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PositionAlpha Review: Building MT4 and MT5 Trading Bots Without Writing Code
A quick tour of every feature: what it does, and who it’s for. Each one gets its own deep dive in separate posts and videos. If you’ve ever had a trading i…
Why Most Prop Firm Challenges Are Designed to Fail
The proprietary trading firm industry has exploded over the past five years. What was once a niche corner of retail trading has become a multi-hundred-mill…
Trend Following EAs: When They Work and When They Die
The graveyard of abandoned MetaTrader accounts is filled with trend-following Expert Advisors that worked beautifully in backtests but imploded in live tra…
Why 90% of Profitable Backtests Are Useless
Why 90% of Profitable Backtests Are Useless I’ve reviewed thousands of backtests over the years. Most show beautiful equity curves, impressive Sharpe ratio…
Why most retail traders misuse ATR (and how to actually use it)
Average True Range (ATR) is everywhere in retail trading literature. Open any book on technical analysis, watch any trading YouTube channel, or browse trad…
Fundamentals in FX Trading: Must-Know Events That Move Markets
If you’ve ever watched your currency pair spike 100 pips in seconds and wondered “what the hell just happened,” chances are you stumbled into a major econo…
Coding Custom Indicators in MQL5: A Practical Guide for Algo Traders
If you’ve been trading algorithmically on MetaTrader 5, you’ve probably reached that point where the built-in indicators just don’t cut it anymore. Maybe y…
Correlations in the FX Market: The Hidden Leverage You Didn’t Know You Had
Most traders understand position sizing. They calculate their risk per trade, set their stop losses, and feel confident they’ve got their exposure under co…
Backtest #1 — Trailing stop, good idea or not?
Backtest #1 — Trailing stop, good idea or not? When designing a trading strategy, one of the important questions is: Is trailing stop-loss a good idea, or …
Forex Trading Sessions: Why You Need to Use Them
If you’ve been running trading bots on the forex market and wondering why your backtests look like a rollercoaster of doom, there’s a good chance you’re ig…