Create Your Own Trading Strategies | Forum

There are many excellent trading strategies out there, and purchasing books or courses can save you time finding ones that work. Many traders spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars looking for a great trading strategy, but trading can also be a "do it yourself" career. Building your own can be fun, easy, and surprisingly quick. To create a strategy, you'll need access to charts that reflect the time frame to be traded, an inquisitive and objective mind, and a pad of paper to jot down your ideas. Then you formalize these ideas into a strategy and "visually backtest" them on other charts.

After you determine a set of rules that would have allowed you to enter the market to make a profit, look to those same examples and see what your risk would have been. Determine what your stops will need to be on future trades to capture profit without being stopped out. Analyze price movement after entry and see where on your Online charts a stop should be placed. When you analyze the movements, look for profitable exit points. Where was the ideal exit point, and what indicator or method could be used to capture most of this movement?