PS. Which strategy is the most effective? Everything that is effective in skillful hands and ineffective in incompetent hands, everything is as always, everywhere in any activity.
As a rule, efficiency increases significantly when using several options simultaneously, depending on the market situation. Some strategies for working around reversal zones are more effective when there is bullish dominance, some when there is bearish dominance.
A universal strategy for efficiency in bull and bear markets is to work from the average price with pre-allocated capital (this is key, that is, the strategy implies having a plan and the basis for its money management). The essence is simple, but complex (greed, stupidity, manipulative suggestibility of news nonsense) at the same time for the majority of the same simplicity. Buying from the average price in #accumulation and selling from the average price in distribution.
This not only applies to the global cycle, locally the work is similarly effective. Especially if orders are added to protect profits (sell stops (or OCO orders) when there is already a significant profit from the set, as well as pulling them up as prices rise).
In a bull market in the Participation Phase (price growth to highs) it is effective:
Stop loss for purchase + limit orders (grid) for purchase in the range of potential decline - rollback, and then growth - limit orders for sale. At local highs, OCO orders are added (that is, protection stops have already arrived + local sell takes). I did a lot of explanations about this strategy with many examples in a closed channel, when it is relevant to the market at the moment.
At higher values in the market distribution, stop loss orders or OCO orders are effective for protecting profits, the main thing is not to forget to move them after the final price rise.
In a bear market (Decrease phase, not accumulation) - a banal short (including commissions). Closing in parts before key support levels, where there will be consolidation and rebound. What can “eat” part of your shorts. Effective, both for positional work in a cycle (more effective), and sometimes for local work (stops are often taken out).
🕯An example of working in a cycle. As mentioned above, closing a position before key support levels, from which there will be a reaction, that is, a rebound and consolidation of 30-50%, which is formed due to positive news nonsense (hope for a reversal for the hamsters) before an inevitable further decline to the set zone.
The market decline phase and short work is the time when you can take a break from trading if you are friendly with risk management (stop). More relevant for liquid instruments. On low liquid ones, there may be pumps in the middle of the “off topic” cycle at the request of “someone there” (“give a stop”).
Periodic shorting is relevant until the zone of the next set (long sideways):
Liquid -70-90% (bitcoin 60-75%)
Medium liquid -90-95%
Low liquidity up to -96-98% or death.
During the decline phase in 2022 at the trend lows, I wrote an article (publicly published on April 17, 2023), if anyone understood the humor, congratulations. For those who haven't, you will have an attempt to test your courage partly in.... and 2026. I am sure you will forget everything out of fear, supposedly “this time everything will be different,” and since the mantra is repeated year after year by hamsters and “experts” of other people’s opinions and fears.
Although it is worth noting that working short involves holding collateral money on exchanges, for many this is categorically not suitable for money management (large capital). That is, the game is not worth the candle. Risk everything, or most of it, for the sake of, for example, +80% of the deposit, if it is understood that a little later, as always, there will be conditionally +1000%.
Then you can not do this, but wait for a % decrease in the cycle, at which time it is time to take a closer look at assets to gain in parts, or trade in horizontal accumulation channels.