FXD Harvesting Strategy

Notes:

1. I advise skipping post #2 - #17 as it may create confusion. From post #18 onwards, it's important to acknowledge the information I've shared about this strategy!

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Ciao,

Introduction & Purpose of the System

My journey into trading and finance has been a long and deeply personal one. What has always fascinated me is understanding how global markets actually work without assumptions, shortcuts, or dubious theories. After years of trial, error, and relentless observation, I’m finally ready to present something meaningful.
Today, I’m sharing this not as just another trading strategy, but as a complete case study: the FXD Harvesting System, which I’ve been developing and refining for over a decade. A tremendous amount of effort has gone into making it efficient, practical, and grounded in reality, and I’m offering it to you openly. No catch.
At one point, I considered putting a price tag on this work. In today’s world, free knowledge is often undervalued unless people know how much life and experience went into creating it. But I eventually realised I’d rather see this system create genuine, life-changing impact for many people than trade it for a few extra bucks, especially when I’m already financially comfortable.

Back in 2016, I shared a strategy called FX Dynamine. It helped many traders develop a new way of reading and perceiving charts. I personally used it to grow small, medium, and large accounts. However, despite its success, it never gave me true peace or certainty in building long-term, recurring income. Its speculative nature always left room for doubt.

One hard truth I learned is this: trading is not a full-time profession, and it never truly can be. In trying to decode the real nature of markets, trading took a significant toll on my life. I wasn’t interested in endless speculation anymore; I wanted clarity, structure, and sustainability.

The reason I continue to share knowledge with this community is simple: to shorten unnecessary learning curves and help people spend more time living their lives. I’ve seen far too many so-called “experts” give advice without accountability, convincing others to take risks while never facing the consequences themselves. I’ve watched people get misled into decisions that deeply impact their financial and personal lives.

While trading can be profitable and even enjoyable, it is also extremely dangerous when misunderstood. If you don’t truly grasp how it works, it can harm you more than you ever expect.

My intention here is to go far beyond just a strategy. This will cover every critical aspect, technical, psychological, financial, and practical. Life is meant to be lived, yet trading often becomes a maze that traps people indefinitely. When real money is involved, emotions intensify, and situations unfold that most people are completely unprepared for.

What I’ll be sharing is the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of everything I’ve learned so far. It won’t be possible to fit it all into a single post. So, I’ll be breaking it down step by step, covering the following topics one by one, with as much clarity and depth as possible:

CONTENTS :

 

1. Introduction & Purpose of the System #1
2. The Harvesting Approach
3. Market Structure & Bias Formation
4. Liquidity Mechanics & Stop Dynamics
5. Indicators, Experts & Templates
6. Identifying Setups and Executing Entries
7. Execution Clarity & Kill Rules
8. Money Management and Capital Needs -#19
9. Bi-Monthly Return Expectation
10. Take Profit and Stop Loss
11. Psychology and How It Affects the Outcome
12. Session Behaviour & Timing
13. Withdrawals and Maintaining Consistency
14. Live Case Studies and Trade Breakdowns - #70 #71

I’ll try to explain each of the outlined contents in as much detail as possible. Initially, it may feel a bit random, as I’ll focus first on the most important parts and later link post numbers and references for easier navigation. Looking forward to your feedback!

Ciao

Hello.

On the first screenshot short taken @152.00 and was kept even price goes up 570 pips against you.
Thanks God price reversed to the down side.
What was your plan if price would rise more?
I am seriously interested in your answer.

This thread looks very promising.

Sometimes it is worth to wait a long time for answer to easy question.

Aight, let's begin!

Hello, iwan73, thanks for taking an interest in this strategy. Indeed, it's very promising; however, it might not be as simple as it may look. This strategy involves years of trial and error with real money and real accounts, no backtesting in the last 5 years, only forward testing. I have reached a point where I think I've covered all aspects of this strategy to trust it with my funds and others. I don't want anyone to spend their valuable time guessing whether a system might be worth it or not, so I've done the hard work to test its limits in a real environment, and I'm glad to say I've never come close to anything like this that can match the simplicity, accountability and profitability of this system.
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Kindly accept my apologies for keeping this thread waiting. I didn't realise the holiday season was going on while creating this thread, then got busy with friends and fam with celebrations. Hope you all had a wonderful time, and I wish you all a great year ahead. I really want to dedicate time and effort into explaining this strategy with patience and clarity; it took a lot of time for me to affirm in something I can believe in, regardless of its speculative nature. I hope you'll acknowledge the effort I have put into creating a strategy that works.

