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    "purpose": "Provide a reproducible recent-month EURUSD tape without turning a descriptive month into a forecast, causal story, or trading signal."
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  },
  "methodology": {
    "calendar": "All month, date, hour, and fixed-window boundaries use UTC. A weekday row is a Monday-through-Friday UTC calendar date, not a broker-specific New York-close D1 candle.",
    "pip": "One EURUSD pip is defined as 0.0001. Pip differences are calculated from unrounded float32 source values and rounded to one decimal only for publication.",
    "monthOpenClose": "Month open is the first observed bid open at or after 00:00 UTC on June 1. Month close is the last observed bid close before 00:00 UTC on July 1.",
    "dailyRange": "Daily range is the highest observed M1 bid high minus the lowest observed M1 bid low for each UTC weekday, divided by 0.0001.",
    "hourlyRange": "Each fixed UTC hour is summarized only when at least 45 observed M1 candles exist in that date-hour block.",
    "fixedWindows": "The four labeled UTC windows are clock buckets, not claims about one venue open. A block qualifies with at least 80% of its possible M1 observations. Windows are not shifted for daylight-saving time.",
    "return": "Open-to-close percentage return is close divided by open minus one. Close-to-close daily return uses the previous observed UTC weekday close.",
    "comparison": "Complete-month rankings exclude the partial first and current edge months. Historical-June and recent-month comparisons are descriptive and are not significance tests.",
    "priceThreshold": "A close below 1.1500 means an observed M1 bid close strictly below 1.1500. It is not a statement about every broker, ask quote, midpoint, fix, or futures settlement.",
    "missingData": "No missing minute is forward-filled. Closed-market intervals are absent. Counts describe observed bid candles rather than an assertion that every wall-clock minute must trade.",
    "limitations": [
      "Bid OHLC only; no ask prices, spread, volume, slippage, commission, swap, latency, or executable fills.",
      "Float32 source values can differ slightly from a platform that rounds prices before aggregation.",
      "UTC calendar bars can differ from broker D1 candles, CME euro futures, and official daily reference rates.",
      "Fixed UTC windows do not track daylight-saving shifts in named financial centres.",
      "This is descriptive historical evidence. It does not identify why EURUSD moved and does not forecast its next move."
    ]
  }
}