Evidence: WeakIntermediate
Ichimoku Kumo Breakout
all four conditionsThe cloud is a forward-projected zone of consensus price. Inside it is equilibrium; a close outside it is a rejection of that equilibrium.
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Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
ATR Channel Breakout
a level that moves with volatilityEvery other level in this book is fixed once it is drawn. This one is not: the channel sits a set number of average true ranges away from a moving average, so it widens when the market gets loud and tightens when it goes quiet.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Weekly Range Breakout
the level a whole week builtLast week's high and low are the same two numbers on every chart in the world, and they took five days of trading to build. That makes them the most-watched levels in this book after the previous day's.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Rate of Change Threshold
momentum as a number, not as a crossingThe simplest possible measurement: price now divided by price N bars ago. If it is above a threshold, the instrument is in an uptrend; below, a downtrend. No smoothing, no crossings, no lag beyond the lookback itself.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Failed Breakout Reversal
the break that does not stickPrice breaks a level, everyone who was waiting for the break is in, and then it closes back inside. Those positions are now wrong, their stops sit just beyond the level, and the move away from it is fed by them being taken out.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Compression Into a Level
when the pullbacks stop reaching backPrice approaches a level and, instead of bouncing away, each pullback from it becomes shallower. The lows step up, the level holds flat, and the space between them runs out.
Evidence: WeakIntermediate
Order Block Retest
the last opposing candle before the moveThe last down candle before a strong move up is marked as a zone, and a return to it is treated as a place to buy. The reasoning offered is that institutional orders were placed there and that some of them remain unfilled.
Evidence: WeakIntermediate
Fair Value Gap Fill
the thin patch a fast move leaves behindThree consecutive candles where the first bar's high sits below the third bar's low leave a band of prices that barely traded. Price moved through it too quickly for an auction to happen.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Volatility Contraction Breakout
the range narrows, then gives wayRanges do not narrow at random. A market that has stopped moving is a market where the two sides have run out of disagreement, and that state does not last — the next expansion arrives, usually soon, because volatility clusters.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Squeeze Release
Bollinger bands inside the Keltner channelTwo ways of measuring the same width disagree in a useful way. Bollinger bands are built from standard deviation, which collapses fast when price goes quiet. The Keltner channel is built from average true range, which collapses slowly.
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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