Coming to your question about the open trades, yes, the TE Virtual Funds is following the strategy, but the objective is different. I'll explain how. Over the time, I have realised the best opportunities come latter part of the trade where the speculation is on the rise for any pair/move, yet still it doesn't let me milk pips, points or profits the way I had anticipated. I've been trading less than full-time but more than part-time for over a decade. Profits were made, losses were incurred, more investment was poured to cover the losses and to keep playing the game. I started this strategy back in 2016 with the basic objective to catch a solid swing position. The results are illustrated on this thread with a live account. Here

However, the approach was to wait for weeks before confirming on a setup and planning execution accordingly. As time passed, I got more clients and accounts, and it got difficult to follow this approach, as the leverage was high with a small margin of error. However, still, my POV is that it can be done in that way. Still, it's not optimal for the requirements I had, as I would get a new account a week or two after the setup was initiated. For me things started to get complicated, while at this point I met an interesting person who had a different perspective towards trading. As per him, at any time, the leverage being used is as important as the need for a chart to identify trades. This made sense, and by this time, I was working on a harvesting concept, according to which, you split the positions, for example, instead of 1 trade of 1 lot, putting 10 trades of 0.10 lots looked more promising later, we did an experiment putting it all together, and wohlla, we did end up with something to be proud of. If you take a look at the ACHIEVABLE TE, you'll see the Leverage is 1:50, and at any point, the maximum number of trades is 200. PERIOD. The result is for everyone to see, but ever since, we have been trying to figure out the worst-case scenario if we have to invest funds like that again. Last three years or so, all my effort has been observing the account's stats after at least 70 days of harvesting consistently as I have realised time is a more important factor than money or any strategy if this has to be a business. I've made 5x 10x return, but It was all a gamble which means I was willing to lose the invested funds if things went against me. This approach can be fun on a personal level but not when millions of funds are counting on the precaution of one's strategy, where the main objective is to first secure the funds at any cost. Hence FXD Harvesting.

There are few key things of this strategy: Minimum Balance, Leverage used, Number of trades, Stop out and profit booking method. After many attempts, I have figured it out for myself I would like to share it with you all as well. The current Virtual Funds TE has no stops it's 94 days and still intact as my theory is with a minimum balance of 10k keeping 3k reserve you can make a system that will yield you weekly withdrawals after atleast 70 - 90 days of trading and the fear of things going wrong has to be eliminated complitly but only if it is possible to replicate the idea in a real trading enviroment. There is no upward limit to this. I've at ease grown account to over 300% without risking anything literally, and to accomplish this, I had to perform many tests to faliure to observe the behaviour towards the end over 80 days. As of this moment, the total number of trades running is 169, and I still have 30 trades to execute. Now this drawdown might be a lot, but it's deliberate. I'll post the entire setup rules and everything in between for you to compare the account and how safe it still is despite throwing to off the cliff. It has still survived if my worst-case scenario is tested of this strategy I'm now ready to focus on the upward direction.

Disclaimer: This involves years of dedication, sacrifice, understanding, trial & error to have a conviction of this level I have eliminated what's of no use and will be sharing what's important, with which, if you understand and practice for some tim,e you'll realise it's just the approach that makes one profitable or not. At any point, I am not guaranteeing anything. This is a speculative financial market, so I assume you acknowledge the basic risk of losing all your money. so I advise you to be extremely cautious and evaluate all your decisions with a critical mind.

Yes, Man, sometimes it is.

I was also putting the system all together, so it took some time to finalise as I do not want to make it complicated, but as easy as possible, as to how I approach my trading and day-to-day activity, you all must know the lagging part and other things about any strategy, so do I. anything that does'nt benifit has to be simply eliminated at peak hours I have experienced the platform behaving crazy, keeping it all in the mind the looks are minimal. This is how it looks below. First, I want to explain the concept and my understanding behind this as clearly as possible. Hope this strategy will benefit you for real. Good Luck

First, let's cover the basics of this strategy. For a setup, we'll be looking for a Higher High and a higher low forming on H4 only in case of Buy Entry on a long trend, once there is a Higher Low, according to the previous entry method, I would wait for the price to cross MA's on 1hr and give a nice breakout as illustrated below, but if you'll see on 1 hr it's easier to illustrate then executing as if you see price concolidated from wednesday Thursday and Friday the weekends Sataurday and Sunday (exahaustion) on Monday price fell creating a Higher Low but the entry breakout happend on Wednesday, followed by thursday and friday to complete this move, over the years I have observed this is the only move were it always has to break the previous high in case of downtrend even if had to reverse, However in last few years I have switched down to 15 minutes to find more presision and confidence to execute my entries.

