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 31–40 of 63 matching strategies

Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Change of Character Reversal

CHoCH, then a lower high

A change of character is the first time a trend's own structure fails. In an uptrend: a candle closes below the last higher low.

M15 primary · M5 for entry refinementMarket Structure · Reversal
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: ModerateIntermediate

Premium / Discount in a Dealing Range

a location filter, never a signal

A dealing range runs from a clear swing low to a clear swing high. Its midpoint is equilibrium: the upper half is premium, the lower half is discount.

M15 primary · M5 for entry refinementMarket Structure · Location
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: StrongProfessional

London 16:00 Fix Flow

month-end rebalancing

On the last business day of the month, large asset managers rebalance their currency hedges, and that rebalancing executes at the 16:00 London fix.

M1 primary · M5 secondaryOrder Flow · Scheduled Event
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Volume-Confirmed Liquidity Sweep

the spike is the evidence

Stops rest above a level. When price takes it with a wick and closes back inside, that is a sweep.

M5 primary · M15 secondaryOrder Flow · Liquidity
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

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.