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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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.
Some strategies pass challenges easily and some do not, and it has little to do with how profitable they are. A method with a high hit rate and modest winners produces a smooth curve that clears a target without ever approaching the floor. A trend method with the same annual return arrives in three trades and spends the rest of the time in drawdown.
A large share of failed evaluations are not losing accounts. They are profitable accounts that broke an operational rule — a position held over a restricted period, a trade placed around a restricted event, a lot size above a cap, a strategy the firm does not allow.
Passing changes the objective completely. During an evaluation the goal is to reach a target once. On a funded account the goal is to produce a payout repeatedly without ever breaching a loss rule that usually still applies.
Before a single trade, a challenge is a purchase. You pay a fee for the option to trade someone else's capital under constraints, and whether that is a good purchase is a calculation you can do in advance.
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 standard three-timeframe structure, written out properly. The daily chart decides whether you may trade and in which direction. The four-hour decides where. The fifteen-minute decides when.
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.
The stop hangs a fixed number of average true ranges below the highest high the trade has reached — so it rises as the trade works and never falls. The distance adapts to the market's own volatility rather than to a round number of pips.
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.
