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A catalogue of well-known trading ideas

47 strategy templates across trend-following, breakouts, momentum, mean reversion and more. Each one is a starting point you can backtest, adjust and paper trade.

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Institutional trend
Long-term trend
Market filter
Mean reversion
Momentum
Moving-average crossover
Price action
Pullback
Quantitative
Relative strength
Trend following
Volatility breakout
Volume breakout
Momentum

52-Week High Momentum

52-Week High Momentum is a position-trading momentum strategy with strong academic backing: it buys stocks printing new 52-week highs and rides them, exiting only when the trend breaks belo…

Trend following

ADX Directional Movement

ADX Directional Movement is a trend-strength strategy built on Wilder's Directional Movement system.

Institutional trend

Anchored VWAP Breakout

Anchored VWAP is a favourite of professional traders: instead of averaging price from an arbitrary session start (plain VWAP), it anchors the volume-weighted average price to a significant …

Pullback

Anchored VWAP Pullback

Anchored VWAP Pullback is a pullback strategy that buys a shallow dip back toward the VWAP anchored at a significant low, while the institutional trend off that low is still intact — rather…

Trend following

ATR Trailing Stop

ATR Trailing Stop is a trend-following strategy built around one core idea: instead of exiting on a fixed price distance or a second, independent signal, it holds the position for as long a…

Mean reversion

Bollinger Mean Reversion

Bollinger Mean Reversion is a contrarian, mean-reversion strategy for range-bound markets.

Volatility breakout

Bollinger Squeeze Breakout

Bollinger Squeeze Breakout is a volatility breakout strategy for the low-volatility → trending transition.

Breakout

Breakout Swing

Breakout Swing enters a long trade when price closes above recent resistance with confirming momentum and volume, and exits when price closes below recent support with the opposite confirma…

Trend following

Chandelier Exit

Chandelier Exit is a trend-following strategy that pairs a simple trend filter for entry with a volatility-based trailing stop for exit.

Mean reversion

Connors RSI

Connors RSI is a mean-reversion strategy for range-bound markets on daily bars.

Breakout

Darvas Box Breakout

The Darvas Box is Nicolas Darvas's classic momentum method: a stock consolidates inside a "box" (a ceiling that holds and a floor that holds), then breaks out of the top - and Darvas bought…

Trend following

Donchian Turtle Breakout

Donchian Turtle Breakout is the classic "Turtle Trading" system: buy when price makes a new N-bar high, and get out either on a new (shorter) M-bar low or when a volatility-scaled trailing …

Momentum

Elder Impulse System

The Elder Impulse System is Dr. Alexander Elder's momentum strategy for trending markets on daily bars.

Trend following

EMA Ribbon

A long-only trend-following strategy built on four exponential moving averages (20/50/100/200) stacked in strictly bullish order.

Long-term trend

Golden Cross + Volume

The Golden Cross is one of the most widely watched long-term trend signals: when a stock's 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day moving average, it marks the start of a durable up…

Trend following

Heikin Ashi Trend

A candle-reversal strategy built on Heikin Ashi - a synthetic candle series that smooths raw OHLC data by blending each candle with the one before it.

Trend following

Ichimoku Cloud

A trend-following strategy built on Ichimoku Kinko Hyo ("one glance equilibrium chart") - a Japanese composite indicator with five interrelated lines rather than one numeric value.

Price action

Inside Bar Breakout

Inside Bar Breakout is a simple price-action strategy.

Trend following

KAMA Trend

KAMA Trend follows trends using Kaufman's Adaptive Moving Average as the trend line.

Trend following

Keltner Channel

A volatility-based breakout-continuation strategy built on the Keltner Channel - an ATR-scaled band wrapped around an EMA.

Quantitative

Linear Regression Trend

Linear Regression Trend is a quantitative trend-following strategy for trending markets on daily bars.

Momentum

MACD Histogram Reversal

MACD Histogram Reversal is a momentum strategy that trades the MACD histogram crossing zero.

Market filter

Market Breadth Filter

Market Breadth Filter is not a standalone entry system - it is a regime filter that wraps another strategy. The premise: a signal is only worth taking when the broad market is behind it.

