
| Trigger TF | Authority TF | Step difference | Add-on | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5m | 30m | 2 | +1.00 | A 1.50 base becomes 2.50 |
| 15m | 1H | 2 | +1.00 | A 1.85 base becomes 2.85 |
| 1H | 4H | 1 | +0.50 | Wider trail, not extreme |
| 4H | Daily | 1 | +0.50 | Daily structure as authority |
| Same TF | Same TF | 0 | +0.00 | No authority widening |
In practice
Independent structures resolving to the same point. One wave is an opinion; agreement between unrelated structures is a signal.
The governing idea
Go deeper
Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
Too wide leaves a measurement. Too tight leaves a small loss that looks like bad luck.
One failure has a metric. The other looks exactly like a normal loss. Guess which direction the setting drifts.
Read the full brief →
Deep dive — 02
A pair's home band is not permanent, and a pair managed with last year's coefficient pays last year's stop-out rate.
Structural volatility is slow, not frozen. The assignment is a stored value and it does not expire by itself.
Read the full brief →
Deep dive — 03
Static versus VIE: two coefficients, one decision, no reflexive winner.
Structure says one number, live evidence says another. The conflict is the information — and wider isn't automatically safer.
Read the full brief →
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