If your trailing stop is consistently too slow and you're getting stopped at breakeven or SL before TP, it might not be the strategy; it could be execution lag. How are you running this? If it's an EA on your home PC, every tick has to travel to ...

Small-Wick Trading-Idea

Fake breaks on gold ORB are brutal, the spread widens right at NY open and you get filled 2-3 pips worse than your entry price. Two things that helped me: (1) wait for the first 5-min candle to close outside the range, not just wick through it, and ...

XAUUSD NY Open Range Breakout Scalping System

Solid framework. The conviction-based sizing is something a lot of traders overlook; they get stuck on the "always risk 1%" rule without thinking about whether the setup actually warrants it. The free capital concept is key too. Most blowups happen ...

How Professionals Really Think About Position Size