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    • We're Paid to Take Risks: Embracing the Calculated Gamble in Trading

      Exploring the often-misunderstood role of risk in trading, and how a calculated approach to risk-taking can be the key to profitability.

    • Top 10 Best Trading Indicators for Successful Trading Strategies

    • Statistical Arbitrage: A Comprehensive Guide to Profitable Trading Strategies

    • Mastering Stat Arb Trading: Boost Your Profits with Statistical Arbitrage Strategies

    • Why You Struggle to Pass Prop Firm Challenges: Proven Strategies and Tips

      Explore why traders struggle with prop firm challenges and discover effective strategies to overcome these hurdles. Learn about risk management, automated trading solutions, and the impact of the MyForexFunds collapse.

    • The Siren Song of the Trading Chatroom: How Groups Can Hinder More Than Help

      Trading groups can offer support and camaraderie, but they can also be a major source of distraction and lead to impulsive, unprofitable decisions. Learn how to navigate the pitfalls.

    • Trading Psychology: Beyond Entry, SL and TP, How to Profit

      Examining the mental and emotional hurdles in successful trading.

    • The Great Stop Loss Debate: Tight vs. Wide, or No Stop at All?

      Exploring the endless debate over stop-loss placement in trading: tight, wide, or none at all? We examine the arguments and offer a balanced perspective.

    • Decoding the Trader's Lexicon: A (Slightly) Sarcastic Guide to Trading Jargon

      Demystifying the weird and wonderful world of trading lingo. From FOMO to FUD, we've got you covered.

    • The Illusion of Precision: Why Exact Entry Points Don't Matter as Much as You Think

      Chasing the perfect entry in trading? This post argues that focusing on zones, risk management, and overall direction is more important than pinpoint accuracy.

    • Trading the News: High-Risk Gamble or Calculated Opportunity?

      Exploring the volatile world of news trading in forex and other markets. Is it a fool's errand or a path to profit?

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    • How to trade range breaks and breakouts

      What is a range break, and how should you trade it?

    • My trading checklist - for consistency

      Keep yourself on track with a checklist for every trade and session

    • How trading, jazz, freestyling are neurally correlated

      Ideas to unlock and control your trading potential

    • One final hestitation before starting

      Some further delays and prep work to do

    • Further work on trading system stability

      Ensuring I know what I'm doing going into next challenge

    • Starting the prop challenge retry

      Time to get the next prop challenge started, but first some prep

    • Return to breakeven - a prop story

      Recovery operation completed, with notes on how

    • Prop challenge account recovery journal

      How I am recovering a prop account that swung down to over -2%

    • Supply, demand and liquidity - uses and automation

      How to make use of supply, demand and liquidity zones for better entries and exits

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    • Starting a prop challenge in 2022

      Considerations for starting a new prop firm challenge in 2022

    • The Wikipedia Trading Course

      Using Wikipedia to kickstart your trading education

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    • Find support and resistance automatically

      How to approach Support and Resistance plotting with automation

    • Rogue waves and chaos theory in financial markets

      Can the chaotic swings of the Earth's oceans be mirrored in financial markets?

    • Demo of trading bot for forex - an intro

      A diversified automated forex trading system that swings and scalps

    • Displaying live price quotes (and world times and unread email) in your i3status bar

      Save clicks by displaying live prices, world times and email unread counts in your standard i3status bar

    • Ultimate guide to ranging and trending market indicators

      Showing the best trending and ranging market indicators for MT4/5, TradingView, cTrader for forex, stocks or crypto

    • Moving stoploss to breakeven - protect capital or lose profit?

      A brief analysis of the cost benefit analysis of moving stops to breakeven, and different risk management strategies

    • Trading currency strength divergences

      When the currencies in a pair diverge you have trend conditions - can you trade these profitably?

    • Forex, CFD or currency trading for beginners or dummies

      A few signposts for where to start in FX trading, why to do it and how to trade small or large accounts

    • Mythbusting: Recovering a trading account after a losing streak

      Is it really many times harder to recover after a losing streak?

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