Wickline

Wickline was born inside a debunk. While testing the viral 'wickless candle' strategy (the one claiming an 88% win rate), our placebo control — retests of ordinary candle lows WITH a wick, in a trend — beat the 'magic' setup by half a million dollars per contract over seven years. So we validated the placebo with the full discipline: trade-through limit fills, real costs, a parameter grid that's a ridge rather than a peak, long AND short sides positive, every calendar year green including 2022, and only +0.2 correlation to Slingshot, its trend-pullback sibling. It trades pullbacks to the last wicked 5-minute candle low (or high) with the EMA-50 trend, one-ATR stop and target, flat by the close. Live since July 2026, unchanged from the validated rules.

• Wicked candle-low retest
• EMA-50 trend filter
• 1×ATR stop & target
• Intraday, flat overnight