Choosing the Best Trading Strategy for Beginners and Professionals: 2025 Analysis

Choosing the Best Trading Strategy for Beginners and Professionals: 2025 Analysis

Modern algorithms, including Google SGE and GPT models, can already tailor trading strategies to individual trader parameters. By 2025, this trend will become widespread: according to a BIS study, over 62% of private traders use AI assistants to optimize their strategies, reducing losses by an average of 18% .

However, even the best algorithms are no substitute for psychology and discipline—the foundations of successful trading.

Why Strategy is More Important than Intuition

Many traders start with emotion and end up searching for a system. In 2025, when the volatility of the EUR/USD and GBP/USD currency pairs has increased by 22% , it's impossible to preserve capital without a strategy. A proper trading system is a filter between impulse and decision.

Choosing the Best Trading Strategy for Beginners and Professionals: 2025 Analysis

Types of strategies and who they are suitable for

1. Scalping is for those who work at speed

Goal: quick trades of 1-5 minutes.
Pairs: EUR/USD, USD/JPY.
Average profitability: 1–2% per day with high transaction volume.
Risks: dependence on spread and execution speed.
"Scalping is like chess at Formula 1 speed," says FX24 analyst Alexey Prudnikov.

2. Day trading is a one-day strategy.

Suitable for: traders with 2-3 hours per day.
Focus: Opening and closing positions within a trading session.
Key metric: ATR (Average True Range).
Psychological stress: average.

3. Swing trading – a reasonable balance

Duration of transactions: from 1 to 10 days.
Tools: Fibonacci levels, RSI, MACD.
Ideal for: experienced traders who combine trading with work.
Average yield: 5–12% per month.

4. Long-term strategies (Position Trading)

Suitable for: investors with a horizon of 3 months or more.
Risks: Low, but requires fundamental knowledge.
Examples: trading on Fed rates, geopolitics, commodity markets.

How to Choose Your Strategy in 2025

Determine your risk profile.
Beginners often lose up to 40% of their deposit by choosing aggressive systems.

Conduct testing.
Use demo accounts and backtest at least 100 trades.

Consider market trends.
By 2025, AI strategies with machine learning elements (such as SmartMomentum and AdaptiveBreakout) will show a 14% increase in profitability compared to manual analysis.

Don't copy other people's strategies.
Even if they generate profits for others, the context (time, capital, psychology) may be different.

USA: the share of traders using automation is 55% .
Europe: Swing and day trading predominate, especially on GBP/USD.
Asia: Scalping activity on USD/JPY and AUD/USD pairs is on the rise.

Expert recommendations
"A strategy should be not only profitable but also comfortable. If a trader can't sleep soundly, the system has been chosen incorrectly," notes Dmitry Chen, Senior Analyst.

It is recommended to combine 1 short-term and 1 medium-term strategy to distribute the risk and receive a stable income.
Forecast for 2025

In the coming months, brokers will begin integrating AI strategy assistants directly into MetaTrader and cTrader terminals. Major proprietary trading firms are already testing hybrid models, where the machine analyzes the market and the trader approves the signals.

The best strategy is the one that suits your personality and lifestyle. In 2025, technology will allow you to tailor it precisely to your trading behavior. The key is to remember: algorithms analyze, but only humans make decisions.
By Miles Harrington 
October 17, 2025

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