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How can you calculate risk per trade and choose a position size in MT5? Risk management starts not with choosing a lot size, but with deciding how much capital you are prepared to risk...

Technical Analysis October 20, 2026 Overview The main themes today are euro weakness, strength in CAD/JPY and crude oil, and selling pressure across equity indices. In FX, EUR/USD and USD/CAD are rated strong sell across all timeframes...

Today’s Options Situation October 20, 2026 Spot Rates EUR/USD: 1.1231 USD/JPY: 158.23 GBP/USD: 1.3328 USD/CHF: 0.8248 USD/CAD: 1.4082 AUD/USD: 0.6983 NZD/USD: 0.5673 EUR/GBP: 0.8422 Today — October 20 EUR/USD 1.1250: €790 million 1.1265: €4.1 billion — largest 1.1275: €573 million 1...

Today’s Market Outlook October 20, 2026 Dollar weakness and yen buying dominate; sterling stands out after UK employment improves Market Overview Dollar selling and yen buying are somewhat dominant today, against a backdrop of falling U.S. long-term yields and weakness in Asian equities. The U.S...

Many beginners postpone learning about Forex because they believe trading requires a large amount of money. But do you really need thousands of dollars to start learning how the market works...

Your EUR/USD call finishes above its strike, yet the trade loses money. That can feel contradictory until you separate two questions: did the option have a positive payoff, and did that payoff cover what you paid? The strike answers the first question...

Why Gold? What Makes XAUUSD Different To Trade...

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We took the published MT5 backtests of 8 of our EAs, split each by calendar year, and asked how much of the whole-test net profit the single best year produced. This article uses backtests only. It contains no forward-account figures. Figures are as of 2026-10-18...

Is 2% a lot for gold today? On EURUSD a 2% day would be extreme; on gold it is close to an ordinary day. Daily Range Stats stops the guessing: it measures every day on the symbol's own history and puts today on that scale. Three questions it answers How big is a normal day here...

Most traders pick their lot size the same way. They try a few sizing rules on their history (a fixed lot, a percentage of balance, a multiple of the tested size) and keep the one that gives the most growth at a drawdown they can live with. It feels like research...

A trading drawdown gives way to a new wave of growth, and ONE MAN ARMY once again delights us with good profit percentages. No grid or martingale. Safe deposit growth every day...

XAUUSD: SELL 4179.05-4178.00, TP1-4075.55, TP2-3912.55. Long-term trend: long. The maximum accumulation of volumes for the current contract is located in the range with quotes 4133.00–4183.00...

Your Drawdown Limit Should Be Set Above Your Broker's Margin Call Level, Not Your Comfort Level Product link: https://www.mql5.com/en/ market/product/191385 Most traders choose a drawdown limit based on what feels tolerable...

Copy trading a signal lets you mirror the performance of a specific strategy directly in your MetaTrader 5 terminal without needing to manage the logic yourself...

Numbers without context mean nothing, so here is how the Smart Liquidity Gold backtest was built and what it shows...

The most expensive assumption in automated trading is that one entry model should work in every market. A trend follower needs sustained movement. A breakout system needs compression followed by expansion. A mean-reversion system needs price to return toward a stable center...

Disclosure: I build and sell Caelion Gold Pro on the MQL5 Market. I do not sell Quantum Queen X (QQX). Every figure below comes from my own MT5 Strategy Tester runs on IC Markets XAUUSD data...

If you trade from order blocks, you know the picture: setups form on different symbols and timeframes at different times. While you flip to the tenth chart, price on the third has already reached its zone — and left. Ten or twenty charts by hand: a missed setup or a late one...

Mother is mothering. Today, Sandstorm closed a standalone gold short after 85 minutes , adding 1.14% and bringing October’s live return to 14.02% . All eight modules have now contributed positively...