Recent content by borzy

account size should be in the table, but I would also add scaling rules and payout conditions. I tried cheap challenges before and the fee was not the main problem, the strict daily drawdown and hidden rules were the real test

Skill must come before profit. Many times I saw that planning is not enough, because the real test is following the plan after losses and adapting when market condition changes

For beginners I also think EURUSD is the best pair to start, because it is liquid and spreads are usually better. In my learning, focusing on one major pair helped more than jumping between many pairs every day

I have seen many robots look good on the website and fail in real market conditions. According to my experience with HFM, you should test it on demo first and watch drawdown, slippage, and behavior during news before trusting it on live

this point about all in cost is very true, raw spread alone can be misleading. I started tracking commission, slippage and execution speed per lot on HFM, and that changed how I judge a broker completely

I had the same lesson in my own trading with hfm, raw spread means nothing if commission is eating the edge every day. After I started tracking total cost per lot instead of only spread, broker quality became much easier to judge

Weeks like this punish traders who react to every headline too fast. I prefer to mark key levels first on my HFM charts, then wait for the data reaction, because the first move is often not the clean move

Coding becomes useful when it turns ideas into numbers. I started with simple scripts for backtesting and risk tracking, and it quickly showed me which setups looked good on chart but had no real edge

Gold usually gives cleaner reaction when fear is the main driver, while oil can turn messy very fast because headlines keep changing. I prefer to wait for confirmation on oil, but on gold I like buying only after the first emotional spike cools down

Trading stock CFDs on HFM helped me only after I stopped treating flexibility like a reason to trade more. Going long and short is useful, but the real difference came when I reduced size and waited only for clean momentum setups

Restraint comes before system. A beginner can have a good method and still lose money if he cannot protect capital and wait for clean setups

That combination can work really well when the triangle gives you structure and RSI plus MACD confirm momentum. Basically I use the same indicator setup on my mt5 hfm platform. I would still wait for a candle close outside the pattern, because many false breakouts look strong only at first glance

I agree that the real difference is not the market itself but the process behind each decision. The moment a trader cannot define entry, risk, and invalidation, it starts looking much closer to gambling

For beginners, I think the best start is to understand how one pair moves, how sessions affect volatility, and why risk per trade matters more than finding a magic entry. Too many new traders jump between indicators without learning market structure first. EURUSD is usually a better classroom...

I agree with this fully. Many traders blame the strategy, but often the real problem is using the same setup in a session with very different liquidity and volatility