Failure-Mode · CrashTestYourStrategy Ontology
Whipsaw
WHIPSAW
Definition
A market regime characterized by repeated directional reversals at signal-relevant levels, generating false confirmation signals; at least 3-5 sign-changes greater than 5% over 3-6 months, net case return near zero.
Identifier
WHIPSAW
Slug
whipsaw
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).