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Crude oil closed at 81.518 on Friday. Three charts of the same instrument, three different measurements, and they do not agree with each other. That is not a fault in any of them. It is what happens when you ask three questions that only sound like the same question...
Before Judging MoonDog After One or Two Weeks MoonDog is not a holy grail. It can have losing trades, drawdown and quiet weeks. If you start using it just as a difficult period begins, your first results may be negative...
Demo version of Trade panel MT4/MT5 Full version for MT4 Full version for MT5 How to get rid of unprofitable positions in the grid by covering them with profitable positions...
How to Audit Request-to-Deal Execution Logs Before Trusting Multi-Asset MT5 Systems Automated trading systems for MetaTrader 5 are often evaluated on one criterion: whether the signal logic looks reasonable. Traders inspect indicator parameters, review a backtest equity curve, and form a judgment...
WHY 90% OF PROP FIRM TRADERS FAIL THE NEW YORK SESSION (AND HOW TO FIX IT) Every funded trader knows the statistics. Most challenge accounts die within weeks...
Did you ever try to use AI to build a trading strategy? Let me guess… It didn't work? I see from time to time people reporting how bad AI (or LLMs in general) is at trading...
The worst monthly drawdown in my portfolio history is 277 USD on the reference balance. The number is correct. I still do not plan with it. Here is why. History gave us one order of months: this losing month, then that winning month, in one exact sequence...
What the Source Actually Says According to Stephen Innes, Global Strategist at Quintex Intel, writing for Investing.com , Asian equity markets are inheriting a constructive setup from Wall Street heading into Friday's session...
A Winning Trade Can Be a Bad Trade: Why Process Matters More Than One Outcome A trader ignores the plan, enters late, risks too much and gets lucky. The trade wins. Another trader waits patiently, follows a well-defined setup, manages risk correctly and takes a loss...
If you have ever watched a winning trade slowly turn into a loss because you didn't move your stop loss in time, you already understand the single most expensive mistake in trading...
Last week I wrote that gold had finally cracked out of the airless range it spent a month building, running hard into the $4,360–$4,380 zone. The obvious question after a move like that is always the same one: does it hold, or does it hand it all back...
The dollar remained weak last week after US CPI inflation slowed to 3.4%. EUR/USD tested the key 1.1580-1.1600 resistance zone on Friday, reached 1.1585 and closed near 1.1570. Gold hit a two-month high of 4,450 before correcting to 4,376. bitcoin fell from 65,100 to 62,830 amid ETF outflows...
Welcome to a new review of the Funded Gold advisor. To make my EA evaluation more transparent, I continue to publish all closed positions without exception. Trades are shown as they are closed and then combined into a summary for the selected trading period...
Gold does not trade like a currency pair, and treating it like one is how most XAUUSD accounts die...
AstroTrade Trading Copilot Current Capabilities & Example Questions Build: 1.2 Mode: Fully Offline / Rule-Based / No LLM / English Only ============================================================ 1. WHAT THIS CHAT IS...
For a year we tried to optimize single strategies into something spectacular. The honest ceiling kept landing in the same place: a good trend system on one market wins roughly 6-7 years out of 8, with losing years of -5% to -8% in between...
Over the next several months I am going to publish the full incubation record of one Expert Advisor — a session breakout system on gold, M15 — from validation through live forward testing. Not the marketing version. The actual record, including the parts where nothing worked...
