Trading Strategies Reference Directory
Quantitative trading strategies list.
Browse 63 StratCraft strategy references across 9 categories. Each page explains the setup logic, market suitability, risk controls, and the path from reading to backtesting.
Strategy Category Guides
Deep-dive guides by trading logic.
Momentum Trading
Cross-sectional and time-series momentum approaches
Mean Reversion
Statistical mean-reversion and pairs trading
Breakout Trading
Channel breakout and volatility expansion strategies
Indicator-Based
Technical indicator signal and filter strategies
Factor & Alpha
Multi-factor models, value, quality, and low-volatility
Arbitrage
Statistical arbitrage, pairs, and relative-value
Market Making
Bid-ask spread capture and inventory management
Machine Learning
Tree models, neural networks, and feature engineering
Reinforcement Learning
DQN, policy gradient, and reward-shaped agents
MACD Momentum
MACD-based momentum signal with Backtrader
Library
Strategies grouped by trading logic.
Trend Following
Strategies that define a directional regime, wait for continuation evidence, and trail risk while the move persists.
SMA Crossover Strategy
Visual reference for SMA Crossover Strategy: Fast and slow simple moving averages, SMA crossover, slow-average slope and price confirmation, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
MACD Trend Following Strategy
Visual reference for MACD Trend Following Strategy: MACD line, signal line, and histogram, MACD bullish or bearish cross, zero-line location and histogram expansion, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Donchian Channel Breakout Strategy
Visual reference for Donchian Channel Breakout Strategy: Donchian upper and lower price channels, breakout beyond the channel boundary, channel width and higher-timeframe direction, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Keltner Channel Strategy
Visual reference for Keltner Channel Strategy: EMA midline with ATR-based channel bands, close outside the Keltner channel, ATR expansion and midline slope, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
ADX Trend Strength Filter Strategy
Visual reference for ADX Trend Strength Filter Strategy: ADX with positive and negative directional movement, directional movement alignment with elevated ADX, ADX threshold and DI dominance, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Heikin-Ashi Trend Strategy
Visual reference for Heikin-Ashi Trend Strategy: Heikin-Ashi smoothed candle sequence, color continuation with minimal opposing wick, candle body consistency and trend slope, entries, exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
EMA Crossover Strategy
Visual guide to the EMA Crossover strategy: mastering Golden Crosses, Death Crosses, momentum shifts, and trend-following risk management.
Turtle Trading Strategy
Visual guide to the legendary Turtle Trading rules: 20/55-day breakouts, ATR-based position sizing (N), and systematic pyramid entries.
Supertrend
Visual guide to the Supertrend indicator trading strategy: ATR-based trend direction, entry/exit signals, dynamic trailing stops, and risk management.
Ichimoku Cloud Strategy
Visual guide to mastering the Ichimoku Cloud strategy: Kumo breakouts, Tenkan Sen crosses, Chikou Span confirmation, and trend-following rules.
Parabolic SAR + EMA
Visual guide to the Parabolic SAR and EMA combined trading strategy: trend-reversal entries, trailing stops, exit rules, and risk management.
ADX + Directional Movement Index
Visual guide to the ADX and DMI combined trading strategy: trend-strength filtering, directional entry signals, exit rules, and risk management.
ATR Volatility Breakout
Visual guide to the ATR volatility breakout trading strategy: Keltner Channel breakouts, ATR trailing stops, position sizing, and risk management.
Dual Thrust Strategy
Visual guide to Dual Thrust breakout rules: calculating Range, BuyLine, and SellLine thresholds for systematic trend following.
R-Breaker Strategy
Visual guide to R-Breaker intraday rules: calculating Bbreak, Ssetup, Senter levels, and executing breakout vs. reversal setups.
Trend Channel System
Visual guide to Trend Channels: drawing parallel support and resistance, trading midline mean reversion, and mastering channel breakouts.
Dolphin Trading Strategy
Visual guide to the Dolphin Trading system: Synchronizing H1, M30, and M15 trends using MA and MACD.
Escalator Trading Strategy
Visual guide to the Escalator Trading system: Using EMA 8/13/21 stacks and ATR trailing stops for steady trend following.
Fibonacci Trend Strategy
Visual guide to mastering the Fibonacci Retracement strategy: identifying the Golden Pocket, swing anchors, extensions, and precise risk management.
Oliver Kell EMA Strategy
Visual guide to Oliver Kell momentum rules: base breakouts, 10/20 EMA support, extension exhaustion, and US Investing Champion tactics.
