What is a Strategy?

a ' strategy ' is a combination of various conditions that define when to buy or sell a particular asset based on predefined algorithms to trade on for every trading strategy, one needs to define assets to trade, entry/exit points, and money management rules bad money management can make a potentially profitable strategy unprofitable algorithmic trading strategies are based on fundamental analysis, technical analysis or both they are usually verified by backtesting, where the process should follow the scientific method, and by forward testing a k a 'paper trading' where they are tested in a simulated trading environment algorithms that users use to trade are usually a combination of technical indicators(macd, rsi etc) and mathematical manipulations of price data (open, high, low, close, volume) to generate buy and sell signals check out writing my first strategy docid\ pre1rnd8kdf9dfvdnyn7u f or more information on how to create your first strategy on tuned