Trading Strategies

A trading strategy is a fixed set of rules that defines what you trade, when you enter, where you exit, and how much you risk -- so every decision is made before the market starts moving. Strategies fall into a few recognizable families: trend-following approaches like swing trading and pullback entries, mean-reversion and reversal methods, breakout systems that trade range expansion, and execution-intensive styles like scalping and day trading. None of them is best in the abstract; each wins in the market regime it was built for and loses outside it.

Choosing between trading strategies is mostly a matching problem: match the method to the market condition (trending, ranging, volatile), to your available screen time, and -- on a funded account -- to the firm's risk rules. A scalping approach taking dozens of trades a day behaves very differently against a daily drawdown limit than a swing position held for two weeks. The fastest way to fail a challenge is running a sound strategy in the wrong regime at the wrong size.

The guides below cover each major strategy family in depth -- day trading, swing trading, scalping, breakout, pullback, reversal, price action, and the smart-money toolkit of order blocks, fair value gaps, and supply and demand -- with entry rules, risk parameters, and the failure modes that actually end funded accounts.