See the full explainer: What Is a Market Regime in Crypto Trading?. In short, a regime is the market's current character (bull, bear, or choppy), and it matters because no single strategy wins in every regime. A trend-follower that thrives in a strong bull run typically bleeds in a choppy, range-bound market, and a mean-reversion strategy that profits from chop can get run over in a strong trend.
zengtrade's regime engine reads live price structure continuously and gates which strategy types are allowed to take new risk in the current regime, rather than running every strategy blind to what the market is actually doing.
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