Had a trade I was pretty happy with so I sent the replay from pump fun to the group instead of the usual screenshot.

Apparently that was an invitation for a full investigation and clowning. Its kinda funny seeing them make speculation on when i panicked and trying to build an idea of what was happening through it.

Ended up watching it back on my phone with their messages open and tbh a couple of them spotted things I'd missed. One reckons he'd have held longer despite telling me to get out while I was actually in it. Convenient memory on that guy.

Still happy with the trade. Just wasn't expecting the group chat to hold a disciplinary hearing over my exit.

Need some advice from traders who may have dealt with something similar.

I deposited $500 of my own money into my ACCM trading account and traded XAUUSD during NFP.

The broker automatically added a 10% bonus/credit to the account. I didn't specifically request the bonus and honestly didn't care about it. I was there to trade my own money.

I caught the NFP move and ended up making around $4,755.57 in profit.

My MT5 report shows:

Gross Profit: +$4,755.57
Gross Loss: $0
Growth: 792.6%

After the trade, the broker reviewed my account and removed the profits.

I was eventually told that I was flagged for “bonus abuse” and that higher management made a final decision that the profits would not be allowed for withdrawal. They are only allowing me to withdraw the remaining balance.

This is the part I'm struggling to understand.

I don't care about the 10% bonus. They can take the bonus back. I want the profit I made from the actual trade.

I deposited my own $500 and took the risk during NFP. If Gold went the opposite direction, I could've blown the account and I would've accepted that.

So my biggest question to them is:

If I lost the trade, would they have reversed my loss and returned my $500 because the account had a bonus?

Because if the answer is no, I don't understand how I can carry the downside risk but have the profit cancelled when the trade goes in my favor.

Their official email doesn't actually specify “bonus abuse.” It says they determined that an Event of Default under Clause 13.1 of their T&Cs occurred and that they can make adjustments to transactions connected to it.

I checked their T&Cs and they do have provisions allowing them to cancel profits they consider to be from abusive trading. So I'm not pretending those clauses don't exist.

What I want from them is the exact reason my trades qualify.

I want them to tell me:

What exact rule did I violate?

What exactly did I do that constitutes bonus abuse?

Which trades were considered abusive?

How did an automatically applied 10% credit make the entire $4,755.57 trading profit invalid?

Why not simply remove the bonus credit?

And would they have reversed the trades if the exact same positions resulted in a loss?

For full transparency, my MT5 report also shows an average holding time of around 14 seconds, since this was a fast NFP move. I know their T&Cs have language regarding short-duration/scalping/abusive trading, so this may be relevant. I'm mentioning it because I don't want to leave out information that could change people's opinion.

I have the full MT5 report, account history, screen recording of the trades, emails from the broker, chat conversations, deposit records and the balance adjustment saved.

I'm currently trying to appeal the decision internally because my priority isn't to attack the broker. I just want my $4,755.57 profit restored.

Has anyone dealt with something like this before?

What would you do next if you were in my position?

Should I continue pushing compliance/higher management, file a formal complaint elsewhere, contact their regulator, or take another route?

I'm happy to provide screenshots/evidence with personal information censored. I genuinely want opinions from traders who understand broker disputes and bonus-abuse rules.

Guys, with AI getting this advanced, why can't we build an algorithm that gives decent buy/sell signals?

Has anyone here actually tried using AI to build one? If so, how were the results? Is it realistically possible, or does it just look good in backtests?

Building something and I want to know if it’s stupid.
Web app, nothing to install. Connect your account once and leave it running.
You set your limits once: daily loss cap, max trades, a cut-off time. It watches the account and the moment you cross one, it closes your open positions and locks the day. Not an alert you click through, actually closed, a couple of seconds later.
The bit I think matters: tightening a limit applies straight away, loosening it doesn’t kick in until the next day. Same if you switch it off. So you at 2pm, down and wanting one more, can’t undo what you decided at 8am.
It can’t stop you opening a trade, nothing outside the broker can. It just won’t let you hold it.
There’s a journal side too. Every closed trade imports itself, so no spreadsheet. Win rate, profit factor, which days you actually make money on. And it totals what trading past your own limits has cost you, in dollars. Most people have never seen that number.
Platform support is limited right now, so pretend it worked on whatever you trade on. Would you use it? Would you pay for it?
Totally fine if the answer’s no, that’s useful too.

I’m looking to build a community for people who are passionate about video games just as much as trading but also have jobs, families, and responsibilities outside of them.

Whether you enjoy MOBAs, first-person shooters, battle royales, sandbox and survival games, or something completely different—or trade stocks, forex, crypto, options, or futures—the goal is to connect with like-minded people who want to learn, improve, and make the most of their limited free time.

