Dual-average crossovers fire often in ranges. Rather than abandoning the rule, Lab participants add a context check: average slope agreement over a short lookback, distance between the two averages as a percentage of price, and a simple “no new signal if the last three bars closed inside the ribbon.”
None of these filters are secret edge. They are discipline tools so a written strategy survives quiet markets. We rehearse them on historical charts before anyone applies them live.