Gate A: does any resting-order cycle clear its costs?

This site's own explanation of the words above. The verdict itself is published exactly as the research index records it and is not rewritten here.

touch_only

A deliberately generous rule for deciding an order filled: it counts a fill whenever the market price reached the order's price at all. Real fills are a subset of these, so a result measured this way is an upper bound on what could have happened, not an estimate of what did.

attempted cycle

One full attempt at the strategy: place a buy order, wait, and sell if it fills. Attempts that never filled are counted too, so an average per attempted cycle cannot be flattered by dropping the ones that did not work.