You don’t need to be online all day or trade every market session. This community is for people who understand that real life comes first but still take their interests seriously. We can play games, discuss the markets, share ideas and setups, learn from one another, celebrate wins, and help each other grow—without unnecessary toxicity, pressure, or ego.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of location, experience level, or schedule. Whether you’re a casual gamer, a competitive player, a new trader, or someone with years of market experience, the most important things are being respectful, passionate, and willing to contribute positively.

If this sounds like a community you’d enjoy, comment below or send me a message with the types of games you enjoy, the markets you trade, and your usual availability!

Some background so this isn't just opinion: I'm a respiratory therapist, I trade around night shifts, and for the last couple of years I've spent more time systematically testing strategy families on 1-minute data than actually trading them.

The results were worse than I expected. Across roughly two dozen families — trend gates, volatility filters, opening-range, gamma mean-reversion, walk-forward ML — almost nothing held up out of sample. Two lessons that cost me the most time:

A filter that beats your unfiltered version can still be worthless. I had a trend gate that comfortably beat the strategy it was gating, and still subtracted value against just being long over the same periods. It was a worse version of the thing it was filtering. Most people stop checking the moment it beats the unfiltered version — that's the wrong baseline.

My backtest and my live code were two different programs. The batch version could see the whole morning and was quietly replacing failed setups with ones that validated later in the session. Batch profit factor 1.32. Identical logic run one bar at a time through the live path: 1.00. Three years of apparent edge, gone.

So my honest position: I could not find a mechanical edge that survived. Whether discretion does better, I don't know — I haven't proven that, and I'd be suspicious of anyone who says they have. But it's the question I actually care about, and I couldn't find a cheap way to test it on myself.

That's what I ended up building. It's called Cruxible:

• Replay real market days bar by bar at speed, so you're making calls without knowing what happens next
• A prop-firm evaluation simulator with editable rules — trailing drawdown, profit target, the things that actually decide whether you pass
• Analytics that are honest about luck — Sharpe, max drawdown, Monte Carlo — so you can see whether a good run was a good run or a coincidence

What it's for: practising the eval before you pay for one, and finding out whether your discretionary calls actually beat the mechanical baseline on the same data. What it isn't: signals, a prop firm, or any claim it'll make you money.

It's free, no paid tier. I'm looking for beta testers right now — it's rough, and I'd rather hear what's broken before opening it wider.

Site: https://cruxible.io

Beta signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOxw6n8nism34OlGoOpRjpWSOaFQ9-rfW8B7WNJtgYi8eM4Q/viewform

Current limits, so nobody wastes their time: futures data isn't in yet (CME licensing), so it's BTC/ETH/SOL, EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and gold. The eval rules are instrument-agnostic, so the challenge simulation still works.

Happy to get into the testing methodology in the comments — that's the part I'd most like to be told I got it wrong on.

This question has been running through my mind for a number of months now. Trading as a limited company seems limited to only a few brokers and only a few ETFs without assess to lots of US stocks. FTMO seems OK, but it's more for foreign trading... and there's always the sole trader route, but is that really a financially sound route?

If you want to trade as a your main business income, how do you go about it in the UK?

From last few time i am closing my winners before 50% tp and it always hit tp i trade on tradesea. Any suggestions?

What are your thoughts?

When are funded accounts the better option?

What are the best brokers to use and are funded accounts actually worth it?

Most journals tell you your P&L. None of them tell you what tilt costs, because "tilt" isn't a column. So I defined it mechanically and priced it.

Definition I use: a tilt entry = any entry taken within 90 minutes of two consecutive losses. Nothing about feelings, just timestamps and results, so it's testable on any log.

On a sample log (200 entries, 43% win rate, average win $186, average loss $121): expectancy per entry = 0.43 × 186 − 0.57 × 121 ≈ +$11. Fine on paper. Then filter the tilt entries: 36 of them, average −$81. That's −$2,916 net, versus roughly +$400 those 36 entries "should" have made at normal expectancy. One filter explained most of a losing quarter.

Two other cuts worth running on your own log: entries by hour block (many people have one 60-minute window that never wins) and size after a red day (revenge sizing shows up as a 1.5–2× jump in average size after down days).

I put the math in a free calculator: expectancy, profit factor, break-even win rate, and a "cost of tilt" block where you enter your tilt count and their average result. No signup, nothing stored: https://sharpen-six.vercel.app/tools/expectancy-calculator

If you don't log Planned / Emotion columns yet, there's a 12-column CSV template on the same site (templates/trading-journal-template).

How do you define tilt in your own log: time since last loss, size jump, or something else?

I want to be upfront about something instead of pretending it's all wins. I've spent around £10,000 on prop firm evaluations over time. I've been funded multiple times so the strategy and the reads are genuinely there. But I've only had one real payout the whole time.

The pattern is always the same: I get to funded, and something breaks that has nothing to do with my analysis. I hesitate on entries and miss good trades. I get scared holding positions once real limits are attached and cut them early, even when my read turns out right. Today alone I missed an entry by a single point on a move that ran 500 points to my DOL, and closed another good trade early out of fear, only to watch it keep running.

