<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="57:1-57:371;6401-6771">A lot of intermediate traders are, without quite realizing it, running several different strategies at once. A breakout trade here, a mean-reversion trade there, a swing trade based on earnings, an intraday trade based on news. Each individually might be reasonable, but stacked together without a framework, it becomes almost impossible to know what's actually working.

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="59:1-59:292;6773-7064">This doesn't mean you need to pick one strategy forever. It means that at any given time, you should be able to say clearly which approach a given trade belongs to, and you should give any strategy a fair sample size &mdash; usually a minimum of 20-30 trades &mdash; before judging whether it's working.

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="61:1-61:92;7066-7157">A few broad frameworks worth considering, depending on your available time and temperament:

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="63:1-63:261;7159-7419">Trend following looks for markets already moving in a clear direction and aims to join the move, usually with wider stops and a willingness to hold through minor pullbacks. This suits traders who can tolerate being wrong often but want big wins when right.

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="65:1-65:237;7421-7657">Mean reversion looks for prices that have moved too far, too fast, betting on a snap-back toward an average. This tends to produce more frequent, smaller wins, punctuated by occasional sharp losses when the reversion doesn't happen.

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="67:1-67:220;7659-7878">Breakout trading enters when price clears a defined level of support or resistance, on the theory that the move will continue. This requires patience to wait for genuine breakouts and discipline to avoid false ones.

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="69:1-69:184;7880-8063">Event-driven trading &mdash; around earnings, economic data, or news &mdash; requires a different risk profile entirely, since volatility spikes can blow through normal stop-loss assumptions.



<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="71:1-71:260;8065-8324">Whichever framework you lean toward, Alpivesta's charting suite lets you build and save custom watchlists and screening criteria specific to that strategy, so you're not manually hunting for setups that fit your framework &mdash; the platform surfaces them for you.

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