The stuff everyone pretends to understand.
If it doesn't scream at you in seven seconds, there is no trade.
An indicator is not a separate source of information. It's the same price data, displayed differently.
You can trade a YouTube moving average crossover and not blow your account. Proof that strategy isn't the deciding factor.
The best floor traders on earth are thrilled with 10% a year. Reddit does that before lunch. One of those numbers is a lie.
$100k. Anything smaller and you're paying to be constrained.
No, higher leverage does not mean more risk. Stop saying that.
Designed to filter gamblers — or grind you down?
A stop loss is a promise about the worst case. Drawdown is what actually happened. Confusing the two is how accounts die quietly.
FTMO invented it and still pays anyway. Everyone else copied the excuse, not the payout.
Balance-based? Barely matters. Equity-based? Run.
One bad day and you're done
Your absolute safety net — or trap
The most misunderstood number in trading
It's not your money — it's your deposit
80% sounds great until you do the math
No more than X% exposed at any moment. Everything else is just how a firm chooses to enforce it.
The invisible cost on every trade
When the price you see isn't the price you get
Not every green day counts — read the fine print
Take a week off — lose your account
The number you must hit — and when it resets
The fine print that turns your evaluation into a permanent contract
Some firms allow it, most tolerate it, a few say yes while meaning no
Where the prices on your screen actually come from, and whether the firm is running its own infrastructure or reselling someone else's
A precise strategy turned into a vague clause that can breach you for scaling in
The one thing that actually keeps you alive
If these numbers matter to you — you're doing it wrong
No it's not. And saying it tells everyone more about you than the account.
Demo first. Real money next. And when you go real — it has to hurt.
If you're asking — you already know you don't have enough.
That nightly thing that scares new traders. It's just bookkeeping.
The same move. Three different numbers. Platform matters.
The number on your screen after closing a trade is probably not what you actually made.
Your brain finds the winners and skips the losers. That's not testing. That's storytelling.
Everyone hates swap. Some people make money from it.
Market, stop loss, take profit, buy stop. Not different types. Two types. Everything else is naming.
MT4 lets you go long and short at the same time. That's not hedging. That's paying twice to stand still.
The bus stop is not a trading floor. Stop pretending it is.
Myfxbook is a great tool. The moment you post the link to strangers, it's a leaderboard, and you stopped trading for a living.
Every broker does it. Every casino does it. Every insurer does it. The model was never the scam.
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