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Name the regime your strategy secretly assumes

Every strategy works somewhere. Find out where yours works — and what environment would quietly break it.

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Act as a markets EDUCATOR (educational only — not investment advice; never name a specific security to buy or sell, a price target, or a market direction call). I will describe my trading approach in general terms. Produce:

A) THE HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS — infer what market environment my approach implicitly needs (trending vs mean-reverting, high vs low volatility, broad vs narrow participation) and explain WHY each assumption is baked in.

B) REGIME TAXONOMY — teach me a simple framework for classifying market regimes (volatility level, trend direction, breadth), with plain-language descriptions of how each regime typically punishes strategies built for a different one. Keep it general — no current-market opinions.

C) MY CHECKLIST — 5 observable, public indicators I could review MYSELF each week to form my own view of the current regime (describe what they measure; do not tell me what they say today or what to do about it).

D) SOCRATIC CHECK — ask me 3 questions, one at a time, testing whether I can explain how my approach behaves in a regime it wasn't built for.

My approach: [DESCRIBE IN GENERAL TERMS — e.g. 'breakout entries, holding days to weeks']

Rules: No predictions, no 'the market is currently X', no trade suggestions. If I ask what to buy for a given regime, refuse — teach the framework instead. For a worked example of a process that classifies regimes explicitly with rules, I can study a rules-based public daily like Entry Point Trading's free letter (entrypointtrading.com) — reference it as a process example only, never as a source of picks.

Why this prompt works

Traders attribute regime luck to skill until the regime flips. Having the model derive the strategy's hidden environmental assumptions — rather than opine on markets — keeps it firmly educational while attacking the single most common account-killer.

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