Mean Reversion
Strategies that look for statistically stretched prices, exhaustion, or relative-value dislocations returning toward a baseline.
Bollinger Band Mean Reversion Strategy
Visual reference for Bollinger Band Mean Reversion Strategy: Bollinger moving-average midline, close outside the upper or lower Bollinger Band, band squeeze, trend slope, and volume confirmation, entries, exits, and tail-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
RSI Overbought/Oversold Strategy
Visual reference for RSI Overbought/Oversold Strategy: RSI neutral zone and recent price range, RSI crossing below oversold or above overbought thresholds, range regime, divergence, and failed breakout behavior, entries, exits, and tail-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Pairs Trading Strategy
Visual reference for Pairs Trading Strategy: cointegrated or historically correlated spread, spread deviation beyond the tested entry threshold, correlation stability, borrow availability, and beta neutrality, entries, exits, and tail-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Z-Score Mean Reversion Strategy
Visual reference for Z-Score Mean Reversion Strategy: rolling mean and standard deviation, z-score exceeding the positive or negative entry band, stable rolling window and non-trending volatility regime, entries, exits, and tail-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Strategy
Visual reference for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Strategy: estimated long-run OU equilibrium level, model-implied deviation from the equilibrium mean, stable half-life and residual diagnostics, entries, exits, and tail-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
RSI + Moving Average
Visual guide to the RSI + Moving Average combined trading strategy: momentum signals, trend filtering, entry/exit rules, and risk management flow.
Bollinger Bands + MACD
Visual guide to the Bollinger Bands + MACD combined trading strategy: signal logic, entry/exit rules, and confirmation flow.
Stochastic + Bollinger Bands
Visual guide to the Stochastic Oscillator and Bollinger Bands combined trading strategy: mean-reversion setups, squeeze breakouts, entry/exit rules, and risk management flow.
Gap Trading Strategy
Visual guide to Gap Trading: understanding Breakaway, Runaway, and Exhaustion gaps, plus Gap and Go vs. Gap Fill execution rules.
Momentum
Strategies that rank or follow strength after price, return, or oscillator evidence shows persistent directional pressure.
Relative Strength Strategy
Visual reference for Relative Strength Strategy: relative return ranking versus peers, top-ranked assets maintaining positive relative performance, liquidity, sector concentration, and benchmark trend alignment, exits, and reversal-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Time-Series Momentum Strategy
Visual reference for Time-Series Momentum Strategy: absolute return over the selected lookback window, positive trailing return for long exposure or negative trailing return for short exposure, volatility target, trend persistence, and market regime confirmation, exits, and reversal-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Rate of Change Strategy
Visual reference for Rate of Change Strategy: price rate of change over a fixed lookback, ROC crossing above a bullish threshold or below a bearish threshold, zero-line direction, volume confirmation, and volatility expansion, exits, and reversal-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Williams %R Momentum Strategy
Visual reference for Williams %R Momentum Strategy: Williams %R close-location oscillator, Williams %R leaving an extreme zone in the direction of trend, range breakout, oscillator persistence, and higher-timeframe bias, exits, and reversal-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Momentum Factor Strategy
Visual reference for Momentum Factor Strategy: prior return factor ranking across securities, long winners and short or underweight losers after the formation window, skip-month logic, liquidity screens, and portfolio concentration limits, exits, and reversal-risk controls for systematic backtesting.
MACD + RSI Divergence
Visual guide to the MACD and RSI divergence combined trading strategy: bullish and bearish reversals, histogram setups, and rigorous risk management flow.
Dual Moving Average + Volume
Visual guide to the dual moving average and volume confirmation trading strategy: MA crossover signals, OBV validation, entry/exit rules, and risk management.
VWAP Strategy
Master the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) strategy: intraday benchmarks, standard deviation bands, mean reversion, and institutional volume flow.
Signal Fusion
Three infographics visualizing the Alpha Factory thesis: what fuses with what, how five methods produce one decision, and why the combinator is the only moat.
Grid Trading
Strategies that place systematic buy and sell levels around a range, volatility band, or asymmetric inventory plan.
Equal-Spaced Grid Strategy
Visual reference for Equal-Spaced Grid Strategy: a bounded upper and lower price range, fixed price or percentage intervals, entries, exits, inventory limits, and breakout controls for systematic backtesting.
Fibonacci Grid Strategy
Visual reference for Fibonacci Grid Strategy: a swing high-low range anchored to a recent impulse move, Fibonacci retracement and extension intervals, entries, exits, inventory limits, and breakout controls for systematic backtesting.
