AI & Quantitative

Market Regime

The current dominant state of the market — trending (bull/bear), range-bound, or high-volatility — that determines which trading strategies work best.

Explained Simply

Markets cycle through regimes. Momentum strategies thrive in trending regimes but fail in range-bound markets. Mean reversion strategies work great in ranges but get destroyed in trends. Recognizing the current regime and adapting your strategy is one of the most important edges in trading. Regime changes often happen at inflection points: economic data surprises, Fed policy shifts, or geopolitical events.

How Tradewink Uses Market Regime

Tradewink uses a Gaussian Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to classify the current market regime in real-time. The regime state affects every part of the system: which signal types are prioritized (momentum in trends, mean reversion in ranges), position sizing (reduced in high-vol), stop-loss width (wider in high-vol), and even which AI analysis prompts are used.

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See Market Regime in action

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