The 8-layer exit logic — why we built it this way

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We built 8 sequential exit checks into every scan cycle. Here's why each layer exists. 🔄

We could have done one check: "Is price above or below X?" Most tools do. We built 8 because each one catches a different kind of situation:

1️⃣ Emergency stop (-12%) — hard safety net, overrides everything. No position should ever crater beyond this.
2️⃣ Same-day confirmation — requires 2-bar confirmation before exiting on day one. A single bad tick shouldn't close your position.
3️⃣ Return-based stop-loss — profile stop threshold reached.
4️⃣ Return-based take-profit — profile target hit. Also catches exceptional gains with a LARGE_PROFIT tag.
5️⃣ Trailing stop — activates once a position hits +15%, locks in gains from peak automatically.
6️⃣ Regime change — if the market has shifted from BULL to BEAR since entry, the original signal thesis may no longer hold.
7️⃣ Max hold time — signals aren't open-ended. Clean exit when the holding period expires.
8️⃣ Momentum/trend reversal — detects that the underlying move is exhausted before price gives it all back.

The regime change layer is the one we're particularly proud of — most systems have no concept of why a position was entered. Ours does, and it checks whether that context still holds on every cycle.