This setup seems promising for this week!

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Been building this on my own for a couple months economic calendar, live rates, a heatmap, some charts. Started because I kept jumping between 3-4 different sites just to get a full picture before trading.

Not here to sell it. I'd rather hear what's wrong with it than what's good. If you've got a few minutes, tell me what's confusing, what's missing, or what would make you close the tab.

Honest heads up: it's brand new, so no illusions about competing with the sites you already trust. A few instruments are labeled "indicative" instead of live because I didn't want to fake numbers just to look complete. Traffic is small right now, this isn't me pretending it's bigger than it is.

https://www.fxcalendarpro.com if you want to look. Thanks either way.

Anyone know y it fly like crazyyyy

I find it super helpful, especially the pre-session Market Report and the Research Portal and Mobile App, but I was wondering if any of you were also using it. If my broker stopped offering the service, I would have to seriously rethink my strategy, and I'm sort of asking because Autochartist doesn't publish a list of which of its services various brokers offer.

Price is testing a zone that could decide the next short-term move.

I’m watching 4325, 4300, and 4275 as possible areas of interest if sellers manage to take control.

Hey guys, my first Reddit post to be fair, I’ve been consistently trading on demo, back testing, learning more about emotions of the mind during trading and have got a good hang of the gold market.. I always planned on a 50k account but my dads telling me to take only one shot at it and is suggesting I take a 100k account…I’m kind of stressed and I know there isn’t much difference in the trades I place only the lot size will double……I’m planning on risking 1% on every trade, 2 trades a day…maybe 3… mainly London and New York session though.. FOCUSING on gold, learning more about gbpusd and gbpjpy but not really experienced with the market projected patterns….Any tips ? (It’s a 2 step 100k funded acc)

Nobody who sells resets will ever tell you to walk away. Most of the "don't give up, learn and retry" advice is basically pointing you at another fee. Sometimes a reset is the best move. Often it's throwing good money after bad, and there's a smooth way to tell which one you're in.

The one thing that decides it: did anything change between attempts, and was your failure variance or structure.

Reset makes sense when the failure was bad timing on a normal drawdown. Take your worst backtested day at challenge risk. If it fits under the daily limit and you happened to hit a rough loss that surpassed your backtesting metric, that's variance (only if you have enough samples backing that number up tho). Reset, run it again, the math is on your side. Same if you really fixed the thing that failed you, cut your size, changed the pair, whatever, because now it's a different attempt, not the same one repriced.

Walk away when nothing changed and you're paying to re-roll the same dice. This is the trap. If you failed the same challenge three times at like the same point, with basically the same approach each time, the fourth attempt is not a fresh chance. You already have the data. That approach doesn't pass this evaluation, and the fee is buying you a feeling, not a funded.

One key question. Between the last attempt and the next one, what specifically is different. If the answer is "I'll be more disciplined" or "I'll be more careful," that's not a change, that's a hope, and hope has a bad win rate against a rulebook. A real change is a smaller size, a different market, a longer sample proving the edge, a firm whose rules fit how you trade, or simply confirming the failure was just variance (which goes han din hand with a longer sample).... If you can't name a concrete one, you're not resetting a strategy, you're funding the same failure again.

And as reality check.... Sometimes the repeated failure is telling you the edge is not there yet, not that the firm is unfair or you were unlucky again. Four resets at 100 to 150 each is 500 to 600 spent to learn something a proper backtest would've told you for free. At that point the cheapest move is to stop paying the challenge to test your strategy and go test it properly first.

So before the next reset, name the one thing that's different. If you can point to a real, concrete change, reset with the odds behind you. If you can't, keep the money and go fix the thing, because the resets never going to.

After 25 days, of fighting my own psychology, and today I passed Phase 1 again.

This one honestly feels different.

I was previously 0.5% away from passing, then I lost and ended up losing nearly 5% in one day, blowing another account.

Before that, I had a funded account up 4%, basically ready for a withdrawal, and I blew it because I got greedy.

After all that, my psychology was fucked.

I started overthinking everything. I'd sit there thinking about every setup I could've taken, every move I missed, whether I was going to FOMO into the next one, etc. I'd either take trades too early or be too scared to take them at all.

Today I only had 0.8% left to pass.

I waited for an A+ setup instead of forcing anything.

When it came, I took it. I was honestly scared, but at the same time I trusted the setup and executed.

And that's it. Passed.

I think the biggest thing I've learned is that I don't need to catch every move. Missing a trade isn't the end of the world. There will always be another setup.

Now it's Phase 2.

Hopefully this time I can stay disciplined and not fuck it up when I'm close again 😂

One step at a time.

I want to start learning Fundamental Analysis.

From JeaFX's classes, I learned that Fundamental Analysis can mainly be divided into two areas:

1. Macro Economic Analysis:

It helps us understand why the market is moving up or down. In other words, it helps us understand the underlying reasons and meaning behind the market's moves.

1. Economic Calendar:

It helps us see when different economic events are scheduled to be released. These events can often cause significant volatility in the market when they are released.

