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 12 matching strategies

Evidence: WeakBeginner

The Moving Average Crossover

the most-tested rule in trading

A fast average crosses a slow one and you take the position. It is the first system almost everyone builds and it has been tested more times, by more people, than any other rule in this library.

D1 for the classic version · H4 for a faster oneFoundations · Trend
Evidence: WeakBeginner

Pivot Point Breakout

levels everyone computes the same way

Floor pivots are arithmetic: the pivot is yesterday's high, low and close averaged, and R1 and S1 are simple reflections of it. Nothing is drawn by hand and nothing is judged.

M15 execution · pivots computed from D1Breakout · Reference level
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: ModerateIntermediate

Rate of Change Threshold

momentum as a number, not as a crossing

The simplest possible measurement: price now divided by price N bars ago. If it is above a threshold, the instrument is in an uptrend; below, a downtrend. No smoothing, no crossings, no lag beyond the lookback itself.

H4 or D1Momentum · Indicator
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Proximity to the 52-Week High

how close to the top of the range, rather than how far it has come

A different way of measuring the same effect. Instead of ranking by return, rank by how close price is to its own twelve-month high. The two rankings often disagree, and the difference is informative.

D1 · held weeks to monthsMomentum · Anchoring
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Failed Breakout Reversal

the break that does not stick

Price breaks a level, everyone who was waiting for the break is in, and then it closes back inside. Those positions are now wrong, their stops sit just beyond the level, and the move away from it is fed by them being taken out.

H1 execution · the level from H4 or D1Price action · Reversal
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: ModerateBeginner

New 20-Day High Continuation

the oldest systematic trade there is

Buy a new twenty-day high. Sell a new twenty-day low. There is no filter, no oscillator and no opinion, and versions of this have been traded since the 1960s.

D1 only · held for weeksSwing · Breakout
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Pyramiding a Daily Trend

add to it, but only with the market's money

Every page in this book so far takes one position and manages it. This one takes a small position and adds to it as the trend pays, so the largest exposure sits on the trade that has already proven itself.

D1 · the underlying trend signal can be any of the trend pages in this librarySwing · Position building
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Risk-Off Safe Haven Entry

buying gold on the day equities break

Gold's reputation as a safe haven is half deserved, and the half that is deserved is very specific. Baur and Lucey's work drew the distinction that matters: a hedge is uncorrelated on average, a safe haven is uncorrelated exactly when equities fall hard. Gold is both, but the safe-haven behaviour lasts days, not months.

D1 signal · held two to five daysGold · Risk aversion

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.