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 24 matching strategies

Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Opening Range Breakout

the first thirty minutes set the day

The first thirty minutes of a session is the day's only genuine two-sided auction — overnight orders, the open, and everyone who waited for it, all in one window. The high and low of that window are the two levels every intraday trader can see.

M5 execution · M15 for contextBreakout · Session
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
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

NR7 Volatility Contraction Breakout

Crabel's narrowest range of seven

NR7 means today's daily range is smaller than every one of the previous six. An objective, binary marker of maximum compression.

D1 signal · M15/M30 executionVolatility · Breakout
Evidence: ModerateBeginner

Previous Day High / Low Break and Retest

PDH / PDL liquidity levels

The 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.

D1 levels · H1 / M15 executionBreakout · Support & Resistance
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Intraday Momentum

opening period predicts closing period

The return of a session's first thirty minutes — measured from the previous session's close — predicts the return of its last thirty minutes.

M15 / M30 · NY sessionMomentum · Session
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Displacement Continuation

range and body, nothing else

Displacement is a candle with a large body and small wicks. Two mechanical gates define it: range > 1.5 × the average range of the prior twelve bars, and body ≥ 70% of that candle's range.

M5 primary · M15 secondaryMomentum · Price Action
Evidence: ModerateProfessional

Volatility-Normalised Momentum

momentum in units of its own noise

Raw momentum is a trap: a fixed percentage move is enormous in a quiet market and entirely ordinary in a volatile one. A fixed threshold has no idea which regime it is in.

M15 primary · M30 secondaryMomentum · Statistical
Evidence: StrongIntermediate

Previous-Session High / Low Sweep

liquidity taken, then reversal

Mark the previous session's high and low. Stop orders rest just above and just below those two levels.

M5 primary · M1 for entry refinement · M15 for contextPrice Action · Liquidity
Evidence: ModerateIntermediate

Break and Retest (Acceptance)

intraday level, continuation

An intraday level that price has respected two or three times. When price closes through it, comes back, and then holds on the correct side of it, the trade is continuation.

M15 primary · M5 for entry refinementPrice Action · Continuation

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.