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 11–20 of 26 matching strategies

Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Previous Day High / Low Break and Retest

PDH / PDL liquidity levels

The previous trading day's high and low are the most widely watched intraday levels in FX. The trade is continuation on the break of one of them.

D1 levels · H1 / M15 executionBreakout · Support & Resistance
Evidence: StrongIntermediate

Daily-Momentum-Gated Pullback

documented edge, intraday execution

The edge comes from daily momentum, which has the strongest evidence behind it in FX. The M15 chart is execution only — a way to get a better price inside a permission that has already been granted.

M15 entry · daily momentum gateMomentum · Multi-timeframe
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Rate of Change Threshold

momentum as a number, not as a crossing

The 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.

H4 or D1Momentum · Indicator
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Engulfing Bar at a Level

the most-taught candle, in the only place it means anything

A bar whose body completely covers the previous bar's body, closing in the opposite direction. Taken alone it is one of the weakest signals in retail trading — it happens constantly and predicts very little.

H1 or H4 · the level comes from D1Price action · Candle
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Failed Breakout Reversal

the break that does not stick

Price 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.

H1 execution · the level from H4 or D1Price action · Reversal
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: ModerateBeginner

RSI(2) Extremes

the short-period oscillator

A two-period RSI is deliberately jumpy. It is not there to describe a trend — it is there to register, in one number, that the last two bars have been one-sided. Below 5 means almost everything recently has been selling.

H1 primary · D1 for the trend filterMean reversion · Oscillator
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
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Daily Breakout Retest

let the break go, buy the return

A 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: ModerateBeginner

New 20-Day High Continuation

the oldest systematic trade there is

Buy a new twenty-day high. Sell a new twenty-day low. There is no filter, no oscillator and no opinion, and versions of this have been traded since the 1960s.

D1 only · held for weeksSwing · Breakout

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.