Every famous strategy, honestly graded.
We didn't just read about these methods — we built each one and walk-forward tested it on 3.5 years of real Gold data, with real spreads and commissions. Most died. Here's exactly how, with the receipts. This is what a real trading education looks like: not a system to sell you, but the truth about which ones work.
Start here — the two that are simply true
Not strategies to disprove; sound mathematics every trader should own. Free, always.
Risk:Reward vs. Win-Rate
The math is real: you cannot have both a high win-rate AND a high reward:risk.
Read the lesson →Position Sizing & Survival
Survive first. Risk a small, fixed slice per trade — and you stay in the game.
Read the lesson →The one that survived
Of everything we tested, exactly one model beat its baseline out-of-sample in every regime — and it never predicts direction.
The graveyard
The strategies the gurus sell. Each taught honestly, then tested — and shown, with the real numbers, why it doesn't survive contact with real costs.
Liquidity Sweep (ICT / Smart Money)
−$6,262 over 574 trades, out-of-sample. Loses even with zero commission.
Read the lesson →Volatility Breakout
+$20k in one lucky year → −$7,700 across the full 3.5 years.
Read the lesson →Swing Trend-Following
+$8,900 total — but 86% of it came from a single week.
Read the lesson →Mean Reversion
−$205 over the full test — a statistical dead heat with the cost of trading.
Read the lesson →Indicator Signals (RSI / MACD)
Flat out-of-sample probabilities — no directional signal at all.
Read the lesson →Micro-Scalping
Structurally rigged against you by spread + commission.
Read the lesson →Order Flow & DOM Magnets
~54% accuracy ceiling — entirely eaten by costs.
Read the lesson →COT Positioning
Genuinely informative (28% importance) — but only paid off in one bear fold.
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