The Key Indicators of this strategy are :
In 4hr Chart :-

SMA 34,55 &200
Stochastic K period 10 Slowing 10 (This stochastic has been extremely precise on 4h over the years to identify Setups.
MACD - Fast 5 Slow 13 (to identify Divergence and key levels.
Institutional levels : x.800 x.000 x.200. These three levels are the key zones for any movement happening in any direction of the trend I'll highlight the importance of these levels in later posts.
Monthly Levels - Pivot, Monthly Resistance 1,2,3 & Monthly Support 1,2,3
Weekly levels Low & High Only.
Donchian Channel 20 for stops and 40 to identify high probability swing zones
Buttons to switch TF for added confirmation (I would suggest hiding all tools of MT4 for more workspace)


In 15 minutes,

Only the stochastic has been changed to 60,10 ( this setting helps me to avoid noise)
Weekly Levels - Pivot, Weekly Resistance 1,2,3 & Weekly Support 1,2,3
Daily High, Low level, and period separator to give an estimate of possible execution
Donchian Channel 40 Only

There are many things I have observed over the years that have changed my perspective about forex trading, specifically. I don't think any price movement happens irrationally; instead, it is a manipulative rhythmic move to exhaust most of the short-term traders who get into forex for quick profit by making them win some and lose a lot more, with or without risk management. Have you ever thought about how it's always heading towards the margin level if your positions are overleveraged? There has to be some probability that someone might be getting it right.

Time is the answer to everything. I don't know the roots of who created it, nor do I want to decode any conspiracy theory; all I care about is finding a way where I can profit from it, so even if one knows how it works, the move happens precisely in 5-12 days, and the only setup you are supposed to make a profit if one misses it one is voided into consolidation to exhaust margin in many wrong decisions for quick profit. If it's made for everyone looking to get rich quickly to head towards a margin call, there must be a way for someone who is not in a rush to make a profit but cares about sustainability, consistency, and profitability, other than institutions with big funds to make any move in favour of them, but also Individual traders like me who needs a valid reason behind any execution even if it would incure any loss. This strategy is all about this. The observation and improvisation on this has made it stable to be played like a game in real real-life environment, making pips and points.

If there is a divergence on the Daily tf, the confirmation is the breaking of tl, where the least target to anticipate on the DTF is 55 SMA. In 4 hours, I have marked where the entries should be in any case than how it's been executed, this will increase the profitability phenomenally, reducing the drawdown at the same time by a loT, Let's see how this plays out as on 15 minutes I have a good entry, i.e a lower high of 60 stotch.

The idea behind this system is to identify solid setups and execute trades in that direction, and give time to mature with the given money management I'll never have to worry about the trades over time. Droplets would have made a pond.

What kind of setups ?

1. Most accurate in the case of long on 4 hr, there has to be a higher low where the low should be near the weekly pivot for entry, either of the two things has to happen a divergence on the lower TF or the TL on the lower TF has to be broken.
2. If there is a divergence on the Daily TF only after a TL break of the line chart ( This is the reason for using the line chart, it's highly accurate) for entry, I need a lower high on the 15-minute TF in case of a short like this example of EJ.

USDCAD I'll be looking for a long opportunity as there is a divergence on D TF followed by a tl break, I feel Candlestick creates more confusion, and the line chart indicates better in the direction it might head. There is no Higher Low on 1hr chart so that's what I'll be anticipating for entry

A similar view on USDCHF, these are just possibilities, there will always be enough time to evaluate these trades and only enter after a valid confirmation on lower tf's I'm just pointing it out to refer later.

This is how time tries to exhaust you into making the wrong decision: a simple classic lower high trade on EC took three weeks to complete. think about it.

I don't want to speculate; rather, I need to see reasons that make sense, and if I'm able to capture the move, let's see how ENZD goes. There is a divergence on h1

See, I didn't take any trades after 22 December all the trades I took yesterday, I explained the reason behind it. This is harvesting the previous trades are counter for different objectives

Kindly do not underestimate this strategy

Hi Varun,

The thread looks very interesting, looking forward to it as you unfold your methodology.

Glad you could stop by this thread, Mate. Thank you for the kind input; I look forward to more. It means a great deal to me. Definitely, I am and will do my best to explain my perspective behind this strategy as the market movement unfolds in real time.

Continuing on this note, I have crafted this system in a way that the involvement is minimal in speculating the future moves; rather, I'm insisting on catching the initial movement as it happens. I can't emphasise more on the use of the line chart and splitting the trades. Once things are set, I literally take 15- 25 minutes going through all the pairs once or twice a day, and if I find a potential entry, I get in.

