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Stage 6: Find Your Strategy

Discover what kind of trader you are and which strategies fit how you think.

Latest Articles from Stage 6: Find Your Strategy

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Breakout Trading Part 1: What Is Breakout Trading?

Breakout trading is exactly what it sounds like: trading the moment when price moves through a significant level with momentum. It's one of the most intuitive strategies available and one of the most commonly misapplied. Here's what it is at its clearest.

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Building Your FX Watchlist

A watchlist is not just a list of markets to watch. It's a decision about where to concentrate your attention and build expertise. Watching too many instruments spreads attention thin; watching too few limits opportunity. The process of building a focused, deliberate watchlist is part of building a trading approach that's actually sustainable.

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The Strategy Fit Audit: Which Approach Matches How You Think?

Most traders pick a strategy based on what they've seen on YouTube. This audit helps you choose one based on something more reliable: how your brain actually works.

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What Even Counts as a Trading Strategy?

Before exploring individual strategies, it's worth asking a more fundamental question: what actually counts as a trading strategy? The answer shapes everything.

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Why Strategy Fit Matters More Than Strategy Performance

Why matching a strategy to your cognitive style matters more than finding the 'best' one.

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How This Series Is Organized (And How to Use It)

A map of the 16 trading strategies covered in this series, organized by level and cognitive demand.

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Breakout trading is exactly what it sounds like: trading the moment when price moves through a significant level with momentum. It's one of the most intuitive strategies available and one of the most commonly misapplied. Here's what it is at its clearest.

Updated on Jun 11, 2026

The content is organized in two ways: by topic and by learning level. Topics are things like chart patterns, risk management, and trading psychology. Learning levels describe how deeply you're engaging with those topics — and they follow a specific sequence, because that sequence matters.

Updated on Jun 8, 2026

A stack of six books on candle patterns with a sign on top that reminds us that books are not the way to go. Then a monitor with a chart on it looking at the candles in context. Only looking for the five main candles.

There are over 60 named candlestick patterns. Most of them don't matter. Here's the short list of patterns that consistently carry information — and what they're actually telling you about the market.

Updated on Jun 11, 2026