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Scalping, day trading, swing, position trading, carry trade, breakout — what suits whom and how to measure performance.

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Scalping — what is it and does it make sense for retail?9 min →Three trading approaches: trend, range and breakout rules10 min →Swing trading: holding time, planned risk and financing8 min →Day trading vs position trading — which style for you?8 min →Consolidation — price paths, boundaries and cost checks8 min →Martingale in forex — doubling costs and account constraints10 min →Mean reversion — the return-to-the-mean strategy8 min →News trading — spread, stop triggers and actual fills7 min →Order blocks — zone rules, first touch and honest testing7 min →Currency correlation, pairs trading and arbitrage: three different concepts8 min →Range trading — fixed bounds, decision time and net costs7 min →Trade exit strategy — when to close a forex position8 min →Position trader vs day trader — which style suits you best7 min →Trading edge — how to find and validate a real one8 min →Trade management — what to do after you are in8 min →Setup checklist — your go/no-go list before entering7 min →Asymmetric trades: reward, net expectancy and position weights8 min →What is the carry trade — earning on the rate differential8 min →AB=CD strategy: compatible ratios, execution and net results9 min →Deep crab pattern — the deeper variant of Carney's crab9 min →Nen Star — checking a detector’s rules, anchors and timing8 min →Ten candlestick patterns: recognition, measurements and limits8 min →5-0 pattern: Carney’s ratios and two D measurements8 min →News versus technical rules — data, timing and fair comparison10 min →Scalping vs day trading — seconds or hours in the trade?10 min →Evening Star: body gaps, penetration and detector distinctions7 min →Morning star — three candles, gaps and a stated Close condition7 min →Butterfly pattern — harmonic X-A-B-C-D reversal beyond point X9 min →Wedge patterns: slopes, timing and execution costs8 min →Heikin-Ashi — "average bar" candles for reading the trend8 min →RSI divergence — confirmed pivots, timing and trade arithmetic7 min →Three white soldiers: OHLC rules, body ratios and detector limits7 min →Donchian channel: breakout windows, Turtle rules and execution8 min →OBV on-balance volume — the volume indicator on forex6 min →CHoCH and BOS: direction, pivot confirmation and signal timing7 min →ABCD pattern — a trading guide to the harmonic building block8 min →Smart money concepts (SMC) — market mechanics explained8 min →Three black crows: OHLC rules, examples and detector differences7 min →Breaker block in SMC — a failed order block flips role7 min →Andrews' pitchfork — Alan Andrews' median-line method7 min →Schiff pitchfork — Andrews' fork with a shifted origin6 min →Renko charts — a price-based brick chart, not a time-based one8 min →Bullish and bearish engulfing: body rules, execution and costs7 min →Kagi charts — a price-based Japanese chart, not a time-based one7 min →Three Line Break: line state, source data and execution pitfalls7 min →Volume profile: bins, POC and explicit Value Area rules7 min →Wolfe Wave: point confirmation, EPA and ETA geometry7 min →Bullish and bearish harami: bodies, shadows and full OHLC8 min →Three Drives: projection ratios, time symmetry and recognition7 min →Gartley pattern — the original harmonic formation at 0.786 XA9 min →Bat pattern — harmonic X–A–B–C–D with D at 0.886 XA8 min →Crab pattern — Scott Carney harmonic X-A-B-C-D reversal9 min →Cypher pattern — Darren Oglesbee's harmonic formation7 min →Piercing line and dark cloud cover — two-candle reversals7 min →Shark pattern — Carney's O-X-A-B-C harmonic reversal8 min →Spinning top and doji — geometry, detector rules and OHLC examples7 min →Inverted hammer and shooting star — one shape, two signals8 min →Abandoned Baby: doji, full gaps and data checks7 min →Three Inside Up and Down: bodies, close thresholds and variants7 min →Three Outside Up and Down: body edges, color and third closes6 min →Three Stars in the South: bodies, shadows and exact boundaries7 min →Upside Gap Three Methods: body gaps, boundaries and Tasuki8 min →Downside gap three methods — three-candle bearish pattern9 min →Head and shoulders — the classic trend-reversal pattern9 min →Double top and double bottom — classic reversal patterns8 min →Harmonic patterns: XABCD ratios, PRZ and measurement checks8 min →Hammer: candle shape, context and execution8 min →Inside bar — the breakout strategy from the inside candle13 min →Breakout strategy — a complete how-to guide8 min →Momentum trading — how to trade trend strength12 min →Gap trading — how price gaps work in theory and practice9 min →Swing trading on a 2-7 day horizon — a step-by-step process8 min →Trend following: Donchian windows, execution and a worked test8 min →Pre-trade checklist — ten checks and a cost-aware position model11 min →How to write a trading plan — step-by-step template10 min →