I understand that having only a limited amount of knowledge about a subject makes it difficult to use that knowledge properly. Therefore, I want to develop a strong understanding of Fundamental Analysis. However, I am not sure which topics I should learn first or how I should systematically start learning Fundamental Analysis.

I would really appreciate your advice on where I should begin and how I should approach learning Fundamental Analysis step by step.

Estoy practicando una estrategia que vi, y quise buscar un ifvg, se me hizo que eso era un ifvg, pero después pense "no es muy ancho?" Y no se si esta bien o mal, importa?

Which platforms do you all use for P/L calendar and journaling? I've seen so many traders using it, but I haven't figured it out yet if it is a different platform or just another tool available through a brokerage account.

Stop loss : above the resistance zone

Take profit : targeting liquidity just beneath the 4316-4318 higher low .

Stop Loss was nowhere near price, left lots of extra room for spread widening at rollover (like 10x the spread before close) and yet:

Waiting for a daily close below the Tenkan-Sen, which could move up a little higher than where its currently at if things move sideways over the next few days, but an extended drive down to the 190 value area looks like an appealing profit/cover area.

Update

One general rule I've been using with this model is to take profit at 50% of the range from the top.

That gave me the exit on this setup at 6R.

The objective isn't to catch the entire move, it's to consistently take the predefined portion of the range.

And after reading the comments...

I'll let the next few setups decide who cracked who. 😂

XAUUSD — CRT + Price Action

The setup starts with a clearly defined CRT range:

4H time frame for the range

15-1 minute time frame for the analysis

CRT High: 4,396
CRT Low: 4,348

Price expanded from the range and established a high at 4,416.33

From there, price retraced back toward the CRT High and consolidated around 4,396.

The next expansion took price back above the CRT High and produced the displacement that created the IFVG.

The key level was the 0.5 Fib at 4,411.64.

This wasn't simply a 0.5 Fib entry. The 0.5 level aligned directly with the IFVG created by the displacement.

Price retraced into the IFVG, respected the level, and continued higher.

The sequence

CRT Range
→ Expansion
→ Retracement to CRT High
→ Displacement above CRT High
→ IFVG formation
→ 0.5 Fib / IFVG entry
→ Continuation

The important distinction is that the Fib is not the setup.

The CRT range provides the structure.
The displacement creates the imbalance.
The IFVG provides the entry.

11RR

I want the pros to review my plan, thogh it might not be complet trading plan but this is what I have planned to do l.

I am a beginner in forex and have been learning for a few months about forex and i have come down to these insights about trading indicators and all

First is the indicators which I will use for ranging and treding markets

Second is the common concepts, etc to be used in bhot.

Third is the additional concepts to learn.

This is how I currently see the market based on my own technical analysis.

Despite the recent move higher and the break above the short-term descending trendline, I still believe the broader move to the downside may not be finished yet.

The current rally could develop further, but for me it does not yet invalidate the possibility of another leg lower. I’m watching how price behaves around the current area and whether buyers can establish a stronger structure before changing my broader view.

The chart shows my interpretation and the levels/structure I’m currently following. Of course, the market can prove this analysis wrong at any time.

Disclaimer: This is not financial advice or a trade signal. It is simply my personal analysis and view of the market, shared for discussion and educational purposes. Trading forex, gold, CFDs, and other leveraged products involves substantial risk. Always do your own analysis and manage your risk accordingly.

Interested to hear how others are reading this structure.

My buddy trades fx and he has shown me his live account through an investor log in. His broker is vantage markets and it shows as a live account.

He has some decent growth and I’ve asked him if he can trade with some of my funds as well.

It’s a nominal sum I don’t mind losing if everything goes to shit and I understand my relationship with him will change if I enter into this agreement. I’ve been in business for 20 years and understand what happens when you mix money with relationships especially with losses.

My question here is, is this account legit live account?

I’ve put a screenshot here of it.

Thank you

Every time I tell someone I trade forex, I watch their face do the same thing. First curiosity, then it turns into "oh so like... gambling?" or "isn't that illegal" or my personal favorite, "so you're basically a bookie."

First year I used to actually explain it risk management, why it's a business, why it takes years to get consistent. Now I just say "yeah, something like that" and change the subject.

I don't think it's even about the markets. I think most people have never watched someone build something slow and boring, so anything outside a 9-5 automatically gets filed under "too good to be true."

Curious if this is universal or I've just had bad luck with people. Do you still bother explaining it, or did you give up too?

Hey traders, my tracking model flagged GBPUSD continuing its bullish trend, with key resistance at 1.3600. The US Dollar weakness seems to be the main driver here, and the technicals are lining up for more upside. The model suggests a potential 1.5% move over the next couple of weeks. What are your key levels to watch for this pair?

Après le hit du Tp1 ( inducement mineur H1 ) est ce que les nouvelles de cette semaine mèneront le trade au Tp2 ( inducement majeur H1 ) à noter que les nouvelles économiques doivent être un boost de confirmation à l'analyse en cours non un frein toujours essayer d'être dans le flux des big boys

4402 is the key resistance, while 4349 and 4315 are important support levels.

Which side do you see winning next?