hey, do big traders trade using strategies like inside bar breakout, 5EMA reversal strategy, moving average crossovers strategy or do they understand the price and take trades based on patterns price make?
big traders personally dont visit random forums like tradingqna so we dont know.
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These are not even real strategies but personal madeup startegies from subashish pani AKA power of stocks. If you put a random MA or random and follow risk management even that will work as per maths.
Youtubers build these just to sell their course and buy lamborgini.
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Big traders don’t rely on fixed strategies like inside bars or EMA crossovers.
They use them as tools, not rules.
What they really focus on is: market structure, liquidity, trader behavior
A pattern is just a surface signal.
They care about why it’s happening.
Beginners follow patterns.
Professionals read the market behind them.
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It’s actually a mix of both, but big traders don’t rely on fixed strategies like EMA crossovers or inside bars alone.
They focus more on “**price action, market structure, and risk management”, and use indicators or patterns just for confirmation.
Simple setups can work, but without proper context and discipline, they don’t last.
Okay, I’ll bite even though it reads like an LLM. 
Professional CTAs use systematic algorithmic trading all the time. Sometimes it’s as simple as a moving average crossover, their algos buy/sell regardless of news or whatever else is happening based on price/volume (and indicators) alone. 