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 1–10 of 26 matching strategies

Evidence: WeakBeginner

RSI Overbought and Oversold

what the 70 and 30 lines actually tell you

RSI above 70 is called overbought and below 30 oversold, and beginners are taught to sell the first and buy the second. Traded that way it is one of the more reliable ways to lose money in a trending market, because in a strong trend the RSI stays above 70 for weeks while price keeps going.

H1 to D1Foundations · Oscillator
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Fibonacci Retracement

the most popular tool with the least support

Draw from a swing low to a swing high and the tool marks 38.2%, 50% and 61.8%. The claim is that pullbacks stall at these fractions because of a mathematical relationship found in nature.

H1 to D1Foundations · Retracement
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Trendline Breakout

the level you drew yourself

A descending trendline connects successive lower highs. When price closes above it, the sequence that defined the move has ended.

H1 primary · H4 to find the lineBreakout · Price action
Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Consolidation Box Breakout

a rectangle with four touches

A consolidation box is two horizontal lines that price has respected at least twice on each side. It is the halfway house between a trendline and a session range: drawn by hand like the first, but horizontal and objective like the second.

M15 primary · H1 to find the boxBreakout · Price action
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Asian Range → London Breakout

session opening range breakout

Genuine EUR and GBP flow is thin through Tokyo hours, so price compresses into a narrow range. At the London open the largest share of global FX turnover comes online, and that compression breaks.

M15 execution · H1 contextBreakout · Session-based
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: ModerateBeginner

Bollinger Squeeze Expansion

bandwidth percentile breakout

Bandwidth = (upper − lower) ÷ middle. When it sits in the bottom 20th percentile of its own 120-bar history, the squeeze is on.

H1 · H4 · D1 — the multi-timeframe variant is the strongestVolatility · Breakout
Evidence: StrongProfessional

Local-Hours Currency Momentum

the time-of-day tilt

FX returns carry a documented time-of-day pattern: currencies tend to depreciate during their own local trading hours and appreciate during foreign hours.

M15 primary · H1 secondaryMomentum · Session
Evidence: WeakBeginner

MACD Histogram Acceleration

the popular one, and what it actually measures

The MACD histogram is the difference between two exponential averages, minus a third average of that difference. Rising histogram is usually described as accelerating momentum.

H1 or H4Momentum · Indicator
Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Pin Bar at a Higher-Timeframe Level

the control case for Day 5

A pin bar is a candle whose wick is at least two thirds of its total range, whose body sits in the opposite third, and which closes on the correct side of the level.

M15 entry · H1 levelPrice Action · Reversal Trigger

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.