Rule 7: why the bot ignores repeat signalsBitcoin / TetherUSBINANCE:BTCUSDTMarketFlowResearchA new buy signal is ignored unless price peaked at least 2.3% above it since the previous signal — 32 rejections on validation, 36 on nine unseen days. The network marks bottoms, and a bottom is a place, not a moment: the signal keeps firing for hours while price grinds along the lows. After a trade closes, the next signal in the same dip would buy the same bottom twice. So rule 7: once the bot has a closed trade and no position, a signal is ignored if the highest close between the previous signal and this one is less than 2.3% above the current price. Price has to have left the area and come back before the bot buys again. That works when a dip is one dip. It fails when the market makes a staircase down: a peak, a drop of more than 2.3%, a bottom, a small bounce — and a new signal a little above that bottom. Rule 7 measures from the wrong point and calls it fake. Part 1 of 3 of our study «When a "Fake" Buy Signal Is Really a Deeper Bottom — Rule 7.1, Tested on Validation and Unseen Days». BTC/USDT, order-book data, every number from the research log. AI-assisted research, human-reviewed. Not financial advice.