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How to Combine Two Strategies

Combining two strategies is writing a third rule about how their cues meet — both on one day, one then the other within a few days, or either — and that rule sets how often the combined card speaks. This paper shows you two strategies on the euro against the dollar in 2025 from real bars, eight cues and ten, that never met on one day, met twice within five days and gave eighteen as either; the idea as two sieves stacked or side by side; the August pair on the daily chart; the three joins counted in a table; and the Indicators List that keeps both tools on one chart on your platform.

Difficulty
Advanced
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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Two strategies on one strip

Combining two strategies is writing a third rule: how their cues have to meet. Take two on the euro against the dollar in 2025. Strategy A's cue, RSI climbing back above 40, came eight times. Strategy B's, the close crossing above the 50-day average, came ten times. Asked to agree on the same day, they never did. Asked to come within five days of each other, A then B, they did twice, on 20 January and 1 August. Asked for either, eighteen. The two cards did not change; the rule about how they meet did, and that rule set the count.

Two sieves

Picture two sieves. Stacked, one over the other, only what passes both gets through, and a few grains land in the bowl. Side by side, everything either one lets through lands, and the bowl fills. The same two sieves give a few grains or many, depending only on how they are arranged. Combining two strategies is choosing the arrangement: both is a stricter card with fewer cues, either is a looser card with more, and one then the other within a few days sits between. Neither arrangement is the better one by itself. Each is a different card, with a different count.

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