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Register Loginok mods said make a thread for intros so the pinned one stays clean. drop how long youve traded (live not demo dont lie), what brokers, what you trade. one thing you wish someone told you early.
ill go: 6 years, mostly majors + gold. pepperstone now, was on exness till the leverage thing. lesson = size kills you not the entry
ive been manually checking charts for price hitting levels and its eating my day. mt5 has the built-in alert system but the conditions you can set are limited. wrote a custom mql5 script to alert me when:
big improvement for not staring at screens. wanted to share and ask: what custom alerts have other traders built that saved them significant time?
classical london breakout: identify the asian session range, trade the breakout in either direction with stop at the opposite end of the range. used to be one of the most reliable retail strategies.
in 2026 the straight breakout fails too often (algos hunt the obvious stops). the variants ive seen people pivot to:
curious whats actually working for london open scalpers in 2026.
i run mt5 on my desktop, a laptop and a vps. keeping templates, custom indicators and chart layouts in sync between all three is driving me insane. i set something up on the desktop, then have to manually copy files to the other two and i always forget one.
whats your actual workflow for this? not looking for theory, want to know what people really do day to day.
pinning this cause same questions come up daily. before you give a broker a cent:
one broker = one thread pls. dont make 9 threads for the same broker
for beginners and anyone fuzzy on the mechanics. orders, leverage, margin, lot sizes, sessions, risk. ask here instead of cluttering the broker threads.
one thing before you ask anything else: risk per trade. if you take away ONE thing from this whole forum let it be "dont risk more than 1-2% of your account on a single trade". more people die from sizing than from bad entries. ok go, no dumb questions here (well, some, but ask anyway)
this is where we tear apart trading bots. one rule above all: no fake backtests. backtests are marketing, anyone can curve fit a 9999% backtest on optimised history.
if you post results: myfxbook link to a REAL account, or a verified track record. demo results and backtests can be discussed but label them as such, dont present a backtest as "results".
post your set files, your logs, argue about the algos. no "buy my ea" links, thats an instant ban
this section is for the ugly math behind the industry. why deposit bonuses are a trap, how prop firms make money off you failing, why "review" sites lie, signal sellers, copy trading, all of it.
no proof needed here like in the scam section, this is more discussion + opinions + experience. but back up big claims with numbers or logic, dont just vibe.
start wherever. theres a lot to unpack and most of it youll never hear from a youtube "mentor"
practical question. trade is up 1R, my target is 2R. price has been slow-grinding upward for 3 hours. structure says target is reachable but momentum is fading.
options:
i used to default to #1 (taking the win). lately ive been doing #2 and watching half my trades come back to break-even after hours of being up. what's actually optimal?
Alright. Quick one because nobody reads long pinned posts anyway.
Rules:
thats it. introduce yourself in the intro thread, not here. have fun, dont get scammed.
most traders i know specialize in either trend or range conditions. trend followers crush in clear directional markets and get murdered in choppy ranges. range traders thrive in consolidations and get steamrolled when ranges break out.
can a trader effectively switch styles based on market regime, or does specialization win? for those who actually trade both modes: how do you detect regime change and adapt?
doing some honest self review. all the intraday strategies i grind on are barely beating breakeven in 2026. meanwhile my weekly timeframe positions (i hold 3-6 weeks usually) have quietly been my most profitable thing for 2 years running.
the strategy is dead simple: weekly close above 20 EMA = long bias, below = short. enter on first daily pullback to a clean level. stop below structure. let it run.
win rate is 'only' 45% but R is 3.2. annualized return on the strategy alone is hitting 18%.
anyone else finding that the simple slow strategies are quietly outperforming all the complex stuff?
hit my profit, requested a payout, and it was denied citing a consistency-type rule i honestly didnt know existed. im upset but also trying to be fair, maybe it was buried in terms i skimmed. for those whove been here, is there any real recourse when a payout is denied on a rule, or is it just a hard lesson in reading the fine print?
opening range breakout (ORB) was a classic intraday strategy: mark the high and low of the first X minutes of a session, trade breakouts of that range. used to work well on US session open.
has algo dominance killed this strategy? or are there refinements that still produce edge in 2026? for those still running ORB variations: whats the current playbook?
blew my account three weeks ago, a revenge-trade spiral after one bad loss. instead of quitting im starting this log to rebuild properly and publicly so it cant happen the same way again. funded a small fresh account, halved my risk, and im posting every trade and every emotional state. day 1 of rebuilding. if this helps even one person not do what i did, good.
the recurring pain: right at the rollover hour, around major news, and in the late friday close, spreads balloon and fills degrade on my broker. its predictable yet still costs me. for experienced traders, do you just avoid trading those windows entirely, or is there a smarter way to handle the thin-liquidity moments?
honest question. SMC, ICT methodology, order blocks, FVGs, liquidity sweeps, BOS, CHoCH - i tried to learn it all over the last year. there are sections that genuinely added to my trading (the concept of liquidity grabs, internal range liquidity), and sections that feel like classical TA with a fancy name (order blocks = supply/demand zones with extra rules).
is there actually new alpha here or is the whole thing a marketing layer over what we already knew? curious from people who actually traded both classic TA AND SMC seriously.
the more i study trading, the more i realize 'market structure' means different things to different traders:
these all describe similar things with different vocabulary. for those whove studied multiple schools: do any add real edge beyond classic TA, or is it mostly the same concepts repackaged?
debating whether to run my actual strategy during an evaluation or a deliberately safer, smaller version tuned to respect the drawdown. part of me thinks i should trade exactly what ill trade when funded so the pass is meaningful. another part says do whatever it takes to get funded then trade normally. whats the right call?
