Trading Strategies

Breakouts, mean reversion, trading styles and how to test them.

  • Backtesting and Forward-Testing a Strategy
    Advanced · 7 min read
    How to test a trading strategy before real money is at stake: write testable rules, backtest on past charts, measure expectancy after costs, and forward-test on demo first.
  • Scaling In/Out, Trailing Stops and Partial Take-Profit
    Advanced · 7 min read
    How to build and reduce positions in pieces, bank partial profits and trail a stop by hand on Traders Portal, with worked USDT examples and the trade-offs of each technique.
  • Scalping vs Day Trading vs Swing Trading
    Advanced · 8 min read
    How scalping, day trading and swing trading differ in holding time, costs, stop size, screen time and stress, with worked USDT numbers to help you pick a style that fits.
  • Breakout vs Mean Reversion Strategies
    Advanced · 8 min read
    Two opposite ways to trade the same chart: when breakouts tend to work, when mean reversion does, where the stops go, and how to tell which kind of market you are in.
  • Smart Money Concepts: Liquidity, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps
    Advanced · 7 min read
    A balanced guide to smart money concepts: liquidity sweeps, structure breaks, order blocks and fair value gaps, how traders apply them, and their real limits.
  • Price Action Trading Without Indicators
    Advanced · 7 min read
    Read structure, key levels and candle signals straight from the chart, then turn them into a trade with a defined entry, stop and target, worked through in USDT.
  • Building a Trading Plan and Journal
    Intermediate · 8 min read
    Write a one-page trading plan with clear risk, entry and exit rules, then keep a journal that turns your closed trades into numbers you can learn from.
  • Risk/Reward Ratio and Win Rate: The Math of Profitability
    Intermediate · 7 min read
    How the risk/reward ratio and win rate work together, the break-even win rate for any ratio, expectancy, and how trading costs shift the numbers.
  • Multi-Timeframe Analysis
    Intermediate · 7 min read
    How to read a market top-down across three timeframes: the higher one for trend, the middle for setups and the lower for entries, with a worked example.
  • Long vs Short: Profiting From Rising and Falling Markets
    Beginner · 7 min read
    Going long means you gain when a price rises; going short means you gain when it falls. See how both work on the platform, the math in USDT, and the risks that differ.

Trading CFDs and crypto involves a high risk of losing money quickly because of leverage. You can lose all the funds in your account. This article is for education only and is not financial advice; past performance does not indicate future results.