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.

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Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Compression Into a Level

when the pullbacks stop reaching back

Price 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.

H1 or H4Price action · Continuation
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Wide-Range Bar Retracement

half of the move that started it

One 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.

H1 or H4Price action · Pullback
Evidence: WeakIntermediate

Order Block Retest

the last opposing candle before the move

The 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.

H1 or H4 · the zone from H4 or D1Market structure · Level
Evidence: WeakIntermediate

Fair Value Gap Fill

the thin patch a fast move leaves behind

Three 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.

M15 to H4Market structure · Imbalance
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: WeakProfessional

Accumulation to Expansion

a long quiet range that ends in one direction

A market spends a long time in a narrow range, sweeps one side of it without following through, and then leaves in the other direction. The sweep is read as the last of the sellers being absorbed before the move.

H4 range · H1 executionMarket structure · Regime
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Macro-Announcement Jump Continuation

the adjustment, not the jump

On a scheduled macro release the exchange rate jumps immediately. That jump is not your trade — the adjustment after it is.

M1 primary · M5 secondaryOrder Flow · Event
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Value Area Retest

the prices where the day actually did business

Instead 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.

Profile built on the previous day · executed on M15Order flow · Volume profile
Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Bollinger Band Fade

two standard deviations

Bollinger 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.

M15 primary · H1 for the range checkMean reversion · Volatility band
Evidence: StrongIntermediate

Weekend Gap Reversion

the overreaction with its own paper

Two days of news arrive into a market that cannot trade, and on Monday it all prints at once. The opening gap is a single, forced repricing with no liquidity behind it — which is the textbook condition for an overreaction.

M15 execution · the gap measured on D1Mean reversion · Calendar

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.