Understanding Market Regimes: Trending vs Ranging
Have you ever had a strategy that printed money for a week, and then suddenly lost it all the next week? The strategy didn't break. The Market Regime changed.
The Two States of the Market
Markets are dynamic, but they generally exist in one of two states:
- Trending (Expansion): Price is moving directionally with conviction. Higher highs and higher lows (uptrend) or lower highs and lower lows (downtrend).
- Ranging (Consolidation/Mean Reversion): Price is bouncing between a high and a low, lacking clear direction.
Crucial Fact: Markets range about 70% of the time and trend only 30% of the time.
Matching the Bot to the Regime
This is where most automated traders fail. They run a Trend Following bot in a Ranging market.
- Trend Bot in a Range: It buys the "breakout" at the high, the market reverses, and it gets stopped out. Repeat until account is blown.
- Mean Reversion Bot in a Trend: It sells the high, thinking price will revert. But price keeps going up. It adds to the position. Price keeps going. Massive loss.
The YMI Solution
We don't guess. We classify. Our AI models analyze volatility, volume, and momentum to determine the probability of the day's regime before we deploy capital.
If the model says "High Probability Trend," we load the KPL Trend template. If it says "Choppy/Range," we load the Marty Mean Reversion template. This is the secret to consistency.
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