Chapter 5 [Second Part]: Many Ripples — The Gestation of Independent Multilayer Logic
VII. The Gears of Layered Defense Wittingly Interlocked
Summer of 2023.
On the MetaEditor screen, a suite of layered defense codes assembled through many trial-and-error iterations.
Multiple independent approaches to capture price waves with different types (range, macro trend, breakout, cycle convergence, time-of-day anomaly), and CanOpenNewLine (20.0-pip overlap prevention mechanism) that physically prevents position overlaps.
Two safety designs that complement each other were integrated into a program, and I held my breath as I ran it on the chart.
【Integrated Behavior of Layered Defense × CanOpenNewLine】
1. Range phase:
The first layer (short-term oscillator) catches fine waves and steadily takes profits.
2. Trend emergence phase:
The second layer (trend-following) and third layer follow suit, keeping a “20.0-pip interval” even if the price moves against us, laying out a vast defense network.
3. Convergence/breakout phase:
Fourth and fifth layers detect volatility distortions and suppress unnecessary entries.
The nightmare of positions clustering in a narrow price range had completely disappeared.
No matter how sharply the market moves, the system calmly guards the “20.0-pip barrier” and maintains wide spacing when placing positions.
And the moment the market slightly rebounds, the evenly distributed positions unleash a beautiful leverage principle, converting all unrealized losses into a net profit.
VIII. The Midnight Confidence at Two A.M. — “This will let me sleep at night” —
Clickety-clack…
In the silent study, only the low hum of the PC fan reverberates.
The backtest asset curve scrolling on the screen.
Even if a temporary drawdown occurs due to a counter-move, the asset curve does not plunge sharply; it curves gently and quickly posts new highs.
“...I am enduring it. The system autonomously absorbs waves of unknown shocks.”
I exhaled deeply in front of the display.
Seven years ago, I froze my index finger in front of the stop-loss button and melted away 300,000 yen from my summer bonus.
A few months earlier, in vanity, I spammed discretionary averaging down, losing 860,000 yen in one night and pressing my forehead to the floor in despair.
Back then, what drove me toward ruin was “human frailty (fear and greed).”
But now what moves on the screen is a “cold, robust mechanism” that spreads the defense network calmly, without a trace of human fragile emotion, aligning with the market’s dynamics.
“This way... I won’t worry about the chart during work. At night, I can sleep soundly without fearing unrealized losses.”
In the depths of my chest, I felt the real tranquility that manual trading or someone else’s EA could never have offered spreading there.
IX. Toward the Next Ocean — The Quest for the Miracle Anchor: AUD/CAD —
However, just because the skeleton of layered defense was completed, it did not mean the voyage of the impregnable ship was fully ready.
“The sturdy ship structure (logic) is done. But where is the optimal sea (currency pair) to float this ship?”
There are many currency pairs around the world.
Dollar/yen, euro/dollar, pound/yen…
No matter how robust the layered defense is built, if you sail into rough seas where thousands of pips blow away in one-way movement, you might eventually capsize beyond your capacity.
“We must extract 100% of the strengths of layered defense and find an ideal base that has long-term stable range reversion.”
The pressure between resource-rich nations, offsetting shocks in iron ore and crude oil—.
Toward the fateful meeting with the miraculous currency pair AUD/CAD (Australian dollar/Canadian dollar), which would become the unshakable stage for the later ‘Golden Wheat Reaper,’ my search moved toward the next abyss.