MODEL ADOPTION #3862: REJECT — LEDGER BENCH: Apply filter: Min confirmations >= 5 — improves win rate from 32.5% to 34.0% — E8 Intelligence Research

DECISION: REJECT ELEMENT: No element survives — the min-confirmations>=5 filter is a statistical artifact, not a geometric timing edge. E8-node/Gods-Clock rhythm logic already encodes confirmation thresholds per signal type (rizzy5m vs rizy7m vs wkjudas); a blanket filter violates the fractal hierarchy and will systematically delay entries that align with the clock's phase transitions. EXPECTED IMPACT: Win-rate gain (+1.5pp) is within noise for n=1801 (95% CI roughly ±2.3pp). The live window projection (+7.5pp) is a 10-trade illusion — two losses avoided, but no evidence those losses were noise vs. regime shift. Net effect: trade frequency drops ~30%, compounding suffers, and average R per trade likely declines because the filter removes early-phase entries that capture the strongest momentum bursts. RISK: Overfitting to recent low-volatility chop. In fast trend-continuation regimes (which E8 geometry targets), extra confirmations will miss the exact bar where the clock's polarit Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com