Best Hours to Trade Forex: Sessions and Killzones
There is no universal best hour to trade forex — there is a best hour per instrument. Here is how to connect sessions, overlaps and killzones to your pair, starting with GBPUSD.
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Reliable Backtesting: The 5 Biases That Make Your Results Wrong
Repainting, survivorship, optimistic fill order, forgotten spread, sample too short: five biases are enough to turn a mediocre method into a seductive curve. Here's how to spot them.
Risk-Reward Ratio: Thinking in R Instead of Dollars
The risk-reward ratio is expressed in R, not in dollars. Here's how that single unit transforms your trading journal, the way you compare two methods, and the decision to exit at TP1.
Trading Gold XAUUSD: 5 Traps Beginners Underestimate
Contract size, hourly volatility, the dollar, session spreads and weekend gaps: five quirks of gold that blow up beginner accounts, and how to neutralise them.
Supertrend on Heikin-Ashi: What This Pairing Actually Detects
Supertrend on Heikin-Ashi candles smooths out the noise and delays false turns, but it predicts nothing. Here is what it detects, where its blind spots are, and why the candle close changes everything.
Position Size Calculation: The 3-Step Method (EURUSD, Gold)
Three inputs are enough to size a trade: your risk in percent, the distance to your stop, and the point value. Two worked examples, on EURUSD and on gold.
Structural stop loss on gold: stop getting hunted
An ATR stop sits at a mathematical distance without ever looking at the chart. Here is how to place a structural stop loss beyond the last swing, with an ATR buffer, on XAUUSD.
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