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Analysing gold (XAUUSD): sessions, volatility and position size
Gold does not read like a currency pair: when it actually moves, why it needs a wider stop, and how position size is worked out on XAUUSD.Updated onAnalysing Bitcoin (BTCUSD) on MT5: hours, leverage and position size
A market open non-stop but not active non-stop, leverage capped at 2:1 in Europe, and a contract size that quietly decides your position size.Updated onMT5 symbols: suffixes, duplicates and refused orders
Why the same asset is XAUUSD at one broker and XAUUSD.std at another, why two variants coexist, and which one will actually accept your orders.Updated onWorking out position size, instrument by instrument
The formula is one division, the difficulty is the point value. The calculation worked through on a pair, on gold, on an index and on Bitcoin.Updated onThe economic calendar: the hours to avoid, and why
What moves on a release, why the spread widens and the stop stops protecting, and the three ways to organise yourself around an announcement.Updated onMT5 return codes: why your order was refused
10016, 10019, 10014, 10017: what each MT5 error code means when an order is rejected, and what to change so that it goes through.Updated onUsing an analysis tool on a prop firm account
The rules that genuinely constrain a tool on a prop firm account: the daily loss limit, restrictions around news, and automated order placement.Updated onCan an AI assistant analyse a trading chart?
What a general-purpose model actually reads on a screenshot, what it cannot know, and why a plausible number is not a correct one.Updated onPremium, equilibrium and discount: where price sits
A range cut in half: above it price is expensive, below it is cheap. What that changes, and why everything depends on the range you picked.Updated onScalping, intraday or swing: choosing your timeframe
What each horizon really asks of you in screen time, stop width and account size, and why starting with scalping is a mistake.Updated onLimit, stop or market: choosing your order type
You do not choose the order type, where your price sits does, and one detail about the spread gets perfectly valid orders refused.Updated onMargin and leverage: what is actually tied up
What leverage ties up on your account, the European caps per asset class, and why leverage does not change your risk but what you are allowed to open.Updated onMarket sessions: when the market actually moves
Asia, London and New York in Paris time, the overlap window that concentrates the activity, and the hours when the spread costs you most.Updated onSpread, commission, swap: the real cost of a trade
The three costs you actually pay, how to compare a tight-spread account with a commission-free one, and why swap ruins slow positions.Updated onMT4 or MT5: the differences, and which to choose
Two separate platforms rather than two versions: accounts are not interchangeable, indicators are incompatible, and third-party tools only fit one of them.Updated onTelegram signal channel: writing followable signals
What a subscriber needs in order to actually execute your signal, the format that copies without error, and the one thing never to publish.Updated onFollowing a signal channel: why speed changes everything
Why your results never look like the channel’s: delay, copying mistakes and cherry-picking. What tooling fixes, and what it cannot.Updated onKeeping a trading journal: what to note, what to skip
Copying out what your broker already records is why journals get abandoned. What actually needs noting is elsewhere, and fits in three fields.Updated onWhere to place your stop loss, and why not elsewhere
A stop is not chosen by amount: it goes where your idea becomes wrong. The two markers that work, and the places to avoid entirely.Updated onTrailing stop, break-even and partial close
Three very different actions, often confused. What each really costs, and why the MT5 trailing stop stops moving when your platform is closed.Updated onWhat is a CFD?
A contract with your broker, not an asset. What that changes about the price you see, contract size, overnight financing and the European framework.Updated onThe demo account: what it is actually good for
What a demo account teaches faithfully, what it does not reproduce, and the starting balance without which nothing you learn transfers to live.Updated onBOS and CHoCH: the difference, and how to stop confusing them
Both describe a break of structure, but not the same one. The rule that separates them in one sentence, and the trap of reading a CHoCH as a signal.Updated onLiquidity sweep: why price goes hunting for your stop
Your stops are liquidity, and a large order needs someone on the other side. Where it sits, and how to tell a sweep from a real break.Updated onMT5 server name and account number: where to find them
The MT5 server name looks nothing like the broker’s brand, and getting it wrong returns the same error as a wrong password. Where to find both.Updated onWhat is AlphaGPT?
What AlphaGPT does, what it does not do, what you get on screen, what you need to use it and where it is available. Without the sales pitch.Updated onHow to read an SMC analysis when you are starting out
What each line of a trade plan means: direction, order type, entry, stop, targets and size. And why several targets mean several orders.Updated onWhat an analysis tool can, and cannot, do on your MT5 account
The MetaTrader 5 permission model in plain terms: what each password allows, what neither of them ever allows, and how to revoke access.Updated onHow to compute your risk in copy trading
A signal gives levels, never a size. Why copying the quoted lot is the worst idea, the correct calculation, and the trap of multiple targets.Updated onHow to place orders from a signal without getting it wrong
The order type depends on the current price and not on the signal, the instrument has another name at your broker, and signals expire. Rejections explained.Updated onWhere to find your MT5 investor password
The MT5 investor password is never displayed anywhere. Where to find it, how to reset it on desktop and mobile, and the trap that breaks the connection.Updated onOrder block: what it is, and how to spot one
What an order block is in Smart Money Concepts, the three conditions that separate it from an ordinary candle, and the two ways of drawing it.Updated onFair value gap: what it is, and how to draw it
A fair value gap is read across three candles and measured without interpretation. The exact rule, and how it differs from an order block.Updated onHow much to risk per trade, and how to compute it
The convention is 1 % of capital per position. But size is derived from the distance to the stop, never the other way round. Worked example and traps.Updated onShould you give an analysis tool your MT5 password?
MetaTrader 5 gives you two passwords and only one can trade. Which to hand over, what each allows, and what to check before connecting an account.Updated onOrder block, FVG, liquidity: the Smart Money Concepts glossary
The Smart Money Concepts vocabulary one term at a time: structure, BOS, CHoCH, order block, fair value gap, liquidity, sweep, premium, discount.Updated on