Manual Strategies

Eight moving average crossover pairs run over the same 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. Seven lost money. Only EMA 50/200 finished profitable, and the trend filter made things worse.

I tested 1,075 Stochastic overbought and oversold signals on real EURUSD 5-minute data. Win rate, average pips, and the two changes that made the setup positive.

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.