Choose the Best Strategies for You
What this helps you do
This guide helps you turn the Strategies tab into a filter for you, not just for the market. You’ll learn how to go from “wall of strategies” to a small, stable lineup that fits your timeframe, risk tolerance, and watchlists, without hopping to a new shiny thing every other day.
The idea is simple: use the Strategies tab to discover, inspect, and curate strategies, then let your Subscriptions list become your personal playbook.
Step 1: Decide what job your strategies should do
Before you touch a single filter, answer two questions:
On the Strategies panel, choose:
This keeps you from reviewing strategies you would never actually use.
Step 2: Use Community view to find good candidates
Start in Community mode so you can see the wider pool of strategies.
Open Filter and:
Apply the filter, keep List view on, and sort by a stat that matters to you most, like Annual Return or Batting Avg.
You now have a ranked list of strategies that at least vaguely fit your trading reality instead of a random buffet.
Step 3: Inspect a strategy before you subscribe
For each promising row, you want to answer three questions:
Here is where the extra features kick in:
If something feels off, move on. If it looks promising, it’s a candidate.
Step 4: Turn candidates into a personal lineup
Once you have a few strategies you like, it is time to commit them to your working list without turning your account into a strategy zoo.
Use the checkboxes at the left of the table:
Then switch to Subscriptions mode.
What you see here is your actual lineup. This is the list you will come back to regularly, so be a bit choosy. A small number of well understood strategies is usually more useful than twenty that you only half remember.
Step 5: Match stats to your personality
The Strategies tab is full of stats, but they all boil down to how “bumpy” and how “rewarding” a strategy is.
Some quick patterns to look for:
For the precise definitions of each metric, lean on the Strategy Stats Glossary rather than guessing. The how-to here is not to memorize formulas, but to consistently choose stats that match your temperament.
Step 6: Edit, clone, or leave it alone
If you find a community strategy that is almost right, you can open it in the builder and adjust it.
Use this sparingly. The goal is not to endlessly tinker, but to fix obvious mismatches, such as exits that do not line up with how you manage risk.
Step 7: Maintain your lineup over time
The Strategies tab is not a one-time decision. It is more like a garden.
Every so often:
This way, the Strategies tab becomes a living reflection of how you trade, not just a giant catalog.
Used this guide to build your first lineup? Nice. The next time you log in, head straight to Subscriptions and you will have a curated list waiting for you instead of a blank slate.
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