Market filter

Market Regime Filter

Market Regime Filter is not a standalone entry system - it is a regime filter that wraps another strategy. The premise: most strategies have a market they work in and a market they bleed in.

Trend following

Minervini Trend Template

The Minervini Trend Template is Mark Minervini's checklist for identifying stocks in a confirmed Stage-2 uptrend - the kind of high-quality market leaders his SEPA methodology buys.

Momentum

Momentum

Momentum enters a long trade only when four independent signals agree that a move is real and accelerating - trend direction (EMA), raw price change (ROC), strength (RSI), and momentum-of-m…

Volatility breakout

NR7 Breakout

NR7 Breakout is a volatility-breakout strategy that plays the classic "low volatility precedes high volatility" idea.

Breakout

Opening Drive

Opening Drive is an intraday breakout strategy for day trading on 1-minute to 15-minute bars.

Breakout

Opening Range Breakout

Opening Range Breakout (ORB) is an intraday strategy.

Volume breakout

Pocket Pivot

The Pocket Pivot is Gil Morales and Chris Kacher's early-entry setup: it detects institutional accumulation inside a base, before the obvious breakout.

Moving-average crossover

Precision SMA

Precision SMA is a stricter cousin of SMA Crossover: it doesn't just check whether the short average is above the long one, it requires an actual crossover event to have just happened, and …

Pullback

Pullback Swing

Pullback Swing buys a dip within an established uptrend, rather than chasing new highs.

Relative strength

Relative Rotation Graph (RRG)

The Relative Rotation Graph is a relative strength strategy for portfolio management on weekly bars — the classic tool for sector rotation.

Relative strength

Relative Strength

Relative Strength buys the market's leaders: stocks that are outperforming a benchmark index while in an uptrend, and sells them once they stop leading.

Volume breakout

Relative Volume Breakout

Relative Volume Breakout is a volume breakout strategy for trending markets.

Mean reversion

RSI Mean-Reversion

RSI Mean-Reversion is a contrarian strategy: it buys after a stretch of selling has pushed RSI into oversold territory, betting on a bounce, and sells once RSI recovers into overbought terr…

Volume breakout

SC Momentum Breakout

SC Momentum Breakout ("SC" for small-cap) enters when price breaks out above its recent high on above-average volume - a classic breakout-with-confirmation entry.

Relative strength

Sector Rotation

Sector Rotation is a relative strength strategy for portfolio management on weekly bars — the classic institutional discipline of holding whichever sectors are beating the market and rotati…

Trend following

SMA Crossover

SMA Crossover enters a long trade when a short-period moving average rises above a longer-period moving average (an uptrend signal) and exits when the short average falls back below the lon…

Trend following

SuperTrend

A long-only trend-following strategy built on the SuperTrend indicator - an ATR-based trailing band that flips between acting as resistance (bearish) and support (bullish) as price crosses …

Momentum

Three-Bar Play

The Three-Bar Play trades continuation after a controlled pullback.

Trend following

Trend Following

Trend Following only enters once four conditions agree that a genuine, strong uptrend is underway - price above the mid-length trend line, not so far above it that a pullback entry would be…

Volatility breakout

TTM Squeeze

The TTM Squeeze is John Carter's signature volatility-breakout setup and one of the most popular breakout strategies going.

Breakout

Volatility Contraction Pattern (VCP)

The Volatility Contraction Pattern is Mark Minervini's signature setup: a stock in an uptrend builds a base through a series of progressively smaller pullbacks - each contraction tighter th…

Volume breakout

Volume Dry-Up Breakout

Volume Dry-Up Breakout trades one of the cleanest accumulation signals there is: a base where volume contracts to a fraction of its normal level - sellers have finished selling and nobody i…

Breakout

Volume Profile Breakout

Volume Profile Breakout is a trending, swing strategy built on an institutional concept: the Point of Control (POC) — the price level where the most volume has traded over a recent window.

Pullback

VWAP Pullback

VWAP Pullback is an pullback strategy that buys a shallow dip back toward VWAP inside an established uptrend, rather than chasing a breakout.

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