Wide-stop trend follower for Bybit USDT-perps (1h timeframe), 15 large-cap pairs. 6-signal confidence scoring (EMA / RSI / ADX / volume / Bollinger / MACD). Key feature: cascading early loss cut replaces the typical flat time_exit_24h rule. Backtest improvement on the same 30-day window: - Profit factor: 1.03 -> 1.41 - Max drawdown: -6.12% -> -1.42% - Sharpe: 0.22 -> 0.91 - Win rate unchanged at 66.7% - Avg loser: -$1.14 -> -$0.34 (70% reduction) The strategy is currently running live on a public dashboard at https://trendrider.net/live which reads the bot's SQLite every 60 seconds. Full post-mortem with every trade and the V3 -> V4 fix story: https://trendrider.net/blog/freqtrade-bot-14-days-breakeven-v4-fix-2026 Source repo (MIT, with banner and full docs): https://github.com/darkvolg/trendrider-strategy Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>