--- title: 'Tier List of the 10 Best Trading Strategies for Beginners' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=HHkovT7zDx0' video_id: 'HHkovT7zDx0' date: 2026-07-29 duration_sec: 1055 --- # Tier List of the 10 Best Trading Strategies for Beginners > Source: [Tier List of the 10 Best Trading Strategies for Beginners](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HHkovT7zDx0) ## Summary The video presents a tier list ranking trading strategies for beginners, from worst (D) to best (A). It covers ten strategies including ICT, CRT, Fibonacci, session trading, and warns against excessive indicators, breakout trading, and others. ### Key Points - **Category D: Excessive Indicators** [02:02] — Using too many indicators leads to conflicting signals and confusion. This strategy is ranked D (worst) and is not recommended. - **Category C: Moving Averages** [04:11] — Moving averages are useful indicators but strategies relying solely on them are confusing due to many variations. Ranked C. - **Category C: Support and Resistance Levels** [05:37] — Trading with limit orders at support/resistance is complex and requires many confirmations. Ranked C. - **Category A: Session Strategies** [06:40] — Trading based on session opens/closes aligns with institutional liquidity. One example is the Asian range. Highly recommended, ranked A. - **Category B: CRT (Candle Ranch Theory)** [08:10] — Relatively new method blending liquidity with candlestick patterns. Works but better options exist for beginners. Ranked B. - **Category C: Trend Lines** [09:10] — Trend line trading is subjective and less reliable for beginners due to interpretation differences. Ranked C. - **Category B: Liquidity Grabs** [11:05] — Understanding liquidity is important, but focusing solely on liquidity grabs can be confusing. Ranked B. - **Category D: Excessive Indicators (Revisited)** [13:38] — Using too many indicators is the only strategy in D tier, strongly advised against. - **Category A: Fibonacci Retracements** [15:32] — Fibonacci levels are objective and naturally occurring. Used for trend continuation trading. Highly recommended, ranked A. ### Conclusion The video provides a clear tier ranking to help beginners choose trading strategies, recommending session trading and Fibonacci retracements as the best starting points. ## Transcript most profitable trading strategies that exist and that people use the most, so you don't have to waste your time looking for the best trading strategy. The goal of the video is simple: to help you discover some of the most profitable trading strategies available and decide if there are any you want to invest your time in to try and make money trading, especially if you are a beginner or still learning. Before we begin, I want to make two things clear. First, it is not about profitable, which strategy is less profitable, which strategy is better, which strategy is worse, nor about discarding strategies that do not appear in this classification. Each person can make their own ranking and each person can determine which strategy they would put higher and which strategy they would put lower. In this case, the video is aimed at teaching people who are beginners or are still learning which trading strategies can work best for them, not the most profitable, not the best, nor those with which they will earn the most money in the long term, simply those with which they can obtain better results from the beginning. For that, I'm going to classify them into different categories, from D, the worst, to A, the best, passing through worst, to A, the best, passing through C, regular, and Bena. Within category D we will have a strategy, but these are not strategies that a strategy, but these are not strategies that I recommend. Within category C we will have four strategies. These are strategies that are best avoided. In category B we will have three strategies. These are strategies that work, but there are better ones. And finally we have category A, where I will place two strategies that I highly recommend. Inner Circle Trader's own concepts is a slightly more detailed and perfectionist version, in quotes, of the institutional approach, including elements such as breakout tractor or change of character. It is a proven way of operating that we have seen can give very good results, but it requires a lot of time, effort and the concepts that are explained in many cases are specific and unique to that same way of operating, so they cannot be transferred to other ways either. Understanding this, it's not the most advisable thing for someone starting out, although as I say, in the long run it can give good results. So, trading with ICT goes straight to the number B ranking. It's a good strategy and it works, but there are better ones. Breakout trading. Breakout trading is based on finding a support zone or, as in this case, a resistance zone, and when the price breaks through that level, executing a buy order, as is the case here, because a breakout of a resistance zone is forming . The stop loss can vary based on different details of the strategy itself, and the same goes for the take profit, which is often set at a risk/reward ratio of 2 seconds. This sounds logical and seems obvious, but many times the price breaks a level and it is simply a false signal to immediately reverse. This type of trading, if not combined with context, for example, liquidity, structure, sessions, corrective movements, pullbacks, etc., the fact of merely trading on breakouts usually leads to constant