Trading strategies
Methods written as rules with chart examples and evidence. Named by how they work.
Range-low sweep and reclaim: the stop-hunt reversal — A range-low sweep and reclaim is a stop-hunt reversal. Price pushes below an obvious low where resting stop-losses and long liquidations si…
20-bar range breakout with a 10-bar trailing exit — The 20-bar range breakout is the oldest trend-following rule still in use: buy when price closes above the highest high of the last 20 bars…
Bollinger squeeze breakout: trading the volatility expansion — The Bollinger squeeze breakout trades the transition from low volatility to high volatility. Bollinger Bands (a 20-bar moving average with …
30-minute opening-range breakout: why the 00:00 UTC version loses — The opening-range breakout is a stock-market method that gets copied onto crypto without checking whether crypto has an "open". The rule: m…
RSI(14) mean reversion: the numbers nobody shows you — RSI mean reversion buys "oversold" and sells "overbought". RSI(14) measures the ratio of recent up-closes to down-closes on a 0 to 100 scal…
Funding-rate carry: the market-neutral benchmark every leverage trade must beat — Funding-rate carry is the market-neutral trade behind most "delta-neutral yield" products. Perpetual futures have no expiry, so exchanges k…
Trend pullback to the 20 EMA: an entry technique, not a strategy — The trend pullback to the 20 EMA is the standard "buy the dip in an uptrend" rule. A 20-period exponential moving average tracks the short-…
Extreme-funding fade: trading against the crowded side — The extreme-funding fade is a positioning trade. The 8-hour funding rate on perpetuals is a direct reading of which side is crowded: when l…