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Funded Brothers · provisional setup from posts/catalogue: Manipulation Model (VP)
Template coded in system: No
No trader-specific template; generic vp_* templates are not sourced from him.
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Source notes so far (draft, not a template, not used as an A+ gate)
YT titles TX0EY2GuFFo, UdQ_AiZtqG4 ("Volume Profile X Manipulation Candle"); About says fully mechanical. Catalogue-only: no watch pass yet, so rules are mostly not stated.
01. Instrument & data
Enable ........................... True
Instrument ...................... Gold (catalogue) [YT UdQ_AiZtqG4; YT TX0EY2GuFFo]
ExecutionTimeframe .............. not stated02. Sessions
Enable ........................... not stated
TradeWindow ..................... not stated03. Bias
Enable ........................... not stated
BiasMethod ...................... not stated04. Setup
Enable ........................... True
SetupDefinition ................. Volume profile + manipulation candle (title level) [YT UdQ_AiZtqG4; YT TX0EY2GuFFo]05. Entry
Enable ........................... not stated
EntryTrigger .................... not stated06. Stop loss
Enable ........................... not stated
StopMode ........................ not stated07. Take profit
Enable ........................... not stated
TargetMode ...................... not stated08. Risk & limits
Enable ........................... not stated
MaxTradesPerDay ................. not stated
RiskPerTrade .................... not stated09. Filters
Enable ........................... not stated
NewsFilter ...................... not stated
Manipulation candle at the level (title level) · YT UdQ_AiZtqG4
PENDING: entry trigger, not in his material yet (needs a watch pass)
PENDING: stop, not in his material yet (needs a watch pass)
PENDING: target, not in his material yet (needs a watch pass)
Testing rules
Tuning 1 Jan – 30 Apr · four months testOut-of-sample 1 May – 31 Jul · three months testHoldout 1 Aug – 14 Sep · about six weeks testCommission $5 round turn, NQ
01
Lock the rules before testing
Every rule is written in full as a parameter list (sessions, setup conditions, entry, stop, target, max trades, bias) with a version number and a date before any data is run. Nothing changes once testing starts. Any change is a new version, and that version starts again at rule 1.
Name the instrument and the data file. Times are New York time, prices are rounded to the tick, and contract roll weeks are removed. The same cleaned data is used in every window.
This is the only window where settings can be adjusted. Rank settings by net profit after commission. Anything with fewer than 100 trades doesn't qualify. Keep the top 20 and lock them.
Out-of-sample: 1 May to 31 Jul (three months test)
Run the locked settings once, exactly as they are. No changes after seeing the results. A setting passes if it makes a net profit and has a profit factor above 1.
A trade only counts if it passes the trader's written A-plus checklist at entry: right session, liquidity swept, bias agrees, entry model confirmed, and stop and target where the checklist says. Failures are logged as B or C trades and kept out of the results.
Every known real A-plus trade from the trader's videos or posts is traced through the A-plus definition, each filter (session, bias, sweep, timeframe, news, caps), the Roman/ZZ entry path (trigger, confirmation, order type, expiry) and the fill. Record the exact step where each one dies. Misses are fixed in the next version, never the current one.
Every result shows, in order: test number, instrument, length in words, average trade, profit factor, win rate, equity curve; then average signed ticks, trade count and drawdown.
Windows run in order, with no extra out-of-sample passes and no retuning after a peek. Under 100 trades or under about three months is a diagnostic, not a pass.