losses. So for this reason, trading with breakouts goes directly trading with breakouts goes directly to the letter C, as it is best to avoid it. Trading with moving averages. Moving averages are one of the best indicators when it comes to trading, but strategies that rely exclusively on moving averages can be quite confusing. Here we have a confusing. Here we have a 20-session moving average that seems to respect the price structure quite well and could indicate many breaks, when the price forms a pullback, continuations, and so on. The problem is that if I add a 50-period moving average, it gives the same impression. It is also a level that may seem to respect the price structure quite well and can give us many entry signals, both long and short, as well as in pullbacks and continuation positions. But to make matters worse, if instead of a 50-period moving average I use a 200-period moving average, the feeling is exactly the same. And this is without taking into account that within the moving averages themselves there are many options. These are exponential, but there's the Hul one, the simple one, the weighted one, and so many other moving averages. So the moving average as an indicator is top three in my opinion, but moving averages as a trading strategy should go to letter number C, since for a beginner it is best to avoid them from the start. Trading with support and resistance levels. A support zone is a level that the price has not been able to break through to continue falling, and a resistance zone is a level that the price has not been able to break through to continue rising. There is a trading style that, rising. There is a trading style that, based on limit orders, involves resistance zone and leaving orders in place so that when the price reaches that level they are executed automatically, ensuring the trader the possibility of executing at the lowest part of the entire structure in order to set the tightest stop loss and maximize profitability. broader risk. It is a complex and difficult method that requires many more confirmations, so it is a way of trading support and resistance levels that will go directly to the letter C, since it is much better to avoid them. Strategies by session. Session strategies are market moments in which we execute trades when a particular session opens or closes. There are many ways to trade in different sessions and many strategies within each session, but the key here is to somehow the key here is to somehow align a clear direction with the start of the session, as this is when institutional liquidity enters or is supposed to enter. One option is to trade the Asian range, in which you mark the Asian range of the Asian session itself and at the moment the session ends, you wait for the price to attack an order block or an external liquidity zone. Once you've reached that level, you leave an order in reached that level, you leave an order in place. In this case, it's a limit buy below the order block and a take profit in the opposite range. In this case, I am not referring to trading the Asian session or the Asian range. I'm simply showing one example out of the thousands that exist of how to operate the start or end of one or the other session. So in this case, due to the structure, order, and time efficiency, session-based strategy trading will go directly to letter A, as it is highly recommended. CRT, trading with the recommended. CRT, trading with the concepts of Candle Ranch Theory, is a relatively new way of trading, although it recycles historical concepts that are becoming increasingly fashionable. It blends liquidity with more traditional candlestick-based trading and pushes analysis across different timeframes and fractality to the limit. I already uploaded a video a fractality to the limit. I already uploaded a video a few weeks ago showing step by step how to trade with CRTs and a profitable trading strategy with CRTs. So I recommend that if you're interested, you go and see it. The point is that there are many different ways to operate the same concepts, and I believe that a person who is starting out will appreciate starting with more generic and calmer concepts rather than going directly to CRT. So for this reason, CRT is going straight to letter B. It works, but there are better options. Trading with trend lines. Trend line trading is based Trend line trading is based on looking for diagonal levels within the on looking for diagonal levels within the price that accompany the structure and that form a kind of resistance if the line is above, support if the line is below, and that at the moment when they are broken, the price can be expected to form a large expansion movement, thus giving you the opportunity to enter in several ways. Method number one, at the bottom, that is, you wait for the price to reach the bottom and somehow buy. We would have a very profitable, but quite risky, way. Form number two, you enter the breaking point. We have already talked about breaking point. We have already talked about breakout trading and what it represents. And simply wait for the price to pull back. But the reality is that pullback trading is a completely different way of trading and is not entirely related to trend lines. The fact is that two people can draw the same trend line, body, no body, shadow, no shadow, in completely different ways. And furthermore, there isn't always a clear logic as to why the price should react one way or another to a sloping line. So even though it works, I think it works better in longer