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.
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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.
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.
Doji, hammer, shooting star, morning star, three white soldiers. There are dozens of named patterns, thousands of courses teaching them, and remarkably little evidence that any of them predicts anything on its own.
Before any structure strategy can be traded it has to be possible to say, mechanically, where the swing points are. Almost nobody does this, which is why two traders looking at one chart disagree about whether structure has broken.
A scalp targeting six pips on a pair with a one-pip spread and a round-turn commission worth another 0.7 pips is not a six-pip trade. It is a 4.3-pip trade, and the stop has to absorb the same 1.7 pips on the other side.
This is not a trade. It is the rule that decides when none of your other strategies are allowed to be in the market, and it belongs in this book because the same research that makes news tradeable is what makes it dangerous to everything else.
A challenge gives you a profit target and a maximum loss. Almost everybody optimises for the target. The arithmetic says to optimise for the loss, because the target can be reached late and the loss can only be breached once.
The version almost every retail trader actually runs: pick one pair with a positive swap, hold it, collect the nightly credit. It is in the library because people trade it, and the page exists mostly to be honest about what it is.
The simplest exit there is: measure the distance to your stop, call it 1R, and place the target at a fixed multiple of it. Two R, three R — the number is a choice, but it is made once and applied to every trade.
Take half off at a modest multiple, move the stop to break even, let the rest run. It is probably the most widely used management rule in retail trading and it is worth being precise about what it does.
The mechanism has peer-reviewed, FX-specific research behind it.
The mechanism is sound, but at least one step of it is untested.
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.
One instrument, one timeframe, every rule visible on the chart.
Several conditions have to line up, and execution starts to matter.
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.
Reading the library is free. A plan is what lets you turn one into a robot.
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.
