Manual Strategies

I measured 224 Bollinger squeeze breakouts on real EURUSD 5-minute data. Only 39.3% continued, and the average trade lost 0.9 pips. Full session breakdown inside.

Key takeaways The median pullback went 65.5% back into the move. Not 38.2%, not 50%. Only 52.6% of impulses ever

The 3 bar reversal pattern explained: exact rules for longs and shorts, MT4 workflow, stop placement, and where this candlestick setup honestly fails.

A practitioner’s Heiken Ashi strategy guide: how to read the candles, a simple trend-following ruleset, the lag pitfall, and the trend filter that fixes it.