🦡 BADGER v1.0.0 — OI-Divergence Breakout Anticipator

Only take the breakout the order flow confirms. Badger waits for price to break its prior 24h range AND for open interest to be rising into that break — proof that new money is committing, not just stops getting run. A breakout on flat or declining OI is a fakeout; Badger skips it.

Why this strategy exists

Pure price-breakout strategies (like Hawk) fire on every range break — and most range breaks fail. The single best filter for "will this breakout follow through?" is open interest:

• Price breaks out + OI rising → new positions are being opened in the breakout direction. Real conviction, real follow-through.
• Price breaks out + OI flat/falling → no new money; the move is shorts covering or stops triggering. Fakeout. Skip.

Badger is the OI-confirmed version of a breakout buyer. The rising-OI gate is what separates it from Hawk.

CRITICAL RULES

RULE 1: OI-rising is a hard gate

Open interest must be rising at least oiRisingMinPct (default 2%) over the 1h window. Below that, no entry — regardless of how clean the price breakout looks. This is the whole edge.