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 60 matching strategies

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: 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

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: 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: ModerateIntermediate

VWAP Reversion

the price institutions are measured against

VWAP is not just another average. It is the benchmark large orders are graded on — a desk that fills above VWAP on a buy has done a bad job — which gives the level a real reason to attract orders rather than merely describe them.

M15 primary · M5 for the entryMean reversion · Session
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Keltner Channel Fade

bands built from range, not deviation

A Keltner channel measures the same distance as a Bollinger band but with a different ruler: average true range instead of standard deviation. Range reacts to gaps and spikes differently from deviation, so the two bands disagree exactly when it matters most.

M15 primary · H1 for contextMean reversion · Volatility band

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.