📌 Market Sentiment — Rules (read before posting)

[Dave]

This section is for discussing market sentiment, positioning, risk-on/risk-off conditions, news impact, macro context, and trader expectations. If you've got a read on where the market is headed and the reasoning to back it up, this is the place to share it.

Basic conduct

• Back up your calls with something. "Everyone's long EUR/USD so it's going down" is a starting point, not an argument. Show the data or the logic behind it.
• Disagree with someone's read? Good, that's what makes a market. Keep it civil and stick to the analysis.
• Don't dismiss contrarian views outright. Sentiment analysis exists precisely because the crowd is often wrong at the extremes.

Promotion & advertising

• Do not promote sentiment tools, paid data services, or signal products without admin approval.
• Mentioning a tool you use for context is fine. Building a thread around it to drive sign-ups is not.
• Referral links get removed without warning.
• DMing members to push sentiment services will get you banned.

Posting standards

• When posting a sentiment-based view, include the source: COT report, broker positioning data, macro release, whatever you're working from. "Sentiment is bearish" with no source isn't useful.
• Specify the timeframe and context. Short-term retail sentiment and long-term institutional positioning are very different things and mixing them up causes confusion.
• If your call didn't play out, post the follow-up. The misses are often more instructive than the wins.

Other things that'll get your post removed

• Vague predictions dressed up as sentiment analysis with nothing behind them.
• Posts that are clearly just promotion for a paid signal service using sentiment as a hook.
• Off-topic content that belongs in the brokers or tools sections.

Warnings for minor stuff, bans for anything deliberate or repeated.
Not sure if something fits here, message a mod before posting.

— ForexRoasted Team