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the troll names a genuine risk, ive seen people trade for the journal audience. the counter is to commit upfront to logging every trade including the embarrassing ones, and to value the ugly entries most. if you only post clean wins youve built a highlight reel, not a journal. public can still work, but only with a rule that the losers and the dumb mistakes go up too, in full.

did the CTI program in 2024. finished but didnt pursue funded after passing. the 60-day evaluation actually genuinely tests trading consistency more than profit hunger which i respect. but their funded rules felt overly restrictive for my style. ymmv.

ill start with a useful negative. traded a mid-size firm for eight months, got funded, took three payouts cleanly, then they changed the drawdown rule with short notice and it no longer fit my style. no scam, paid every time, but the rule instability made it not worth continuing. lesson: a firm paying reliably can still become unusable if they keep changing terms. payout history matters, but so does rule stability.

ive been trading supply/demand zones for 3 years. used to be incredibly reliable on 4H and daily. lately ive noticed:

• zones get tagged and reverse but with much shallower retracements
• 'fresh' zones (untested) seem less reliable than year ago
• HTF zones still respect but LTF (15m, 5m) zones feel almost dead

starting to think algos have learned to fade these zones differently. anyone else seeing the same? or is my edge just getting old?

i strongly disagree that gold is a mean reverter at any meaningful timeframe in 2026. since central banks started accumulating heavily, gold has been in a structural macro uptrend with mean reversion only as noise around the trend. the rules of pre-2020 dont apply.

fair hit, and the fix is to make it accountable: people should come back at the end of the week and say how their read played out, including the misses. i will, ill report whether my two levels even got hit and what i did. a watchlist thread is only useful if the follow-up happens. lets make returning to mark the result part of the format, not just the confident monday post.

build it from your own one setup, not from our reads. go through the pairs you know and mark only the ones approaching your specific setup condition. it doesnt matter if its different from ours, what matters is that you can state why each one is on your list in terms of your own rules. copying our watchlist teaches you nothing, building a small one from your own criteria, even imperfectly, builds the actual skill.

gold is both, in different timeframes simultaneously. weekly chart: trender, driven by macro. 4H/1H: mean reverter, prices oscillate around moving averages. daily: hybrid, depends on regime. the trick is matching strategy timeframe to character expressed at that timeframe.

rebrand to 'admirals' was almost entirely cosmetic for actual trading operations. execution quality on their fca entity has been steady through and after. they invested in their education product which made them more visible to beginners but didnt change the core broker experience for active traders.

switched from ic markets to fp markets 2 months ago, mainly because their cTrader feels snappier on my setup. but lately ive been noticing weird slippage on news on fp, while ic was rock solid even during nfp.

spreads are pretty much the same on raw accounts. commissions identical. so the only diff for me is execution quality and platform feel.

anyone running both side by side? want to know if im just being paranoid or if fp really does slip more at high volatility times.

traded hotforex/hf markets for 4 years total. the rebrand was mostly cosmetic but they did upgrade their trading infrastructure around the same time. execution actually improved slightly. customer service quality stayed about the same. account types and conditions unchanged.

us based, traded forex.com for 5 years until 2023. quality wise: solid, no withdrawal drama ever, reasonable execution. cost wise: more expensive than ic markets or pepperstone. for US traders the broker options are limited by regulation, forex.com is actually one of the better US-regulated choices. outside US there are cheaper alternatives.

@newbie practically: less slippage during news events, more reliable fills on large orders, faster execution by a few milliseconds (matters for high frequency, less for swing). for retail size and timeframes the difference is real but small. it becomes meaningful if youre running automated strategies at significant volume.