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 21–30 of 33 matching strategies

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: ModerateBeginner

CCI Extremes

deviation from the typical price

The Commodity Channel Index measures how far the typical price — the average of high, low and close — sits from its own moving average, scaled by mean deviation. Unlike RSI it is unbounded: it can read −400, and sometimes does.

H1 primary · H4 for the trend filterMean reversion · Oscillator
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Williams %R Reversion

position in the range, unsmoothed

Williams %R answers one question and nothing else: where did this bar close inside the high-low range of the last N bars? At −100 it closed at the very bottom of it; at 0, at the very top.

H1 primary · H4 for contextMean reversion · Oscillator
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Stochastic Reversion

the same reading, smoothed twice

The stochastic asks the same question as Williams %R — where in the recent range did this bar close — and then smooths the answer twice. %K is the raw reading; %D is %K averaged again.

H1 primary · H4 for the trend filterMean reversion · Oscillator
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Moving Average Envelope

a fixed percentage, on purpose

An envelope is a moving average with a fixed percentage band around it — not a standard deviation, not an ATR multiple. A half-percent envelope is half a percent whatever volatility is doing.

H1 primary · H4 for contextMean reversion · Envelope
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Volatility Contraction Breakout

the range narrows, then gives way

Ranges 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.

H1 primary · H4 for contextVolatility · Expansion
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Squeeze Release

Bollinger bands inside the Keltner channel

Two 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.

H1 or H4 · the same rule reads on bothVolatility · Band compression
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: ModerateBeginner

Daily Trend Pullback

buy the dip inside a trend that already exists

The most-traded idea in the market, and the one most often traded badly. A trend is running; price pauses against it; you join at the pause rather than at the extreme.

D1 signal · H4 for the entry trigger if you want oneSwing · Continuation
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

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.