Trading Strategies
Trend, range, breakout, price action and news approaches - how each one works, when it fails, and what it costs to run.
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How to Backtest a Trading Strategy
How to backtest a trading strategy: the six steps, why the rules must be fixed before the data is examined, what costs to include, how large a sample is meaningful,...
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Multi-Timeframe Analysis: How Traders Compare Different Charts
Multi-timeframe analysis explained: how three charts divide the work of bias, setup and entry, why the timeframes should be several times apart, and the two ways the method is misused....
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News Trading: Volatility, Slippage and Event Risk
News trading explained with its costs in front: why the spread widens and stops slip at exactly the moment of the move, why the first reaction often reverses, what a...
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Scalping Strategy: How It Works and Its Key Risks
Scalping explained honestly: how it works, why the spread is the defining constraint rather than a detail, the arithmetic of a 5-pip target against a 0.9-pip spread, and the execution...
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Price Action Trading: A Beginner's Guide
Price action trading explained: what market structure is, how swing points define trend and range, why candlestick signals need context to mean anything, and the specific ways a discretionary approach...
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Swing Trading vs Day Trading: What Is the Difference?
Swing trading vs day trading compared across holding period, cost structure, screen time and risk: why one pays swap and the other pays spread, why gap exposure differs, and how...
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Breakout Trading Strategy: How Traders Identify Price Breakouts
Breakout trading explained: what qualifies as a breakout, the trade-off between entering early and waiting for confirmation, why false breakouts are the norm rather than the exception, and how slippage...
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Range Trading Strategy: Support, Resistance and Market Conditions
Range trading explained: how a range is identified, why entries go at the edges, the high win rate and small average winner that defines the distribution, and the one risk...
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Trend Trading Strategy: How It Works and Its Risks
Trend trading explained: how a trend is defined, the two entry approaches, why the win rate is usually below half, what happens when the market stops trending, and how position...
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Trading Strategies: How to Build a Trading Approach
How to build a trading approach: the five components every strategy needs, the difference between a strategy and a setup, why the exit and the size matter more than the...