Evidence: WeakBeginner
Wide-Range Bar Retracement
half of the move that started itOne bar moves a long way. Price then retraces into the middle of that bar, and the trade is taken there on the assumption that the move continues.
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Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Bollinger Band Fade
two standard deviationsBollinger bands put a number on how unusual the current price is, in units of its own recent volatility. A close outside the lower band means price is further from its twenty-period average than it has been about ninety-five percent of the time.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
CCI Extremes
deviation from the typical priceThe Commodity Channel Index measures how far the typical price — the average of high, low and close — sits from its own moving average, scaled by mean deviation. Unlike RSI it is unbounded: it can read −400, and sometimes does.
Evidence: WeakBeginner
Stochastic Reversion
the same reading, smoothed twiceThe stochastic asks the same question as Williams %R — where in the recent range did this bar close — and then smooths the answer twice. %K is the raw reading; %D is %K averaged again.
Evidence: WeakBeginner
Moving Average Envelope
a fixed percentage, on purposeAn envelope is a moving average with a fixed percentage band around it — not a standard deviation, not an ATR multiple. A half-percent envelope is half a percent whatever volatility is doing.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Daily Trend Pullback
buy the dip inside a trend that already existsThe most-traded idea in the market, and the one most often traded badly. A trend is running; price pauses against it; you join at the pause rather than at the extreme.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Three-Day Reversal
three closes the same way, then the turnThree consecutive daily closes in one direction is not rare, but three consecutive closes against an established uptrend is, and the fourth day resolves it one way or the other.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
New 20-Day High Continuation
the oldest systematic trade there isBuy a new twenty-day high. Sell a new twenty-day low. There is no filter, no oscillator and no opinion, and versions of this have been traded since the 1960s.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Weekly Bias, Daily Execution
one decision a week, then get out of the wayThe slowest page in the book and, for most retail accounts, the most useful one. A single decision is made at the weekly close — long, short, or flat — and it does not change until the next weekly close, whatever happens in between.
Evidence: WeakBeginner
Triple-Timeframe Momentum
the same indicator, three times — and why that is less than it looksPut the same momentum indicator on the daily, the four-hour and the hourly, and trade only when all three point the same way. It feels like three confirmations. It is not.
What the evidence rating means
Strong
The mechanism has peer-reviewed, FX-specific research behind it.
Moderate
The mechanism is sound, but at least one step of it is untested.
Weak
Practitioner literature only — no published research supports the mechanism.
It rates the mechanism — whether there is published research explaining why the market should behave this way. It does not rate profit. Strong does not mean the trade will work. None of these have been run on our own account, and no page here shows a backtest figure.
What the level means
Beginner
One instrument, one timeframe, every rule visible on the chart.
Intermediate
Several conditions have to line up, and execution starts to matter.
Professional
Needs an outside data feed, a basket, real order flow, or an unusual tolerance for lumpy losses.
The level describes what it takes to run the strategy, not how well it works. Several Beginner pages are better evidenced than several Professional ones — a basket carry trade is Professional because it needs eight currencies and a swap table, not because it is cleverer than buying a pullback.
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