Conservative or aggressive? Two ways into the same trade.

When Pairvue spots a setup, it usually suggests more than one way to play it. The two you'll see most often are Conservative and Aggressive. Same direction, same idea — different entry. People assume one of them must be the "better" one. It's not that simple, and which fits you depends more on your temperament than on the chart.

Here's the difference in plain language.

Conservative: wait for the pullback

A conservative entry doesn't chase. It waits for price to come back to a level — usually support on a buy — before getting in.

The upside is that your entry sits right next to a clear line in the sand. That means your stop can be tight and your risk is small and well defined: if price slips below the level, you're out, and you knew exactly where that was before you started. The downside is patience. Sometimes the pullback never comes. Price runs without you, and you're left watching a move you "called" but never took. That miss is the price of the better entry.

Aggressive: take it at market

An aggressive entry gets in now, at roughly the current price, on the logic that the move is already underway and waiting means missing it.

The upside is obvious: you're in, and you catch the moves that never pull back to a neat level. The cost is that your entry is further from the safety of that level. So either your stop has to be wider — more money at risk per trade — or it sits closer to price and is more likely to get clipped by ordinary noise. You're trading a clean fill for not missing out. Sometimes that's the right trade. Sometimes it's how you get shaken out before the move you were right about.

Neither one is free money

This part most channels won't tell you: neither entry is a cheat code. A conservative entry that never fills made you exactly nothing. An aggressive entry into a fakeout loses like any other bad trade. They're trade-offs, not tiers — one isn't the "premium" version of the other. We're still doing the slow work of measuring where each genuinely earns its keep, and we'll tell you what we find, including the parts where the answer is "it doesn't."

So which should you use?

Roughly: if you'd rather miss a trade than take a bad entry, lean conservative. If missing a move bothers you more than a slightly worse fill does, aggressive will suit you. Most people drift toward one naturally once they've felt both in real time.

Pairvue gives you the entry, the stop, and the level behind it for each option, so you can pick the one that matches how you actually trade — not how some screenshot insists you should.