As a trader, we all have gone through conflicts in decision-making while executing the trades, and as time passes, how things start looks to feel dull and uncertain. Years of my effort have been on this. Through my experience, I have established that the market will move irrespective of who's in at what level. I don't believe that volume affects the price movement; instead, the institution enters with major volume at key levels, and they don't sweat because a million-dollar position could be just 1% of their capital. Having traded at the institutional level, I've seen how numbers grow phenomenally with just leveraging 1-3% of the capital, hence this strategy is inspired by it.

We are not limited to days/weeks/months; forex moves are designed to check our worst impulses from making mistakes, but there has to be a limit on making mistakes as well when the clarity appears.

So I just went through all the pairs and found two opportunities, and I'm as clueless as you are about the outcome. So I'll just go ahead and execute my trades and see how this unfolds.

GBPCHF - I see a divergence on 15 minutes, so I've executed stops at the institution levels of 800,000,200 along with this, if there are any weekly/monthly levels there as well, and I am executing 2 trades at a level with 0.05 lot, I'm not mentioning about the lot size but it has its role to play I'll be covering on another post, the thing is price never actually reverse untill it breaks the TL (I'll bring more clarity to this later) which is broken in this case.

Another important factor in confirming the execution is PW H/L and PD H/L (this too I'll be covering in sometime)

Now every trade is unique, but the basics are the same, and we need to see reasoning into our execution rather than speculating. For example, another one is Nzdcad minor divergence on h4 major divergence on M15 TL has broken. I couldn't find an institutional-level entry, but still, I managed to enter some, and in any case the distance should be a minimum of 15 pips. Let's see how these two trades unfold.

The reason why I insist on splitting the position is that, market never reverses till it finishes its move in one direction. Here, I got a better entry to a trade still being formed, and my other positions are not triggered. In one hour, there's a divergence TL break and probably a retest, look at the blue donchain channel and how it's sloping down. Nothing much looks interesting, and it's Friday, the impulses are being tested to load counter traders, including Monday, before the price continues in its direction. On ENZD, I got a potential reentry, and I'm done for the day.

This week I harvested $382. Still, it counts where my investment is secure due to the number of trades, leverage, and lot size; things will make more sense as it progresses.

I found another opportunity on EAUD


Cheers

Guys, I revamped everything!

I have been with this a long time to realise it's getting more complex to understand for myself as well, and the rules have to be crystal clear. By the end of this week, I'll share the indis and templates. I feel overwhelmed to say it feels like it, somehow it turned out even A freakn better. Till then, I'll illustrate it with the FXD Harvesting account attached to this thread. The virtual trade account's main objective is to understand that STOPLOSS is not important, but to avoid counter trade at any cost is the whole point! Stops are to exit counter trend as soon as you realise it. I'll be posting many illustrations to make a complete sense of everything,

ALL I want is for you to TAKE TIME TO UNDERSTAND this, and it would be really nice to have your valuable inputs on this thread for it to keep moving, else it gets serious and boring! I hope you'll acknowledge the efforts put into putting everything together, in the simplest possible way, for anyone to see the bright side of trading forex (ONLY) quite easily.

Your boy has tested the depths of negative sides you don't wanna be in , so we can focus on the onward and upward part of the positive side.

First Things First

RISK MANAGEMENT

Fixed Lots Size - Conservative (0.02), Moderate (0.03), Advance (0.04)

Number of Trades: At any point in time, the maximum number of trades can never be more than 200. You cannot afford to miss out on opportunities and better entry levels. The best part is that there are always many to grab EVERYDAY NOT EVERYTIME!

Leverage: Following these three rules, leverage should always be in check by itself self but still I would recommend keeping it to 200 maximum!

No Counter Trades - You'll know for sure at a certain point with this strategy if the trades are counter once you realise closing it at cost without waiting, all it takes for this strategy to start yielding positive results, riding the opportunities presented by the trend in favour. Time is the only real element in trading that nobody can skip; otherwise, there's no point in sharing

Minimum starting Balance - Everything has been tested around having a starting capital of 10k USD, you don't need money to test it out on unlimited DEMO accounts, and see for yourself if this strategy can be of any help to you

You get everything at an eagle's eye view through this risk management template before you open any chart. Remember, we are not intraday traders, nor swing traders, either. We, in fact, fit nowhere; we just trade and observe the outcome

After 100 days, it doesn't have to look this bad, and what looks good on the first day can definitely keep getting better progressively.

I'm taking a short lunch break, then I'll start posting an analysis of all the pairs on my list with as many details as possible for us to also identify what things could have been avoided. Please clear any doubt at any point, as it would get easier for me to cover things I might have missed.

BRB

Hi Varun,

That's some drawdown. but trusting you'll provide a explanation that will make sense out of all of it other wise why would you trade it!!!
Looking forward to your next post.