Strategy guides
Step-by-step strategy guides from the Alice Forex/Crypto Scanner team.
StrategyFibonacci Retracement Trading Guide: Levels, Golden Zone and Targets
How to draw Fibonacci retracements correctly, which levels matter (38.2%, 50%, 61.8%), how to use the golden zone for entries and extensions for targets, with examples.
StrategyHow to Use a Market Scanner to Find Better Trades Faster
A practical guide to market scanners for crypto, forex and gold. What a scanner score means, how to filter by timeframe, how to go from a scan to a planned trade, and the pitfalls to avoid.
StrategyRSI Indicator Explained: Settings, Divergence and How to Trade It
The Relative Strength Index made simple. How RSI is calculated, what overbought and oversold really mean, the best settings, divergence, and the mistakes that cost traders money.
StrategySmart Money Concepts (SMC) for Beginners: Order Blocks, FVG and Liquidity
A clear introduction to smart money concepts. Market structure, BOS and CHoCH, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps and premium and discount zones, explained simply.
StrategySupport and Resistance: How to Draw Levels That Actually Work
A practical guide to support and resistance zones. How to find them, why they work, how to trade bounces and breakouts, and why zones beat single lines.
StrategyHead and Shoulders Pattern: How to Trade It Step by Step
Learn to spot the head and shoulders and inverse head and shoulders patterns, where to enter, where to place the stop loss and how to measure the target, with chart examples.
StrategyDouble Top and Double Bottom Patterns Explained
How to identify double top and double bottom reversal patterns, confirm them with the neckline break, and plan entry, stop loss and target on forex, crypto and gold charts.
StrategyContinuation Patterns: Flags, Pennants and Triangles
How bull flags, bear flags, pennants and ascending, descending and symmetrical triangles work, how to trade the breakout and how to measure targets.
StrategyRSI Divergence: How to Spot Trend Reversals Early
Regular and hidden RSI divergence explained with examples. Learn how to find bullish and bearish divergence, confirm it and turn it into a trade plan.
StrategyBreak and Retest Strategy: When Resistance Becomes Support
The break and retest strategy explained. How support and resistance flip, how to enter on the retest, where to put the stop and how to avoid false breakouts.
StrategyLiquidity Sweeps and Stop Hunts: How Smart Money Traps Traders
What liquidity is in trading, why price sweeps equal highs and lows, how stop hunts work and how to trade the reversal after a liquidity grab with a change of character.
StrategyTop-Down Analysis: Trading With Multiple Timeframes
How to use multiple timeframe analysis. Read the trend on the daily chart, find the setup on the 4-hour and 1-hour, and time the entry on the 15-minute chart.
StrategyThe Market Cycle: Accumulation, Markup, Distribution and Markdown
The four phases of the market cycle explained with the Wyckoff method. How to recognise accumulation and distribution and trade each phase of crypto, forex and gold trends.
StrategyMoving Averages Explained: EMA vs SMA and the Best Settings
How simple and exponential moving averages work, the 9, 21, 50 and 200 EMA, golden and death crosses, and three practical moving average strategies for forex, crypto and gold.
StrategyMACD Indicator Explained: Signal Line, Histogram and Strategies
How the MACD indicator works, what the MACD line, signal line and histogram tell you, and how to trade MACD crossovers, zero-line crosses and divergence.
StrategyBollinger Bands Strategy: Squeeze, Breakout and Mean Reversion
How Bollinger Bands work, what the squeeze tells you, how to trade breakouts and mean reversion, and how to avoid the most common Bollinger Band mistakes.