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 41–50 of 67 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: 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
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: 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

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: 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
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

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.