Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Bollinger Squeeze Expansion
bandwidth percentile breakoutBandwidth = (upper − lower) ÷ middle. When it sits in the bottom 20th percentile of its own 120-bar history, the squeeze is on.
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Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Rate of Change Threshold
momentum as a number, not as a crossingThe 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.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Proximity to the 52-Week High
how close to the top of the range, rather than how far it has comeA 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.
Evidence: WeakBeginner
Engulfing Bar at a Level
the most-taught candle, in the only place it means anythingA bar whose body completely covers the previous bar's body, closing in the opposite direction. Taken alone it is one of the weakest signals in retail trading — it happens constantly and predicts very little.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Failed Breakout Reversal
the break that does not stickPrice 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.
Evidence: WeakIntermediate
Order Block Retest
the last opposing candle before the moveThe 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.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
RSI(2) Extremes
the short-period oscillatorA two-period RSI is deliberately jumpy. It is not there to describe a trend — it is there to register, in one number, that the last two bars have been one-sided. Below 5 means almost everything recently has been selling.
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
Daily Range Exhaustion
the day has spent its budgetA pair has an average daily range, and most days it does not travel much further than that. When price has already covered its whole average range by mid-session, the rest of the day is more likely to be spent going sideways or giving some back than extending.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Daily Trend Pullback
buy the dip inside a trend that already existsThe most-traded idea in the market, and the one most often traded badly. A trend is running; price pauses against it; you join at the pause rather than at the extreme.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Three-Day Reversal
three closes the same way, then the turnThree consecutive daily closes in one direction is not rare, but three consecutive closes against an established uptrend is, and the fourth day resolves it one way or the other.
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.
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