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 42 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: 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: ModerateBeginner

Drawing Support and Resistance

rules, so that two people get the same lines

Levels are the best-supported idea in retail technical analysis and the worst-specified. Everyone agrees they matter; almost nobody writes down how to draw one, which is why two traders looking at the same chart produce different lines and then disagree about whether the level held.

Draw on D1 or H4 · trade on H1 or M15Foundations · Levels
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: ModerateBeginner

Testing a Strategy Before You Trade It

the page that decides whether any of the others are worth anything

Every page in this library ends up in the same place: you have to find out whether it works on your instrument, your timeframe, your broker and your costs. Nobody else's result answers that.

AnyFoundations · Method
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: 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

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

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.