// PLAYBOOK
Read the candles. Trade the volatility.
Pattern recognition, volatility regimes and battle-tested binary strategies — all in one playbook.
// 01 · CANDLESTICKS
Patterns that move price.
8 patterns · 90s expiry recommended
Bullish Engulfing
CALLLarge green body swallows prior red — momentum flip up.
Bearish Engulfing
PUTLarge red body swallows prior green — momentum flip down.
Hammer
CALLLong lower wick after downtrend — buyers reject lows.
Shooting Star
PUTLong upper wick at top — sellers reject highs.
Doji
CALLIndecision candle. Trade the next confirmation.
Morning Star
CALLThree-candle reversal at the bottom of a downtrend.
Evening Star
PUTThree-candle reversal at the top of an uptrend.
Three Soldiers
CALLThree consecutive green closes — strong continuation.
// 02 · VOLATILITY
Know the regime before you click.
Low volatility
Tight ranges, mean reversion works. Trade reversals at S/R.
Normal
Trend-following sweet spot. Use moving average crosses.
High volatility
News and CPI prints. Short expiries, ride momentum.
// 03 · STRATEGIES
Six setups. One contract.
Momentum breakout
trend · 1m
Enter CALL on close above prior swing high with rising volume.
Mean reversion
range · 5m
Fade extremes inside an established range using RSI confirmation.
News scalp
event · 30s
Trade the immediate spike, exit before volatility crush.
Pin bar reversal
pattern · 1m
Trade rejection wicks against the daily pivot levels.
EMA stacking
trend · 15m
Enter in direction of stacked EMAs on the 1m close.
Bollinger squeeze
volatility · 5m
Bands contract then expand — trade the breakout direction.
S/R bounce
level · 5m
Trade clean rejections at horizontal support or resistance.
MACD crossover
trend · 15m
Enter on MACD line crossing signal line with histogram flip.
Stochastic divergence
reversal · 5m
Price makes new high/low but stochastic fails to confirm.
Fibonacci retracement
pullback · 15m
Trade pullbacks to golden ratio inside a trending market.
VWAP reclaim
intraday · 5m
Enter when price reclaims VWAP and retests it as support.
Order block retest
smc · 15m
Trade rejections from institutional order blocks on retest.
Tick momentum
scalp · 30s
Ride micro-trends — enter on three consecutive tick direction.
Liquidity sweep
scalp · 1m
Trade reversals after price sweeps obvious stop clusters.
Imbalance fill
scalp · 1m
Enter into fair value gaps left by aggressive moves.
Opening range break
scalp · 1m
Trade breakouts of the first 15-minute range with volume.
Wyckoff spring
accum · 1h
Enter CALL after a failed breakdown from an accumulation range.
SMC · BOS/CHoCH
structure · 15m
Trade in the new structural direction after BOS or change of character.
Volume profile POC
profile · 1h
Fade or follow the point of control on the volume profile.
Funding rate fade
perps · 4h
Counter-trade crowded perp positioning when funding gets extreme.
// 04 · SYNTHETICS
Playbook for synthetic indices.
Volatility, Boom/Crash, Jump, Step and Range Break indices behave differently from real markets. These setups are tuned for their statistical signatures.
Vol EMA stack
trend · 1m
Trade in the stacked-EMA direction on Volatility 75 and 100 — consistent tick frequency makes EMAs reliable.
Vol mean reversion
range · 5m
Lower-volatility indices respect Bollinger bands. Fade the extremes on Vol 10 and Vol 25.
Vol burst scalp
scalp · 30s
Ride the burst on high-vol indices — exit before the inevitable mean reversion.
Boom spike follow
spike · 1m
Boom indices spike up randomly then drift. Enter CALL right after a spike tick — momentum continues.
Crash spike fade
spike · 1m
Crash indices drift up then spike down. Time PUTs when tick count since last spike exceeds the average interval.
Spike avoidance
scalp · 30s
Trade only the first 30s after a spike — probability of another spike is near zero, so short expiries are safe.
Jump breakout
breakout · 2m
Jump indices include occasional 30x normal candles. Trade in the jump direction on the following bar.
Jump momentum
trend · 1m
Combine MACD crossover with a recent jump candle for high-conviction directional entries.
Step flip
binary · 60s
Step indices move +/- 0.1 with equal probability. Bet on streak reversal after 5 same-direction steps.
Step Kelly sizing
math · 60s
Use Kelly criterion on small-edge step setups — sizing matters more than entry on near-50% strategies.
Range break trigger
breakout · 3m
Range Break indices stay in a range then break. Enter on the first close outside the range with momentum.
Range pre-break
anticipation · 2m
Bollinger band squeeze inside the range signals imminent break — pre-position in the squeeze direction.