timeframes. They are not 100% reliable for someone who understands nothing more than trend lines to start trading. So for this reason, trend line trading goes to letter C, as it is best to avoid it at the beginning. Trading with liquidity take-offs. The market is driven by liquidity. Liquidity is what gives it direction and the ability to absorb orders and move the price to one realize what liquidity is and how it works, your perception of the market changes completely. The thing is, the market often takes liquidity from certain levels and then reverses course, right? What we commonly know as a false breakout, which is essentially the same thing, but explaining it based on liquidity concepts gives it that more technical knowledge. The issue is that these liquidity grabs, which are as simple as I explain and as easy to understand, are then much more complicated when applied to the chart because there are many levels near and far away, characteristic of the previous corrective movement, some larger , some smaller. And correctly interconnecting what level the price can turn around at generates a lot of confusion. And for someone who is just starting out, I don't think it's the best way to try to learn trading. While you need to understand what liquidity is, obsessing over and focusing your trading strategy on focusing your trading strategy on taking liquidity can be risky. So, trading with liquidity takers goes to option B. It works, but there are better trading strategies using an excess of indicators. As we saw previously world, here we have a ranking table of the winners of some of the latest editions of the World Cup Trading Championships, which is the most important trading competition in the world. They all use indicators. In this case we have, as you can see, SPX Big divergences, we have Powerbuster, we have Monte Carlo, we have the Footsi, we have the R Williams percentage, deviations, MACDIS, RSI, etc., etc., etc. The fact is that however useful indicators are, the moment you exceed one chart with indicators, you have problems because some give you buy signals, others give you sell signals, some tell you this thing, others tell you something else, and you don't end up specifying anything in any of them. Is it important to use any indicator? Yes, 100% can be useful and can objectify and make a strategy more enjoyable, but the moment you start adding indicators just for the sake of adding them or put more indicators as better according to your perception, you're lost. So, trading with too many indicators is going to be the first and only strategy that will go to the letter D, not recommended at all. Trading with Fibonacci. Fibonacci is one of the few tools that are not native to trading. Moving averages, MACD, RSI and so many other indicators or tools typical of trading or technical analysis. But Fibonacci numbers are something we have in nature, in our daily lives. And humankind has areas of our lives, why can't it be in trading? In my opinion, it 's one of the best ways to trade, because, as you can see, how does the market move? Well, through impulses and pullbacks, impulses and pullbacks, impulses and pullbacks in an upward trend with rising highs and lows pullbacks, impulses and pullbacks, impulses and pullbacks in a downtrend with decreasing highs and lows . So why not draw Fibonacci retracements from the beginning of the impulse to the end of the impulse to know at what point the corrective movement may end and when we can join the continuation of the trend, whether bullish or bearish? This is a completely objective, neutral way of doing things, and we are not saying what we would like or what we think should happen. It's simply a matter of adding mathematical numbers which, as you can see, are respected quite well. The 0.382 zone is a rejection zone. It's a rejection zone, it's a rejection zone, it's a rejection zone. It's a zone of rejection. I have randomly chosen a market phase in which the same thing is constantly replicated. So why do n't we extrapolate this into a strategy? So Conacchi's retracement trading goes straight to letter goes straight to letter A, as it is highly recommended. And now we'll review the table in general, but I've simply tried to classify, in the best and most honest way possible, at least in my opinion, which trading strategies might work best for someone who is a taking into account ease of learning, volatility or versatility—or rather, whether they help understand concepts that can be applied to other strategies— profitability, access to information, and so on. In this case, starting with the worst, the only strategy we should avoid at all costs is letter D, excess of indicators. Moving up a letter, letter C, strategies that we should best avoid are breakout trading, moving average trading, support and resistance trading, and trend line trading, as these are very good ways to trade, but they require much more support. We've already reached the letter B with strategies that work 100%, but there are better ones. Here we would have trading with ICT, trading with CRT, and trading with liquidity. And finally we come to the letter A, highly recommended strategies where we operate session trading and Fibonacci trading. That said, pinned comment and the video description you will find other links of interest such as courses, tutorials, training, more profitable trading strategies , videos where I specifically define most of these strategies step by step and in a much more complete way. 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