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Your strategy chooses the trades, but your firm's rulebook keeps the account alive. Before paying for an EA or a challenge, check EA use, news trading, account type and loss limits. An EA does not know your firm's rules unless you check them for it. Why do good trades still break the rules...

XAUUSD punishes generic settings. Gold can compress quietly, accelerate around macro events and travel far enough to make a fixed stop or grid interval behave very differently from the same number on a major currency pair...

In one minute Gold Beaver trades gold. Ethereum Beast trades Ethereum (ETH). They do not move together. We set every robot to the same risk: about 15% maximum drawdown. Combo Safe + Ethereum Beast: $10,000 became $51.4 million (x5,136) . Combo Safe alone: $2.4 million (x238...

This is the third post in my series on the seven trading sins behind my blown accounts. The first two were Wrath, the revenge trade, and Lust, meddling with an EA. If I had to pick the two sins that cost me the most, it would be Wrath and this one. What it looked like? A trade went against me...

Which FX Pairs Do Published Algo Specifications Name Most? By Cree Lawson / Prismatic Algos When choosing a symbol for a new EA, it helps to know what other builders describe . It is equally important not to confuse that count with a proven edge...

20 October 2026 · Technical guide · AI-assisted writing, checked against source and a reproducible calculation Your account is up, but one EA still has an open loss...

AureonNexus 1.10 — Updated Trading, Clearer Control AureonNexus 1.10 is now available on the MQL5 Market. Designed for XAUUSD trading on MetaTrader 5, the EA combines three independently managed strategies with configurable position sizing, automated trade management and integrated chart panels...

Prop Firm Risk Management in Multi Risk Manager Pro: Daily Drawdown, Equity Limits and Profit Targets Prop firm trading requires more than finding trading opportunities...

Trading multiple currency pairs can create more opportunities in the forex market. But there's a hidden risk many traders overlook, different trades can expose your account to the same underlying currency risk...

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...