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DMI Direction: what it's actually best at

Long whenever +DI is above -DI — pure directional movement, no strength filter.

9

assets where it was the #1 edge

0.33

average Sharpe across all tests

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Assets where DMI Direction won

AUD/NZD +4.1%AUD/USD +8.9%EUR/CHF +3.6%EUR/GBP +2.8%USD/SGD +2.8%Axon Enterprise (AXON) +8.7%CBRE Group (CBRE) +6.3%Motorola Solutions (MSI) +0.3%Universal Health Services (UHS) +2.0%

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