In automated trading, finding an entry is only one part of the equation. The real challenge is managing what happens before, during, and after that decision...
Institutional Gold Analysis (XAU/USD): Pre- New york Crossover Window 1. Headline & Executive Summary * Check out my free Indicator: https://www.mql5...
If a London-session box is an hour away from the candles you expected, the first thing to check is the clock behind the chart. MetaTrader 5 does not stamp bars in your laptop's local time. It stamps them in the broker's server time...
Lot size is not a fixed answer for a currency pair. It depends on three things: how much money you are prepared to lose, where the stop goes, and what one tick is worth on the symbol your broker supplies. That is why an MT5 lot size calculator should start with the stop loss. A 0...
A candle chart tells you where price went. It does not tell you where the trading actually happened. Those are different questions, and the second one is often the more useful of the two. A volume profile answers the second question...
Almost every trading mistake traces back to one confusion: trading a range as if it were a trend, or a trend as if it were a range. Trend tools whipsaw in ranges. Range tools get run over in trends...
You bought an Expert Advisor, or you are copying somebody's signal, and after a few weeks you want to know one thing. Is it doing anything dangerous behind your back? Specifically: when a trade goes against it, does it open a second, bigger one to rescue the first...
Event to watch today: 17:00 EET. USD - Federal Reserve Board Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver a speech EURUSD: A month without swaps on majors...
I published an expert advisor that lost almost its entire account. The record is still on my profile. This post is what I learned from it, written as five checks you can run on any EA before you trust it with money — including mine...
Live account #37376132 — RoboForex Ltd — real money — opened 17 July 2026 — report generated 28 August 2026. Why I open a new account every time I release a version Every time I ship a new version of an EA, I open a brand-new live account and fund it from zero...
This is the third entry in a public incubation diary for a gold Expert Advisor I am building toward a release around December 2026 or January 2027. The rule I set for myself is that everything goes in the diary — the measurements that came out the way I expected, and the ones that did not...
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo looks intimidating because it draws five lines and a cloud all at once, but the name itself tells you the intent. It translates roughly as a chart that shows balance at a single glance...
Trading decisions often become clearer when you can see the trade instead of simply reading numbers. That is exactly the idea behind the on-chart trade planning experience in Ashinton Risk Console Pro...
A trading signal can be correct and the resulting order still be one that was never capable of working. In my first post, I described an unexpected trade that should never have happened...
BTCUSD: BUY 79000, SL 78000, TP 83000. A month without swaps on majors! Learn more Bitcoin's continued growth is slightly delayed. The price decided to correct a bit, which led to a slight decline into the previous correction range. From here, buyer activity begins to show again...
Gold (XAUUSD) is one of the most liquid—and volatile—assets in the financial markets. Operating an automated Expert Advisor on Gold requires fast execution, precise spread handling, and strict risk controls...
On 26 August, two short trades developed on two different markets. The direction was the same. The way I read it was not. I read XAUUSD M5 with Scalping mode and GBPUSD M15 with Smart Trend mode. Both were bearish opportunities, but each mode organized the decision differently...
GBPUSD Is Testing 1.36 — Is the Pound Ready for a New Bullish Phase? Market analysis by Strifor analysts The British pound is once again approaching a potentially decisive area against the U.S. dollar...
Final Trading Week of August: Key Market Levels, Oil, Bitcoin, Forex and Jackson Hole The final trading week of August begins with several major developments that could shape financial markets across currencies, commodities, equities and cryptocurrencies. Geopolitical tensions, movements in the U...
