Range Bar Trigger Design — Decision Lab

Every option below is drawn on the same simulated BTC trade tape. Change a rule, and you see exactly which bars it would have printed. Pick one option per section, then hit Copy my selections at the bottom.

Locked — not up for discussion

These are fixed by your brief. Nothing below can change them; every option is designed to be compatible.

The tape

900 simulated aggregate trades on BTC: a quiet chop, a steady climb, one violent +1.8% jump in a single print, a sell-off, then chop again. That jump is deliberate — it is where the algorithms disagree most.

0.25% = 250 dbps
2.0× against trend
Your ODB today (baseline) Currently selected rule Price path (every trade)

Shaded blocks are bars. A boundary line = a bar closed and a new one opened. Hover anywhere on the chart.

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What trips the bar?

This is the big one — the actual definition of "range". All five keep your percentage threshold; they differ in what the percentage is measured from. Each mini-chart below is the same tape, cut by that rule.

Show the numbers as a table
RuleBarsMedian heightBiggest barMost trades in one barCloses at an extreme

"Height" = high÷low − 1, i.e. how tall the bar actually is. "Closes at an extreme" = the share of bars whose close is also the bar's high or low — the classic range-bar signature.

Your configuration

Copied — paste it back to Claude.