How to Choose the Right Trading Strategy for Yourself (Full Guide)

Introduction

You may have seen many trading strategies on Web, but do you know which trading strategy is best for you? How will you know which strategy suits you as a trader? Just because the whole world is trading gold or Bitcoin doesn’t mean you need to trade them too. The answer is NO. Every person is different.

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Why Choosing the Right Strategy Is Important

I’m going to explain how to choose the right trading strategy for yourself. And in the description of this video, you’ll also find a checklist. If you answer that checklist, you will get a lot of clarity about what’s better for you.

How to Start Building a Strategy

So, how do you build a strategy?

Which technical factor works well for you?

Which technical factor makes sense to you and is easy for you to understand?

If you are someone who doesn’t understand indicators at all or doesn’t like them—like me—and you want to be someone driven by price action, that’s absolutely fine.

But then, if you prefer price action over indicators, you need to find assets where price action is smooth and with less manipulation.

Choosing the Right Market for Price Action Traders

When it comes to that, Nifty and the Indian stock market are a big NO because there’s too much manipulation and bad price action.

Choosing Between Price Action and Indicators

Then, you need to understand which technical factor suits you.
Let’s say you’ve decided on price action—fine.
Now, if you’re someone who prefers using indicators and doesn’t want to do a lot of thinking, that’s also absolutely fine. That’s your choice. That’s your style.

Then you need to figure out:

Which indicator works best for you?
Which indicator do you understand well?
What settings can you adjust?

What changes can you make to make that indicator work   better for you?

Choosing the Right Instrument

Now comes the second step, which is understanding which instrument to trade.
Let’s say you’ve chosen the Forex market or crypto market.
Even in the crypto market, there are many instruments.

You need to:

Observe charts
 Understand how instruments behave at different times

For example, Ethereum has a strategy I already shared in an older video. You must have seen that Ethereum gives a good move in the Asia session around 2-3 AM.
But who will trade at 2-3 AM?

Matching Strategy with Your Life Schedule

That’s exactly why you need to understand which trading time suits your life.
And this is the most important part: **your time window**.
The biggest reason people fail in trading is they can’t give proper time to it.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t dedicated.
You might be very determined and dedicated to trading.
But because of your life responsibilities and current commitments, maybe you’re not able to give time.
That’s not your fault, nor is it the market’s fault.
But a solution is needed.

Define Your Time Window

You need to ask yourself:

What time of the day can I fully commit to trading?
Once you decide that, you should never go back.
You should be 100% disciplined with that time window.

Example: College Student

Let’s take a normal person’s life.
You are a 20-year-old college student. You wake up at 6 AM, go to college at 7, and are free by 1–2 PM. After that, maybe you go to coaching, gym, or do other things.

Invitation to Learn More

If you want to avoid the mistakes I made in my journey, I’d like to personally invite you to Alphard Trader University, where I not only teach these topics but also show them live.
It’s not just a course with recorded videos—it’s a live experience:

* Access to courses
* Access to my live streams
* Zoom calls for live trading
* Doubt-solving sessions
* Backtesting sessions

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Trading New York Session

If you can take time out during the New York session, you should trade that session.
Now you need to understand:

Which instruments give good moves during the New York session?

These can be:

* Gold
* USD/JPY
* Bitcoin
* US100
* US30

These are less manipulative and give very good moves.
That’s what you need to trade.

Avoid Wrong Asset Selection

Now let’s say you’re a student who only has time during the New York session, but you’re thinking of trading GBP/USD.

I’m not saying they don’t move during New York, but the best moves come during the day because they cater to that market.

Example: CA Student

Let’s say you’re a CA student like I was. You barely have time to breathe.
I used to study 16 hours a day.

In that case, maybe late night is the only time you can dedicate to trading.
I don’t know how you’ll trade, because you also need sleep.
If you dedicate 16 hours to study, you have only 8 hours left—and you should use that for sleep.

But if you’re willing to sacrifice on sleep—maybe sleep 4–6 hours—you can allocate 2 hours to trading during the Asia session and look at Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Observation Is Key

Why am I telling you all this? Because once you’ve identified your time window, your work begins.
Then starts your homework, your observation.

Let’s say you’ve decided you only have time from 2 AM to 4 AM to trade.
Then what will you do?

* Open the Ethereum chart.
* Observe what Ethereum does between 2–4 AM.

There’s a 99% chance you will find a pattern.
You’ll recognize a pattern: how Ethereum moves, what kind of moves it gives, how aggressive or slow the move is, and how long it takes to hit the target.

Build a Strategy Around That

Once you recognize the pattern, you build a strategy on top of it:

* Define the setup
* Define entry model
* Maybe add indicators
* Customize it based on what works for you

This is very important—and no one tells you this.
Most people adjust themselves according to the trading world.
That’s not wrong—I did the same and rose up.
But eventually, I realized:

* Every person is different
* Every person has a different life

If you do this, your chances of becoming a successful trader are very, very high.

Make Winning Easy

Because this will ensure you can trade comfortably.
There’s a saying:

> It doesn’t really matter how badly you want to win.
> If you make winning easy for yourself, your chances of winning are very high.

Let’s say someone wants to go to the gym. There are two gyms:

* One is 1 hour away
* One is 15 minutes away

Just because they join the 1-hour-away gym and go daily doesn’t mean they’re disciplined.
They might be, but it’s also stupidity.
Joining the 15-minutes-away gym makes winning easier.

Final Thoughts

That’s exactly why, if you use a checklist and ask yourself all these questions, you will understand how to increase your chances of becoming a winning trader.

Now you know exactly what questions to ask.
You can also ask yourself:

* Are you an impatient person?
* Are you an aggressive person?

But I’ve mentioned personality later in this video because the most important part is your life schedule, your daily schedule, your instrument preference, your market preference.

Because if I only have time between 2–4 AM, it doesn’t matter whether I’m aggressive or impatient.
Whatever the market is doing at that time, I have to trade accordingly.

Mistakes Most People Make

90% of people don’t do this.
90% of people come on YouTube and watch random videos.
And whatever time window the YouTuber mentions, they try to trade at that time.

Now, if someone says trade from 12:30 to 1:30 PM, but I have college at that time—then I won’t be able to attend college properly or trade properly.

Then I’ll be stuck wondering: “What am I doing wrong?”
You’re trying to do two things at once—both will fail.

Clarity and Focus Are Everything

That’s exactly why you need focus and clarity
And I hope this clears things up.

Thank you so much for Reading.

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