Evidence: ModerateIntermediate
NR7 Volatility Contraction Breakout
Crabel's narrowest range of sevenNR7 means today's daily range is smaller than every one of the previous six. An objective, binary marker of maximum compression.
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Evidence: WeakBeginner
Inside Bar Breakout
mother bar range break, trend-gatedAn inside bar sits entirely within the previous bar's high-low range. Both conditions are required: high < mother high and low > mother low.
Evidence: ModerateBeginner
Previous Day High / Low Break and Retest
PDH / PDL liquidity levelsThe previous trading day's high and low are the most widely watched intraday levels in FX. The trade is continuation on the break of one of them.
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.
Evidence: StrongIntermediate
Daily-Momentum-Gated Pullback
documented edge, intraday executionThe edge comes from daily momentum, which has the strongest evidence behind it in FX. The M15 chart is execution only — a way to get a better price inside a permission that has already been granted.
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.
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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