How these strategy pages work
Most strategy articles describe an idea and leave the details to you. These pages do the opposite. Every rule is written down precisely enough that a computer can follow it, and the free Pine Script on each page does exactly that (for the Nifty option strategies, a payoff calculator takes its place), so you can run the strategy on TradingView's price history in a couple of minutes. How much history you get depends on your plan and the timeframe: the free plan loads 5,000 candles, a few months of 5- or 15-minute candles but years of daily ones.
What you won't find is a win rate or a profit claim. Results change with the market, the dates, the data feed and the costs you pay, and a number that looked good on someone else's test says little about yours. Each page shows you how to run the test yourself instead.
| Strategy | Style | Example | Typical hold |
|---|---|---|---|
| London breakout | Session breakout | GBPUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| ICT kill zones | SMC, sweep | EURUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| Opening range breakout | Session breakout | Nifty futures, 5 min | Hours, out by 3:15 p.m. |
| Break and retest | Price action | EURUSD, 1 hour | Hours to a day |
| Liquidity sweep | SMC, reversal | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| Fair value gap | SMC, pullback | EURUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| Order block | SMC, pullback | GBPUSD, 1 hour | Hours to a day |
| BOS and CHoCH | SMC, structure | EURUSD, 1 hour | Hours to days |
| 9 and 21 EMA crossover | Trend following | EURUSD, 1 hour | Days |
| RSI 60/40 | Momentum | XAUUSD, 1 hour | Hours to days |
| XAUUSD scalping | Scalping, pullback | XAUUSD, 5 min | Minutes |
| Previous day high and low | Breakout | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| VWAP pullback | Intraday trend | Nifty futures, 5 min | Minutes to hours |
| Bollinger Bands squeeze | Volatility breakout | GBPUSD, 1 hour | Hours |
| MACD and 200 EMA | Trend pullback | USDJPY, 1 hour | Hours |
| Inside bar | Price action breakout | EURUSD, 4 hours | Days |
| Engulfing candle | Price action reversal | GBPJPY, 1 hour | Hours |
| Nifty option selling | Options, premium selling | Nifty options, Weekly expiry | Days |
| Short strangle | Options, range | Nifty options, Weekly expiry | Days |
| Long and short straddle | Options, volatility | Nifty options, Weekly expiry | Days |
| Iron condor | Options, defined risk | Nifty options, Weekly expiry | Days |
| Bull put and bear call spreads | Options, defined risk | Nifty options, Weekly expiry | Days |
| XAUUSD intraday pivots | Intraday pullback | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| XAUUSD London session | Session breakout | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| XAUUSD New York session | Session breakout | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| Gold Donchian breakout | Trend following | XAUUSD, 4 hours | Days to weeks |
| XAUUSD FVG + order block | SMC, pullback | XAUUSD, 15 min | Hours |
| XAUUSD pin bar | Price action reversal | XAUUSD, 1 hour | Hours to days |
| ADX trend following | Trend following | AUDUSD, 4 hours | Days to weeks |
| 20 and 50 EMA pullback | Trend pullback | GBPUSD, 1 hour | Hours to a day |
| Support and resistance bounce | Price action | EURUSD, 1 hour | Hours |
| ATR trailing stop (chandelier) | Trend following | USDJPY, 4 hours | Days to weeks |
| EMA and RSI(2) | Mean reversion | USDCHF, Daily | 1 to 10 days |
| RSI divergence | Reversal | EURUSD, 1 hour | Hours |
The market and timeframe are the ones used in each worked example; every script runs on others too.
How to choose a strategy
- Start with your hours. If you can only trade in the evening in India, the London–New York overlap and the New York kill zone are your window. If you're free at 9:15 a.m., the Nifty opening range is. The forex market hours clock shows the sessions live in IST.
- Match the style to your patience. Scalping means many decisions and costs that matter a lot. Trend strategies on the 1-hour chart mean fewer trades and longer waits.
- Check your account's rules. Prop firms often restrict news trading, very short trades or automated trading. Read the rules before you choose; the prop firm comparison lists them.
- Test before you trust. Backtest at least 100 trades with your real costs, then demo trade the strategy for a few weeks.
The same risk rules apply to all of them
Every strategy here sizes the trade from the stop, so the same share of the account is at risk on every trade, usually 0.5% to 1%. The lot size calculator does that sum for forex and the gold lot size calculator for XAUUSD. If you only take one thing from these pages, take that.