Different market conditions favour different strategies. A momentum trader using MA pullbacks will struggle in a ranging market. A supply and demand trader will miss moves that break structure. The solution is running multiple strategies simultaneously and only taking trades where two or more align. Here are the seven strategies Arcis AI runs on every scan.
1. Smart Money Concepts (SMC) / ICT
SMC is based on how institutional traders — banks, hedge funds, central banks — move price. The core idea is that smart money creates liquidity by trapping retail traders before making the real move. Key concepts include:
- Order blocks — the last bearish candle before a bullish move (or vice versa). Price often returns to these zones.
- Fair value gaps (FVG) — gaps in price that act as magnets for price to fill before continuation.
- Break of structure (BOS) — a confirmed change in trend direction.
- Liquidity sweeps — price temporarily breaks a key high or low to grab stop losses before reversing.
SMC signals are highest conviction when price sweeps liquidity and then immediately shows reversal from an order block.
2. Supply & Demand Zones
Supply and demand trading identifies price zones where institutional orders were previously placed. When price returns to these zones, those orders become active again — creating predictable reactions.
A demand zone is a price range where strong buying occurred — identified by a sharp move away from the zone. A supply zone is the opposite. The best zones are fresh (price has not revisited them) and caused a significant move away.
The strength of a supply or demand zone is proportional to the speed and size of the move away from it. A slow grind up from a zone is weaker than an explosive rally.
3. MA Pullback
Moving average pullback strategies enter when price pulls back to a key moving average during a trending market. The EMA20 and EMA50 are most common for short-term pullbacks; the EMA200 is the most important longer-term trend filter.
The signal fires when price is above EMA200 (bullish trend), pulls back to EMA20 or EMA50, shows a rejection candle, and momentum indicators confirm the bounce. Simple but highly effective in trending markets.
4. Ichimoku Cloud
Ichimoku gives you five components in one indicator — trend direction, momentum, support/resistance and future projections. A bullish signal fires when price is above the cloud, the Tenkan-Sen crosses above the Kijun-Sen, and the future cloud is bullish (cloud A above cloud B).
Ichimoku signals are slower but highly reliable when all components align. Best used on daily charts for swing trades.
5. RSI + Fibonacci
RSI divergence combined with Fibonacci retracement levels gives you both momentum and price-based confirmation. The signal fires when price pulls back to a key Fibonacci level (38.2%, 50%, or 61.8%) and RSI shows hidden bullish divergence — price makes a lower low but RSI makes a higher low.
This is one of the highest-quality reversal signals in technical analysis when the Fibonacci level also coincides with a structural level.
6. MACD Divergence
Standard MACD divergence occurs when price makes a new high or low but the MACD histogram does not confirm it. This signals weakening momentum and often precedes a reversal. Hidden divergence signals trend continuation after a pullback.
7. Trend Following
The simplest strategy — trade in the direction of the dominant trend on higher timeframes, enter on pullbacks confirmed by momentum. Uses multiple EMAs (20, 50, 200) to define trend, ATR for stop placement, and enters when all timeframes agree.
No single strategy works in all market conditions. The edge comes from confluence — when two or more independent strategies point to the same trade. That is when you size up.
All 7 strategies running simultaneously
Arcis AI scans 40+ markets using all seven strategies every 5 minutes and scores signals based on how many factors align.
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