Evidence: ModerateProfessional
Macro-Announcement Jump Continuation
the adjustment, not the jumpOn a scheduled macro release the exchange rate jumps immediately. That jump is not your trade — the adjustment after it is.
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Every strategy carries its exact rules, an annotated chart of the setup, the research behind why it should work at all — and the conditions under which you should not take it.
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Evidence: ModerateProfessional
Volume-Confirmed IB Extension
initial balance range extensionThe initial balance is the high-low range of a session's first hour — that session's first two-sided auction.
Evidence: ModerateProfessional
Value Area Retest
the prices where the day actually did businessInstead of asking when the market traded, a volume profile asks where: how much activity happened at each price. The result is usually a fat middle where most business was done and thin tails where price passed through quickly.
Evidence: WeakProfessional
Activity Climax Reversal
the bar where everyone finally gave upA sharp move ends on one enormous bar with far more activity than anything around it, and the reading offered is that the last holders capitulated into buyers who were waiting.
Evidence: WeakProfessional
Cumulative Delta — and Why It Is Not on Your Chart
the order flow tool retail spot FX does not haveCumulative delta is the running total of volume that traded at the ask minus volume that traded at the bid — a genuine measure of which side was more aggressive. On a futures exchange it is real data and it is genuinely informative.
Evidence: ModerateProfessional
Z-Score Reversion
the distance, stated plainlyEvery band on this page is a z-score wearing a costume. This page takes the costume off: z = (price − mean) ÷ standard deviation, computed over a fixed lookback, and the rule is a number rather than a line on a chart.
Evidence: StrongProfessional
Microstructure Reversion
the spread's own footprintIn an efficient market, the act of trading leaves a trace. Buyers lift the ask and sellers hit the bid, so observed prices alternate between the two sides even when nothing about the instrument has changed. Roll showed this produces negative serial correlation in consecutive price changes — and that the size of it measures the spread itself.
Evidence: StrongProfessional
Order Flow Imbalance
the book, not the chartOver very short intervals, price does not move because of a pattern. It moves because the flow of orders at the best bid and the best ask is lopsided. Cont, Kukanov and Stoikov measured that directly and found a linear relationship between order flow imbalance and the price change that follows, with the slope set by how deep the book is.
Evidence: StrongProfessional
The Liquidity Window
scalp the hours, not the patternEvery scalping strategy has the same denominator: the spread you pay. That spread is not constant through the day — it is narrowest when the most participants are in the market, and the range available to trade is widest at the same time.
Evidence: StrongProfessional
Volatility-Targeted Trend
the same trade, sized by how loud the market isThis is the one strategy in the book where the entry is deliberately dull. A moving-average trend rule, nothing clever. What makes it work is that the position size is set so every trade risks the same amount of volatility, not the same number of lots.
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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