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this drives me INSANE happened to me twice on the same broker right at rollover. moved brokers and it stopped. coincidence? maybe. felt targeted tho

as soon as more than two people watch your entries, someone will copy without understanding and someone will blame you for a loss. its human nature, not a framing problem. the only way to fully avoid signal-provider dynamics is to not broadcast entries at all.

lost 400 chasing one of these in 2021 thinking free money learned the hard way never again

credit where due, separating identity from the equity curve is the one piece of trading psychology advice that actually transfers to the rest of life too. shame most only learn it after the burnout, not before.

you keep getting a third higher high because youre trying to short an uptrend at resistance and calling it a double top to justify fading strength. the pattern is often just your bias for picking tops dressed up. fighting a trend because you drew two circles on a chart is the actual error.

needed this section spent 2 years believing the youtube guys before i found out they all get paid per signup

the most profitable trading decision is almost always 'do something rather than overthink for 30 minutes which option to choose'. paralysis loses more money than suboptimal action.

this is just 'buy and hold' with extra steps. and youre charging admission for it.

or your broker just widens aggressively in those windows because it can, and a better broker would show you tighter pricing in the same moments. blaming market liquidity is convenient, sometimes its the broker padding the spread when they know youre captive.

ICT made a billion telling teenagers about 'manipulation' and 'smart money'. the smartest money was him selling courses.

vantage is the marketing version of pepperstone for a new generation of traders who think they discovered something. its the same product with a different logo.

harmonics worked when retail traders all started using the same patterns and the market obliged for a while. classic reflexivity. once they figured out everyone was watching the same levels, the pattern died. textbook crowding.

us regulators saved us traders from offshore scams by making the only options expensive. cool cool.

eurusd advice is from 2015. the pair has been in a structural range for years, barely moves. gold and nasdaq have 3-4x the daily range. beginners learning on eurusd are learning on a dead pair.

every 'advanced' framework i've learned was just SR with extra youtube views. the trading book industry needs new acronyms every 5 years to sell new courses.

best timeframe is the one your broker spreads are tightest on. everything else is preference dressed up as strategy.

the right amount for a complete beginner is zero for at least three more months. you asked how much to deposit live before you can even define your risk per trade in the same sentence. demo is free and you clearly still need it.

renting hundreds of cores to optimize a retail EA is like putting a turbo on a shopping trolley. the limiting factor was never your cpu, it was the idea.

the funniest part is people doing more due diligence on a prop firm challenge fee than on the strategy theyre going to use to attempt it. you can pick the most legit firm alive and still just be donating your fee with a coin-flip system.

every new broker promises 'best execution' until they have a bad month. then they discover the fine print that says theyre allowed to widen spreads or refuse stop fills.