Showing 1–10 of 11 matching strategies
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Execution Quality
the difference between your backtest and your fillsTwo accounts running an identical bot on the identical strategy will produce different results, and on a scalping timeframe the difference can be larger than the edge. The cause is execution: how the order is routed, how long it takes, and what happens when the market moves while it is in flight.
M1 to M15Scalping · Execution
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Daily Breakout Retest
let the break go, buy the returnA daily level breaks. Most traders are in on the break. This one is not — it waits for price to come back to the level it just broke and hold it.
D1 level · H4 for the retest triggerSwing · Continuation
Evidence: WeakIntermediate
The Low-Variance Profile
many small trades rather than a few large onesSome strategies pass challenges easily and some do not, and it has little to do with how profitable they are. A method with a high hit rate and modest winners produces a smooth curve that clears a target without ever approaching the floor. A trend method with the same annual return arrives in three trades and spends the rest of the time in drawdown.
M15 to D1 — intraday and short swing fit the format bestProp firm · Strategy selection
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Rule-Compliant Execution
the breaches that have nothing to do with lossesA large share of failed evaluations are not losing accounts. They are profitable accounts that broke an operational rule — a position held over a restricted period, a trade placed around a restricted event, a lot size above a cap, a strategy the firm does not allow.
Any — enforced continuously, on every orderProp firm · Operations
Evidence: WeakIntermediate
After Funding
the account you keep is not the one you passedPassing changes the objective completely. During an evaluation the goal is to reach a target once. On a funded account the goal is to produce a payout repeatedly without ever breaching a loss rule that usually still applies.
Any · measured in payout cycles rather than against a targetProp firm · Funded phase
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Top-Down Alignment
direction from the daily, entry from the intradayThe standard three-timeframe structure, written out properly. The daily chart decides whether you may trade and in which direction. The four-hour decides where. The fifteen-minute decides when.
D1 direction · H4 level · M15 triggerMulti-timeframe · Continuation
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
ATR Chandelier Trail
hang the stop from the highest point so farThe stop hangs a fixed number of average true ranges below the highest high the trade has reached — so it rises as the trade works and never falls. The distance adapts to the market's own volatility rather than to a round number of pips.
H1 and above · on D1 it is the standard trend-following exitExit · Volatility trail
Evidence: StrongIntermediate
Whether to Use a Stop at All
the one question with a real research answerEvery retail course says always use a stop. The research says something more specific and more useful: whether a stop-loss helps depends on what the price series does.
AnyExit · Risk design
Evidence: StrongIntermediate
Volatility-Parity Sizing
equal risk, not equal lotsTwo positions of the same size in gold and in EURGBP are not two equal bets. Gold's daily range can be several times the cross's, so the gold position is doing most of the work and carrying most of the risk while looking identical on the platform.
Any · re-estimate volatility weeklyRisk · Portfolio
Evidence: StrongIntermediate
Correlation-Adjusted Exposure
five dollar pairs is one tradeAn account holding long EURUSD, long GBPUSD, long AUDUSD, short USDJPY and short USDCHF believes it has five positions at 1% each. It has one position at something close to 5%, and it will discover this on the day the dollar moves.
Any · correlations re-estimated monthlyRisk · Portfolio