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 1–8 of 8 matching strategies

Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Donchian Channel Breakout

Turtle System 1 & 2

When price closes above the highest high of the previous N bars, you take a position in that direction. In the Turtle programme, System 1 was a 20-bar breakout and System 2 a 55-bar one.

D1 primary · H4 secondaryTrend Following · Breakout
Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Dual EMA Crossover

with EMA-200 regime filter

The crossover of the 20 and 50 EMAs gives direction. The 200 EMA is a regime filter — you trade only in the direction the long-term slope agrees with.

H4 primary · D1 secondaryTrend Following · Indicator-based
Evidence: StrongIntermediate

Time-Series Momentum

sign of the 12-month own return

Each instrument's own past twelve-month return predicts its future return. A positive sign means long, negative means short, with the position sized by inverse volatility.

D1 data · MONTHLY rebalanceTrend Following · Statistical
Evidence: WeakIntermediate

ADX Trend-Strength Filtered DI Entry

Wilder DMI system

ADX measures the strength of a trend, not its direction. Direction comes from the crossover of +DI and −DI.

H4 · D1Trend Following · Indicator-based
Evidence: WeakIntermediate

Ichimoku Kumo Breakout

all four conditions

The cloud is a forward-projected zone of consensus price. Inside it is equilibrium; a close outside it is a rejection of that equilibrium.

D1 primary · H4 secondaryTrend Following · Multi-indicator
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

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

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.