On 19 August I went long XAUUSD on the M5 and planned the trade for about 2R. Gold kept going. It ran roughly 130 points past my entry. I chose that 2R target. The software did not choose it for me, and it does not close trades at 2R by default. Here is what happened between my entry and my exit...
Trading Spot Gold (XAUUSD) on the M1 timeframe after high-volatility macro swings is a double-edged sword...
It is the same ritual every single morning. You grab the Fibonacci tool, you hunt for yesterday's high and low, you drag, you snap, you nudge the anchor points, and you pray you clicked the right candles...
A trendline break looks like one event. Price reaches the line, something happens, a trade opens. But "something happens" is not one rule. It is six different rules, and each one answers the same question differently: at what exact moment does a touch become a trade...
GoldPro is an automated trading Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4/5 that includes several independent trading modes: Classic Mode Scalping Mode Ultra Scalping Mode Each mode has its own approach to trade entries, position management and risk control...
Review not only what you traded, but what the chart looked like when you traded it. Most trading histories answer a few basic questions: what was opened, where was it closed, and what was the result...
Yes, I use StrategyQuant, and it is the front door of my entire strategy pipeline: it generates trading strategies in volume, backtests them against historical data, and hands me candidates. And no, it is not the edge...
How to trade while maintaining a set risk level and how to open orders without wasting time calculating their volume? Demo version of Trade panel MT4/MT5 Full version for MT4 Full version for MT5 For example, you need to risk 2% of your balance on each trade...
The Hull Moving Average: how it removes lag without losing smoothness Every moving average trades responsiveness for smoothness. Shorten the period and the line follows price closely but wanders; lengthen it and the line settles down but arrives late...
Gold on the M1 timeframe moves fast. A clean, directional surge can look unstoppable for several minutes-until momentum stalls, liquidity shifts, and price enters a sharp corrective phase. For discretionary scalpers, this transition is where most account drawdowns occur...
Candlestick patterns are among the most widely used tools in price action analysis. Patterns such as Hammer, Engulfing, Morning Star and Shooting Star are easy to recognize in theory, but manual identification can become subjective when dozens or hundreds of candles must be analyzed...
Why the most promising pair in a backtest is not always the best pair for live trading When developing an automated Forex strategy, one of the first questions is usually: Which currency pairs should the EA trade? At first glance, this looks like a relatively simple problem...
MoonDog EA trades XAUUSD breakouts using pending orders. For this type of strategy, choosing the right broker is extremely important...
Most traders who fail an evaluation on a daily loss limit do not fail because they took a bad trade. They fail because they were measuring the day from the wrong starting point. Your firm's daily loss limit is not measured against a calendar day...
What Happened—and What the Source Actually Says On Monday, August 17, long-dated government bond yields surged to levels not seen in decades across several major economies simultaneously...
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