Failure-Mode · CrashTestYourStrategy Ontology
Sideways
SIDEWAYS
Definition
A market regime characterized by extended range-bound oscillation without decisive directional resolution; total return roughly -10% to +25%, persistence at least 4 months, net direction small relative to volatility.
Identifier
SIDEWAYS
Slug
sideways
Score bucket
Yes — contributes to V2 robustness score aggregation.
Regime class
mean_reverting_regimes
Related terms
How this term appears in API responses
Appears as termCode in DefinedTerm JSON-LD on /methodology, and as a regime / mode value in /interop agent-API responses.
Operational classification is performed ex-post on simulated replicas; replicas that do not meet the gating definition are excluded from this bucket and may be augmented from a-priori tags when the bucket would otherwise be sparse (Phase 18d).