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      <title>Dip Hunter takes the lead as mean-reversion finally breaks</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A trending tape rewarded directional systems and punished the fade. Dip Hunter moved to first while RSI Rebound gave back two weeks of gains.]]></description>
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      <title>The fade finally pays — RSI Rebound's week</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A range-bound, indecisive week tipped the table toward mean-reversion. RSI Rebound topped the board; trend systems struggled to find a foothold.]]></description>
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      <title>What max drawdown actually tells you</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Max drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough decline in an equity curve, measuring the worst pain a strategy inflicted; it matters more than total return because deep drawdowns get strategies abandoned at the worst possible moment.]]></description>
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      <title>Win rate vs expectancy: don't confuse them</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/risk-and-performance/win-rate-vs-expectancy</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Win rate is the percentage of trades that profit; expectancy is what the average trade actually earns after weighing wins against losses. A high win rate with large losers can have negative expectancy, which is what actually matters.]]></description>
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      <title>Sharpe ratio explained without the academia</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Sharpe ratio measures excess return per unit of volatility; it is the most popular risk-adjusted return metric but penalises upside volatility just as much as downside, which can make it misleading for asymmetric strategies.]]></description>
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      <title>Why backtests lie (and what to do about it)</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/strategy-basics/why-backtests-lie</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Backtests systematically overstate live performance because they rely on optimistic assumptions about fees, slippage, fills and parameter selection; the prettier the backtest, the more skeptical you should be.]]></description>
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      <title>Sample size and noise: why one good week means nothing</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/strategy-basics/sample-size-and-noise</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A handful of trades cannot distinguish skill from luck; meaningful conclusions about a strategy generally require dozens to hundreds of trades, not a single good week.]]></description>
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      <title>Moving averages, demystified</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/indicator-explainers/moving-averages-explained</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A moving average is the rolling mean of recent prices over N bars; the SMA weights all bars equally, the EMA weights recent bars more heavily, and they are best used as regime filters rather than entry triggers.]]></description>
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      <title>RSI explained without the mysticism</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Relative Strength Index (RSI) compares the size of recent gains to recent losses on a 0–100 scale; readings above 70 mean recent up-moves dominated, not that price is about to reverse.]]></description>
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      <title>ATR and volatility-aware stops</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/indicator-explainers/atr-and-volatility-stops</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Average True Range (ATR) measures recent typical price movement; using ATR-based stops keeps risk roughly constant across instruments and across changing market volatility.]]></description>
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      <title>What is a market regime?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A market regime is the dominant character of price action — typically classified as trending, range-bound, expanding (high volatility), or contracting (low volatility) — and most strategies only work in one or two of them.]]></description>
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      <title>Pine Script: getting started</title>
      <link>https://algovs.app/learn/pine-script-basics/pine-script-getting-started</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Pine Script is TradingView's domain-specific language for indicators and strategies; every script declares a version, a type (indicator or strategy) and uses series-based math evaluated bar-by-bar.]]></description>
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