Trading strategies

Start with rules you can test.

A strategy is more than an entry signal. Each guide covers the market regime, timeframe, invalidation, execution constraints and failure modes you need to define before backtesting.

Risk first. Forex, CFDs, copy trading, signals and automated strategies can all lose money. Performance claims and backtests do not guarantee future results. Verify the legal entity, product availability and rules that apply in your country before funding an account.

Beginner–Intermediate

Trend Following

Trade in the direction of an established market trend instead of trying to pick the turning point.

Timeframes: 1H, 4H, Daily
Main risk: Sideways markets where repeated reversals create whipsaw losses.

Open strategy →Intermediate

Breakout Trading

Enter when price moves beyond a defined support, resistance or consolidation boundary.

Timeframes: 15M to Daily
Main risk: False breakouts, thin liquidity and chasing price too far from the invalidation level.

Open strategy →Beginner–Intermediate

Range Trading

Trade repeated reactions between established support and resistance while the market lacks a durable trend.

Timeframes: 30M, 1H, 4H
Main risk: The moment a real trend or macro repricing breaks the range.

Open strategy →Intermediate–Advanced

Mean Reversion

Look for unusually extended moves that may revert toward a statistically or technically defined average.

Timeframes: 15M to Daily
Main risk: Strong trends, crisis conditions and event-driven price discovery.

Open strategy →Beginner–Intermediate

Swing Trading

Hold trades for several sessions to capture medium-term moves without needing to monitor every intraday fluctuation.

Timeframes: 4H, Daily
Main risk: Overleveraging positions held through overnight gaps, rate decisions or major economic releases.

Open strategy →Advanced

Forex Scalping

Take many short-duration trades that target relatively small price movements.

Timeframes: 1M, 5M, 15M
Main risk: Wide spreads, slow execution, slippage, overtrading and strategy drift.

Open strategy →Advanced

Carry Trade

Seek to benefit from interest-rate differentials while also managing the currency price risk of the position.

Timeframes: Daily, Weekly
Main risk: Risk-off shocks, central-bank repricing and abrupt currency reversals.

Open strategy →Advanced

News Trading

Trade around scheduled or unexpected economic events that can rapidly reprice currencies.

Timeframes: 1M to 1H
Main risk: Blindly trading the headline while spreads expand, liquidity disappears or the market focuses on a different part of the release.

Open strategy →Intermediate

Momentum Trading

Focus on markets showing strong recent directional strength and continuation potential.

Timeframes: 15M to Daily
Main risk: Late entries after an already exhausted move.

Open strategy →Beginner–Advanced

Price Action Trading

Base decisions primarily on price structure, levels and candle behaviour rather than a large indicator stack.

Timeframes: 15M to Weekly
Main risk: Subjective pattern naming that changes after the result is known.

Open strategy →Beginner

Support & Resistance

Use areas where price previously reacted as a framework for entries, exits and invalidation.

Timeframes: 15M to Weekly
Main risk: Drawing too many levels or assuming every previous reaction must hold again.

Open strategy →Beginner

Moving-Average Crossover

Use the relationship between a faster and slower moving average as an objective trend or momentum signal.

Timeframes: 1H to Daily
Main risk: Sideways markets that generate frequent crossings.

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