Asymmetric Grid Strategy
Visual reference for Asymmetric Grid Strategy: a range with directional skew or uneven liquidity zones, different intervals above and below the reference price, entries, exits, inventory limits, and breakout controls for systematic backtesting.
Dynamic Grid Strategy
Visual reference for Dynamic Grid Strategy: a rolling range that updates with recent price behavior, ATR- or volatility-adjusted intervals, entries, exits, inventory limits, and breakout controls for systematic backtesting.
Martingale Strategy
Educational guide to the Martingale system: why doubling down after losses leads to catastrophic account failure and why it is not a sound trading strategy.
Fiary Four Price Strategy
Visual guide to the Fiary Four Price intraday rules: Breakout levels based on Yesterday High/Low/Close and Today Open.
Arbitrage
Strategies that exploit pricing relationships across related instruments, venues, contracts, or corporate events.
Cash-Futures Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for Cash-Futures Arbitrage Strategy: spread measurement, hedge design, paired execution, convergence exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Calendar Spread Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for Calendar Spread Arbitrage Strategy: spread measurement, hedge design, paired execution, convergence exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Triangular Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for Triangular Arbitrage Strategy: spread measurement, hedge design, paired execution, convergence exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
ETF Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for ETF Arbitrage Strategy: spread measurement, hedge design, paired execution, convergence exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Multi-Factor
Strategies that combine persistent portfolio characteristics such as value, momentum, quality, volatility, and market exposure.
Value + Momentum Combo Strategy
Visual reference for Value + Momentum Combo Strategy: factor selection, ranking, portfolio construction, rebalance exits, and exposure controls for systematic backtesting.
Quality Factor Strategy
Visual reference for Quality Factor Strategy: factor selection, ranking, portfolio construction, rebalance exits, and exposure controls for systematic backtesting.
Low Volatility Factor Strategy
Visual reference for Low Volatility Factor Strategy: factor selection, ranking, portfolio construction, rebalance exits, and exposure controls for systematic backtesting.
Fama-French Three Factor Strategy
Visual reference for Fama-French Three Factor Strategy: factor selection, ranking, portfolio construction, rebalance exits, and exposure controls for systematic backtesting.
Event-Driven
Strategies that react to earnings, filings, mergers, news, and other catalysts where timing and downside controls dominate.
Earnings Surprise Strategy
Visual reference for Earnings Surprise Strategy: event intake, signal validation, execution timing, catalyst exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Merger Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for Merger Arbitrage Strategy: event intake, signal validation, execution timing, catalyst exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
News Sentiment Strategy
Visual reference for News Sentiment Strategy: event intake, signal validation, execution timing, catalyst exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Insider Trading Follow Strategy
Visual reference for Insider Trading Follow Strategy: event intake, signal validation, execution timing, catalyst exits, and risk controls for systematic backtesting.
Machine Learning
Strategies that train predictive models, rankings, or policies from feature sets while controlling leakage and regime drift.
Random Forest Classifier Strategy
Visual reference for Random Forest Classifier Strategy: feature design, target labels, validation, signal thresholds, execution, exits, and model-risk controls.
LSTM Price Prediction Strategy
Visual reference for LSTM Price Prediction Strategy: feature design, target labels, validation, signal thresholds, execution, exits, and model-risk controls.
Reinforcement Learning DQN Strategy
Visual reference for Reinforcement Learning DQN Strategy: feature design, target labels, validation, signal thresholds, execution, exits, and model-risk controls.
XGBoost Factor Ranking Strategy
Visual reference for XGBoost Factor Ranking Strategy: feature design, target labels, validation, signal thresholds, execution, exits, and model-risk controls.
HFT / Market Making
Strategies that depend on quote quality, inventory limits, feed sequencing, venue behavior, and tight execution assumptions.
Market Making Strategy
Visual reference for Market Making Strategy: order-book inputs, microstructure signal rules, execution, exits, queue modeling, and HFT risk controls.
Order Flow Imbalance Strategy
Visual reference for Order Flow Imbalance Strategy: order-book inputs, microstructure signal rules, execution, exits, queue modeling, and HFT risk controls.
Latency Arbitrage Strategy
Visual reference for Latency Arbitrage Strategy: order-book inputs, microstructure signal rules, execution, exits, queue modeling, and HFT risk controls.
From reference to validation
Turn a strategy idea into a backtestable workflow.
Use the reference pages to understand the assumptions, then move into StratForge to test the rules against market data before treating a signal as usable.