Strategy library

Rules you can check before you trade them.

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.

Showing 1–10 of 10 matching strategies

Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Volatility-Normalised Momentum

momentum in units of its own noise

Raw momentum is a trap: a fixed percentage move is enormous in a quiet market and entirely ordinary in a volatile one. A fixed threshold has no idea which regime it is in.

M15 primary · M30 secondaryMomentum · Statistical
Evidence: StrongProfessional

Liquidity Sweep → Market Structure Shift

the full sequence

The full validated sequence: liquidity taken → displacement → break of structure → retracement → confirmation.

M5 primary · M15 contextSMC · Reversal
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Structure Break Failure

the break that turns out to be the top

A structure break is supposed to confirm continuation, which is exactly what makes a failed one informative. Price takes out the last swing high, everyone treats it as confirmation, and then it closes back below.

H1 or H4Market structure · Reversal
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Volume-Confirmed IB Extension

initial balance range extension

The initial balance is the high-low range of a session's first hour — that session's first two-sided auction.

M15 primary · M5 for a faster IB variantAuction · Session Breakout
Evidence: WeakProfessional

Activity Climax Reversal

the bar where everyone finally gave up

A 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.

M15 to H1Order flow · Exhaustion
Evidence: WeakProfessional

Volatility Regime Switch

trend when it is quiet, fade when it is loud

A tempting idea: measure the volatility regime, and run a trend strategy in one regime and a mean-reversion strategy in the other. Two books of this library, switched by one number.

H4 regime · H1 executionVolatility · Regime
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Pyramiding a Daily Trend

add to it, but only with the market's money

Every page in this book so far takes one position and manages it. This one takes a small position and adds to it as the trend pays, so the largest exposure sits on the trade that has already proven itself.

D1 · the underlying trend signal can be any of the trend pages in this librarySwing · Position building
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Real-Yield Regime Gate

gold's most reliable relationship, used as a filter

Gold pays nothing. Holding it costs you whatever a safe inflation-protected bond would have paid, so when that real yield rises, gold becomes more expensive to hold, and when it falls, cheaper. The inverse relationship between gold and real yields is the most durable thing anyone has found about the gold price.

D1 gate · H4 execution · positions held daysGold · Macro regime
Evidence: WeakProfessional

Gold–Silver Ratio Reversion

two metals, one number

Divide the gold price by the silver price and you get a number that traders have watched for a century. When it is historically high, the trade is to sell gold and buy silver; when low, the reverse.

D1 · held weeksMetals · Spread
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Liquidity Recovery Entry

let the spread come back first

Every other approach to a release argues about direction. This one argues about time: liquidity provision and the cost of trading return to their pre-announcement levels within roughly five to fifteen minutes of a release.

M5 execution · the release timed on M1News · Event

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.

Trading carries risk and most retail accounts lose money. Nothing in this library is financial advice or a recommendation to trade. The charts are illustrations of the rules on constructed candles — they are not records of trades and not backtests.