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How do you calculate the appropriate lot size for gold, oil, or a stock index in MetaTrader 5? For these instruments, a standard approach to position sizing may not be sufficient...

Multi Risk Manager Pro: How to Use the Risk-to-Reward Box in MetaTrader 5 / 4 Planning a trade before entering the market can help traders understand the relationship between entry price, potential loss, and potential profit...

Collie Gold 1.12 is out. It is a free update for everyone who bought or rented Collie, and it brings small adjustments to Collie's core, made for the way gold has been moving lately. Most of the time, it trades exactly as in 1.11...

In posts from October 8 the vulnerability of the AI arms race was considered: building data centers requires huge investments, and high interest rates increase the cost of borrowing. At that time, FreshForex analysts expected increased pressure on #NQ100 and #SP500...

Every gold robot loses sometimes. The real question is which way of losing your account can survive. Most traders pick a gold EA by its backtest curve, but multi-level and scalping robots lose in completely different ways, and that difference matters more than any curve...

By Cree Lawson Setting two EAs to one lot each makes one input look consistent. It doesn't automatically make their risk comparable. One could trade a different instrument, use a wider stop, hold positions longer or open several trades at once...

In forex trading, every opportunity comes with risk. The difference between a disciplined trader and a reckless one isn't how many trades they take. It's how well they understand what they're risking to achieve a potential reward...

Two new indicators joined the Honest Stats series this week: ICT Order Blocks Honest Stats and ICT Market Structure Honest Stats , both for MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4...

I develop AetherRetrace at D7 Bots for traders who want selective EURUSD trading with short exposure rather than constant activity. It is designed for bearish market conditions and price corrections...

A Rough Stretch, Shown In Public...

FX Options Overview — October 16, 2026 Spot rates at publication: EUR/USD 1.1212; USD/JPY 158.13; GBP/USD 1.3269; USD/CHF 0.8279; USD/CAD 1.4195; AUD/USD 0.6921; NZD/USD 0.5623; EUR/GBP 0.8449. Today — October 16 EUR/USD 1.1160 — EUR 765 million 1.1200 — EUR 1.30 billion 1.1225 — EUR 2...

The dollar remained under pressure today, while a recovery in equities also weighed on the yen, leaving USD/JPY trading around 158. This week’s U.S. CPI and PPI pointed to persistent inflation, but dollar gains did not continue...

Today’s main themes are improving conditions in sterling and yen crosses, relative strength in the Swiss franc, and rebounds in gold and European and U.S. equity indices. GBP/USD and GBP/JPY have improved to a bullish daily bias...

You've got an EA, maybe a free one, and you want to know if it's any good before it touches your account. The MT5 Strategy Tester gives you a beautiful curve in thirty seconds. That's the problem. Knowing how to backtest an EA on MT5 is mostly knowing which of those thirty seconds lied to you...

FX Options Overview — October 16, 2026 Spot rates at publication: EUR/USD 1.1212; USD/JPY 158.13; GBP/USD 1.3269; USD/CHF 0.8279; USD/CAD 1.4195; AUD/USD 0.6921; NZD/USD 0.5623; EUR/GBP 0.8449. Today’s expiries EUR/USD: 1.1160 (EUR 765m), 1.1200 (EUR 1.30bn), 1.1225 (EUR 2.30bn, largest), and 1...

Understanding Smart Money Concepts: BOS, CHoCH, Liquidity and FVG in MetaTrader 5 Introduction Why does price sometimes break a previous high and then reverse sharply? Why do some breakouts continue while others fail...

📊 A trading robot may show impressive profits in historical testing, but does that mean it will perform the same way in live markets? Not necessarily. Test results depend on the market period, algorithm settings, historical data quality, and the broker's order execution conditions...

Every trend robot looks good in a year when its market trends up. The year a buyer should ask about is the other one. For Bitcoin that was 2022, the bear year...

Strategy Assistant MT5 – Complete User Guide 1. Introduction Strategy Assistant is a multi-strategy trading indicator for MetaTrader 5 that brings popular chart patterns, candlestick patterns, and trend analysis tools together in one interactive dashboard...

EURUSD: The euro is supported by declining US bond yields: dollar investments become less attractive. Amid concerns over artificial intelligence spending, investors are buying US debt, but the currency itself has not yet benefited from this...