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us fx market is suboptimal i agree but oanda has been good to me stopped chasing offshore options after a friend got his account frozen for 8 months at fxcm offshore. not worth the hassle

appreciate you sharing this. currently in a similar place after stopping mine. going to write that reset entry today. the honest part is hard but so is continuing to drift.

i got into the tier rebate then completely fell off because i took a break for a month, dropped two tiers, took 3 months to climb back. the reset is brutal plan around it

just finished my first month live trading. smaller account, real money. want to document the mistakes in a thread that might help others. post yours if you have them - the specific ones, not the generic 'i was emotional' type.

honestly the multi-core backtesting alone sold me my optimization runs went from overnight to like 20 minutes. if you optimize parameters at all that one feature pays for the whole migration headache.

i went full time, hated it, went back, and now i trade better part-time than i did full-time the lesson for me was that having a non-trading source of income made me a better trader because i could be patient. trading needs patience

this is the most useful prop thread ive read because the failures are in it too every other review source only shows the funded screenshots. seeing the four-fails-then-pass reality is what i actually needed.

they still work for me on daily and weekly the key is HTF only. anyone trying to scalp 5m zones is fighting machines that already mapped your level. zoom out. patience.

rooting for you on this my month 1 was the same and i wish id had a public log keeping me honest back then. subscribing to follow your month 2, please keep posting the ugly ones, theyre the useful ones.

admirals helped me transition from beginner to consistent trader their podcast and webinars were genuinely valuable. then i graduated to a better-tooled broker but i have fond memories

@newbie ECN = Electronic Communications Network. theoretically your trades are matched against other market participants directly, with the broker just facilitating. in practice many retail 'ECN' brokers still internally aggregate before sending to liquidity providers, but the spreads tend to be tighter than market-maker accounts. think of it as 'closer to interbank pricing' not 'directly trading interbank'.