Trade Smarter with Proven Strategies

The Relative Vigor Index is a momentum oscillator. On eight years of gold its signal cross paid best in calm markets, and the volume filter made it worse.

Heikin Ashi smooths price so trends stand out. On eight years of gold data, three setups paid, led by a doji reversal at a 3.4 profit factor.

We ran the Chaikin Money Flow indicator on eight years of gold, EUR/USD and Bitcoin. The CMF zero-cross pays best on gold, thin on the euro, marginal on Bitcoin.

The opening range breakout is an intraday classic, but the raw box barely breaks even on gold, EUR/USD or Bitcoin. One confirmation, a volume-backed move against the trend, turns the same box into a real edge.

The Turtle Trading strategy rode breakouts to millions in the 1980s. On eight years of gold, EUR/USD and Bitcoin the long side still pays; the short side bleeds.

How to trade silver (XAG/USD): it swings twice as hard as gold, three long setups paid over eight years, and every short lost. What works and what to skip.

What is margin trading, how leverage amplifies gains and losses, and the exact math behind a margin call, with worked forex and crypto examples on a small account.

The inside bar pattern is a two-candle pause you trade on the breakout of the mother bar. Unlike most single-candle setups the raw version already pays on trending markets, and one filter lifts every one of them: heavy volume on the breakout. On silver it pushed the profit factor to 4.77. Real charts, real numbers, and why the short side fails.

On balance volume is a running tally of volume that leads price. We tested it over eight years: the raw signal is a coin flip, but as a trend confirmation it earned a 1.89 to 2.40 profit factor on gold and silver. The twist: adding a volume filter helps on Bitcoin and wrecks it on Forex.