sticking to the boring old firms then
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prop firm payouts and taxes - how is everyone handling thiswhat do you put on tax forms when its from a prop firm in like dubai or seychelles? the broker isnt in your country
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doji ea - someone posted a myfxbook, looks too smoothchecked, floating dd is massive. martingale confirmed. dodged it
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is keeping a trading journal actually worth the effortok ill start one. keeping it to 5 fields
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how many hours a day do i realistically need to put in as a beginneri have a full time job and can give maybe one to two focused hours in the evening plus weekends. is that enough to actually get somewhere as a beginner, or is trading one of those things where if you cant stare at charts all day you shouldnt bother? trying to set realistic expectations before i commit.
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ultimamarkets for a 100 dollar learning account, any traps?ill follow, post the journal
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breakout strategies keep catching false breakouts, how do you filter themi like trading breakouts but the false ones are killing me, price breaks the level, i enter, then it snaps right back and stops me out. the real breakouts pay well but the fakeouts bleed me between them. how do experienced breakout traders filter out the false ones, or is a certain failure rate just the cost of the style?
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the 90% lose stat, is it the brokers fault or oursits us. mostly us
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how do i actually calculate lot size, the math confuses me0.05 lots for my example, got it. thank you
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is startrader actually legit, withdrawals fast?1 withdrawal 450 bucks, 22h. adding my data point
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support and resistance basics, still the foundation in 2026how do you actually identify good SR levels? everywhere price has touched seems like a level
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lux trading firm, evaluation experience and funded programwhy would anyone skip the eval if its cheaper? sounds like wasted money
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what actually belongs in a trading journal beyond just entry and exithow do you record emotional state in a way thats useful and not just writing 'felt nervous' every time?
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how much should i actually deposit as a complete beginnerseeing wildly different advice. some say start with 50 dollars so you cant lose much, others say thats pointless and youll never learn proper risk on such a tiny account. as a beginner whats the actual right amount to put in a first live account, after demo?
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swap rates are eating my swing trade profits - how to compare brokers properlydoes the three-day swap on wednesday actually mean you pay three times as much, or is it the same total as paying it spread over three nights?
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is there any real reason left to stay on mt4 in 2026is mql5 really that different from mql4? i can read basic mql4 and tweak inputs but im not a real programmer.
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city traders imperium, anyone here actually using themis 60 days even enough to evaluate a trader? feels like a lot of luck still in that timeframe
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my road to consistency journal, month 1, brutal honesty editionstarting a public journal to keep myself honest. the deal i made with myself: every trade goes here, especially the embarrassing ones. month 1 summary, slightly down overall, but the real story is that my planned trades were net positive and my impulsive ones erased them. posting the ugly truth so future me cant pretend it went better than it did. will update weekly.
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lcg london capital group, anyone trading with them currentlyis FCA actually meaningfully better than other tier 1 regulators? or just famous?
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xm execution feels worse than 6 months ago, am i alone?how do you actually measure slippage? do you just look at where the stop hit vs where you set it?