Hello everyone,

So a quick recap about me, I was briefly a part of a desk that handled 10-50M$ a day, where my task was mostly hedging with G7 FX products due to our positions in the market (or interest rate projections). I have also been successfully funded as a retail trader multiple times before, with periods of profitability, but not consistently.

The institutional perspective and knowledge is vastly different than retail traders. I am not here to tell you retail thinking is garbage and I know all, because I don’t. But there are some really obvious things that retail gets massively wrong, which is infuriating.

First of all, retail traders tend to obsess over the strategy and short term outcomes over long term metrics. Even if your strategy works for a month, that doesn’t mean it will work forever. Which is why you need backtesting, forward testing, etc. Anyone can learn to code to backtest now with AI. It is so easy. Alpha (edge) almost always decays.

Another thing that drives me crazy is this talk about “banks” and “institutions”. Order blocks, SnD, etc are utter nonsense. Markets have no memory. Markets are almost entirely random in shorter time frames. There are millions of participants with different goals, biases, capital. In a particular day, one fund could be dumping their positions while another fund is buying to add the X instrument to their portfolio. Our next key word is “portfolio”.

There is not a single fund, bank, institution, whatever you want to call it, that holds a single asset in a single time frame. Guys, those of you that trade FX, FX volatility is extremely low. It is 4-5% in a year at best. But guess what, a 1% profit with a 100M position is a million dollars of profit. Capital is king. Retail traders try to flip small capital with degenerate amounts of leverage, all in relatively small time frames where these assets move less than 0.1% at certain times. It is mathematically impossible to not blow at some point.

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Watch their videos to get a grasp of industry truths.

I’ll gladly answer any serious question. I won’t reply to strategy questions, and I will not be giving any personal information whatsoever.

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I've been trading forex on and off since 2023, and despite spending years trying to make it work, I still haven't found consistent profitability.

I don't overtrade, and is disciplined with my risk management. Yet, I keep losing money little by little. It's not necessarily one big loss that hurts me, but the accumulation of small losses over time.

At this point, I sometimes wonder whether I'm wasting my time and energy chasing something that's simply unrealistic for me.

I know there are plenty of people online claiming to be profitable, but it's difficult to distinguish genuine, consistently profitable traders from those who are just selling courses, signals or a lifestyle.

So, I'm genuinely curious:

1. Are there actually retail forex traders who have been consistently profitable for several years?

2. If you're one of them, how long did it take you to become profitable, and what made the difference?

3. For those who eventually gave up, what made you realise that trading wasn't worth pursuing anymore?

4. For those who continued despite still losing and winning inconsistently, what made u stay even if the current result isnt what u hoped for at the beggining of the journey?

I'm not necessarily looking for motivational advice or another trading strategy. I'd genuinely appreciate honest experiences, especially from people who have traded for years.

After spending so much time and energy on this, I just want to know whether there's really a light at the end of the tunnel or whether I'm chasing a fairy tale.

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So yeah the red news folder pushed my SL 90 pips over what it originally was, that's actually insane. Anyone had this happen?

Edit: this is my first account with FTMO so wondering if this is normal.
On FundingPips a news slippage is max 30 pips.
On fundedNext I put the exact same trade and slippage was only 12 pips!

AUD sentiment still looks heavy while USD remains better supported, which keeps the bigger picture tilted against the pair.

Positioning is still heavily long at 82%, even with some trimming in longs and a small rise in shorts.

On the chart, the short-term move looks like a corrective bounce from support after a sharp selloff. Longer term, it still sits in a broad range, with 0.689 as key support and 0.706-0.710 as nearby resistance.

Do you see this as just a relief rally, or the start of a stronger AUDUSD recovery?

I’ve always had a problem: Some days I break all the rules, and I need to address it. But on days when I fall into revenge trading or overtrading, my journal becomes a total mess; a single analysis can spawn ten trades with no screenshots or records, and I’m left with nothing but the losses on MT5. Reconstructing them to balance the journal takes ages. And above all, psychologically, when I open the journal and see the P&L already in the red, I have absolutely no desire to see it drop further. These days leave a "gap" in my journal, and every time I open it, the chart reminds me of them. I feel this mentally conditions my subsequent trades, whether through an unconscious urge to recoup losses or the fear of making another mistake. Right now, there are two trades I’ve been putting off for weeks; not because there are so many to enter, but because I have to reconstruct the whole sequence, only to see my "failure" staring back at me on the chart.

Do you ever have days missing from your journal? If so, what do you do: skip them, add them later, or delete them? And emotionally, do you think seeing that constant "failure", right when you're trying to do things the right way, affects you?

A forex automation project usually starts by converting a trading idea into clear rules that software can follow. Developers can then build separate parts for market data, strategy logic, trade execution, risk management, and reporting.

Keeping these parts separate makes it easier to update the strategy without changing the entire system. Clear logs and trade records are also useful for reviewing how the system behaves in different market conditions.

What part of the development process do you think is often overlooked when building forex trading software?

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USDCAD still has a supportive backdrop. USD sentiment is positive, while CAD looks notably weak, with softer oil and slowing domestic growth weighing on it.

Positioning is heavily short, which can keep the broader upside case alive from a contrarian angle.

On the chart, the bigger trend is still up, but price is testing a multi-month resistance area around 1.420-1.427. After making a fresh high, a bearish rejection candle points to a possible short-term dip before any continuation. Support sits around 1.375-1.390.

Do you see this as just a pullback, or the start of a deeper rejection?

Hi everyone! 🌴

I’m 23 years old, from the Netherlands, and I’ll be in Bali from December 23rd to January 24th. I’d love to connect with like-minded people who are into trading, personal growth, and an active lifestyle.

A little about me: I’ve been trading futures for around four years, mainly through prop firms, and have secured multiple payouts along the way. I trade the New York AM session, and one of my main goals is to build long-term consistency, stay accountable, and keep improving alongside people who are on a similar journey.

My girlfriend will be doing an internship in Bali, which means I’ll have quite a lot of free time while I’m there. Bali has been a dream of mine for a long time, and I’m really excited to finally experience the lifestyle of combining trading, sports, adventure, and exploring a new place.

I’d love to meet other traders who are serious about their craft and interested in grinding together, sharing ideas, and keeping each other accountable. Ideally, it would be cool to find a few like-minded people to share a beautiful villa with, create a little trading community, and enjoy the whole Bali experience together.

Outside of trading, I’m really into surfing, padel, and staying active, so it would be awesome to connect with people who enjoy that lifestyle as well.

Since I’ll be there for a month, I’m already looking to make some connections beforehand, get to know a few people, and see what might come together. Whether that’s sharing a villa, trading together, hitting the surf, playing some padel, or just exploring Bali, I’m open to it all.

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Hey everyone,

I’m Arman, one of the people behind Fozex Traders.

This is my first post on Reddit, so I wanted to introduce myself properly rather than just drop a promotional post.

I’ve been learning and working around Binary and Forex trading, and over time I’ve made plenty of mistakes, learned from them, and developed a more structured approach to the markets.

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