The shelf · Opening-range retest · Crude Oil WTI
Does opening-range retest work on CL? Eighteen years, tested
The rule as it ran
Break of the opening range, pullback to the broken edge, first close back beyond it; follow or fade. Run on CL, the Crude Oil WTI.
range_start 930; range_min 15; last_entry 1130; exit 1530; min_range 0.0; mode follow; sides Both
One trade a day, the first signal in the window, on one-minute bars, with one tick of slippage each way and commission. Trades dated 2023 or later are the seen era; the years before decide the verdict. Tested September 15, 2026, under SHELF-01.
Nothing in this record points at one thing to do differently by eye; the rule as written is what it is.
That is what the record says about the rule as written. It is not what next year says.



The engine's report, in full
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THINRIDGE ENGINE REPORT - SCORED UNDER PROTOCOL v1.1
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SCOPE: Scored under Protocol v1.1 on FirstRate 1-min unadjusted via Thinridge engine. Intake testimony: NOT received (rule tested as locked). Contamination map sworn: no (seen era as declared or by archive date). Human review of reconciliation residue: NO.
1. THE RULE AS LOCKED
family : S - Opening-range retest
as you locked it:
Opening-range retest, at the settings the door shows before anyone touches them (SHELF-01 v1.1): range_start 930; range_min 15; last_entry 1130; exit 1530; min_range 0.0; mode follow; sides Both
seen era from 2023, the split the six teardowns were scored on
as the engine read it:
exit model : time only
filter : none
lineage : #1
bars : one-minute (every signal, fill and exit is on the one-minute series)
entries : one trade a day, the first qualifying signal in the window
history : 18.6 years, seen era = 2023 onward (declared by submitter, not sworn)
: trades dated 2023 or later are the seen era; trades before 2023 are the unseen era, and the unseen era decides the verdict
2. VERDICT
SCORE : 11 / 100
VERDICT : REJECTED
CRATERS : pillar(s) below 50%: II, III, IV, V, VI
Pillars : I=5 II=0 III=0 IV=4 V=0 VI=2
3. RESULT
Trades 4004 Net -$45,966.80 Per trade -$11.48
Seen era (2023+): 769 trades, -$23,939.80
Unseen era : 3235 trades, -$22,027.00
Win rate 49.3% (1974 of 4004 trades closed above zero after costs)
Exits by type: time 4004
4. THE NULL (random-side twins, 5000 seeds)
Full window p = 0.2364 (1182 / 5000)
Unseen era p = 0.1760 (880 / 5000) <- governs
Lineage-adjusted p (variant #1) = 0.1760
5. ERA CONSISTENCY (unseen calendar years as windows)
Years 15 profitable 5 WF efficiency (PF unseen/seen) 1.07
By year (unseen): 2008 $9,816.60 2009 -$808.80 2010 -$4,180.40 2011 $5,545.40 2012 -$6,943.60 2013 -$4,885.20 2014 $22,628.00 2015 -$11,897.20 2016 -$23,016.20 2017 -$3,373.40 2018 -$4,032.60 2019 $8,357.60 2020 $6,853.40 2021 -$11,729.80 2022 -$4,360.80
6. COST STRESS (re-simulated)
1 tick -$45,966.80 2 ticks -$126,046.80 3 ticks -$206,126.80
Net/gross at 1 tick -90.3% PF at 2x friction 0.91 Breakeven 0.0 ticks/side
7. FRAGILITY (bootstrap x5000)
Full CI -$186,416.80 .. $93,303.20 P(net>0) 0.2568
Unseen CI -$145,527.00 .. $101,273.00 P(net>0) 0.3532
DD95/actual 1.53x Top trade n/a Top-5 n/a
8. SENSITIVITY (+-10% on primary trigger)
Plateau retention 0% Sign flip YES Parameters 5
9. LIVABILITY (no points; could a person have held this?)
Longest stretch without a new equity high: 139 months (ending 2026-08)
Rolling 12-month windows negative: 64% of 213 Worst 12 months: -$38,343.00 (ending 2023-05)
Max drawdown $89,920.60 Median year -$4,032.60 Years of median to recoup the drawdown: n/a (median year not positive)
10. CODE OFFER
[ ] validated
[ ] unseen_p_adj_le_0.05
[ ] unseen_ci_excludes_zero
[ ] breakeven_ge_4_ticks
[ ] top_trade_le_25pct
=> not offered at this result.
11. SCORING LINES
II: Sharpe retention 0.0 (per-trade) -> 0; absolute OOS -> 0
III: windows profitable 0.33 -> 0; efficiency 1.07 -> 0; window concentration -> 0
IV: null p 0.176 (5000 seeds) -> 2; DD95/BT 1.53 -> 2; top trade n/a -> 0
V: retention@1x -0.903 -> 0; PF@2x 0.91 -> 0
VI: plateau 0.0 -> 0; parsimony 5 -> 2; sign flip True -> 0
12. THE AUTOPSY (where the money came from and went; the rule as it ran, no new try)
Exits: time 4004, -$45,966.80
On the books, unseen era (net -$22,027.00): 10:00 -$27,589.60 11:00 -$32,199.80 12:00 -$29,666.00 13:00 -$22,227.00 14:00 -$9,726.00 15:00 $2,944.00
Eras: unseen -$22,027.00, seen -$23,939.80; largest unseen year 2014 = n/a of the unseen net
Plateau: 0% retained on a 10% nudge; sign flip yes
Drought: 139 months without a new high (ending 2026-08); median year -$4,032.60; years of median to recoup n/a
The numbers are a spike: a 10% nudge either way keeps 0% of the result. Longest wait for a new equity high: 139 months, median year -$4,032.60.
The one next run, if you want it: the neighboring setting of the primary trigger (10% either way), as lineage #2. Prediction on file: a plateau under 25% means the neighbor rejects too; this run is to show it. Three such runs at most, then the verdict stands.
13. IF YOU TRADE THIS BY EYE
Nothing in this record points at one thing to do differently by eye; the rule as written is what it is.
That is what the record says about the rule as written. It is not what next year says.
WHAT THIS CANNOT TELL YOU: the score assumes this rule walked in
once (see lineage) and that your development did not touch the
unseen era. Neither was sworn. A Thinridge audit exists to take
that testimony. Not investment advice. No guarantee of future
results. Statistical analysis of a mechanical rule as submitted.
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Raw market data: FirstRate Data (firstratedata.com). Statistical analysis of a mechanical rule as written; not advice.