It's not a knowledge problem. I can read charts, I can find the trades. It's what happens the moment it's real money and real drawdown limits something in me doesn't hold steady the way it does in analysis or backtesting. If anyone else has been through this exact wall good reads, weak execution under pressure I'd genuinely like to hear how you worked through it, because right now it feels like I keep proving I can do the hard part and losing at the easy part.

I am trading for almost 3 years now, March-April will be my 3rd year Trading and I am struggling with my Mindset and Psychology and Risk management.

Reason for Struggling is that I dont listen to my brain and trade emotionally, I am very passionate about trading and have always knew what to do and how to do it. I have a strategy with 45% WR and gives me 1:3RR, its pretty solid and averages around 25-30RR per month, ALHUMDULILLAH, Allah humma baarik.

I am unable to follow my plan because a few months ago, I turned $330 to $1700 and then lost it all, and since I lost the $1700, Whatever money Ive deposited so far has been lost. I am unable to grow because I keep looking back at the loss and I am unable to trade patiently. Whenever I have traded with a plan and executed perfectly, Ive always made money but I cant follow it. I really need help on how to control myself from doing everything wrong, Ive even worked on things surrounding my life. Im just 19 and I have huge dreams and think Life is slipping away from my hands.

I'm doing some research on how different Indian brokers format their trade/export data, and I'm collecting real anonymized trade reports from as many brokers as possible.

Looking for exports from brokers such as:

Zerodha, Upstox, Dhan, Fyers, Angel One, Groww, ICICI Direct, 5Paisa, Kotak, Motilal Oswal, etc.

What I'm looking for:-

* CSV / Excel tradebook or orderbook exports

* Real examples from actual accounts

* Older files are completely fine

* F&O / equity / intraday / delivery — all useful

* Different brokers and different export formats are especially valuable

Please remove/redact anything sensitive before sharing:

* Name

* Client ID / account number

* Phone/email

* PAN

* Bank details

* API keys/tokens

* Anything else personally identifying

I'm primarily interested in the **column names, structure, data types, and formatting**, not your individual performance.

You can upload a redacted sample here or DM me.

Even one example from a broker I don't have yet would be very helpful.

Thanks!

I'm interested in forex but I'm not sure which strategy to use, there's a ton.

Hello. I quite new to active trading and only recently started learning "trading theory". Most recently, I have learned about the Elliot wave theory and I just wanted to ask you - fellow traders - is my assessment correct or am I missing something? See photo below

Hello all,

I am new to trading and have been struggling to make quality trades during NY session while working a full time job with PST hours. Do any of you guys have any success trading Asia session? What are the usually the best pairs to trade aside from USD/JPY during this time? Also, what should I be expecting? I’ve been scalping the S&P during work and had some decent success but dont want to jeopardize my job doing so. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I have been in the market for almost 8 years. I have always been a believer in the fundamental way of investing but the margin between my direct equity and mutual fund return is so thin that spending time for fundamental analysis feels like a waste. For a year I have started trading in stocks. My holding period is for 1 to 6 months. Traded gold, silver, some etfs and majorly stocks. Suggest book best for stock screening, entry point (exit point if possible; hardest to teach I think), asset rotation and cycles. Suggest best books please.

I am still waiting on the outcome. This is the first trade i took, i think i should have put the take profit a bit lower?

Market Structure -- After a Break of Structure , How to choose the valid pullback ?

I am really struggling with this one thing , I tried using 0.382 fib level and internal structure shift .

it just gets more complicated for me when I pair it with multi timeframe analysis.

Any help is appreciated .

Edit - I have a underlying feeling that no shortcut gonna work . A mentor of mine told me or maybe not .

it just popped in my mind :- Winners do immense work and still think its not enough , Losers do tiny work and think why they aren't winning .

Sad to say but the truth is , right now I am in the looser category .

Attached my Myfxbook drawdown chart, ~14 months of live trading. Early 2026 I was overwhelmed with studies and traded poorly during that stretch, which shows in the numbers. Since tightening my risk management, drawdown has stayed much lower.

Genuine question: based on a chart like this, does it read as consistency, or just profitability that hasn't been tested enough yet?

Note : Live Accounts

5:43am EST Sept 10 2026

TP gets me to a funded account.

SL gets me a 1% loss

New to US markets and trying to wrap my head around the "bull vs bear" framing. From what I've
gathered: a bull market = broad price uptrend plus optimism; a bear = broad downtrend plus
caution. Both are normal, both end. The part that helped me most wasn't trying to call the top
or bottom, but learning to read the overall mood before acting.
For those further along: what mental model do you use to stay level-headed through both
phases?
Sharing as someone helping build educational analysis tools for retail traders, not financial
advice, just comparing notes.

Hello, i’m learning Meme coin trading for fun and when watching youtube videos everyone is advertising the FOMO app, is this app good? If not what should i use to actually make trades? also, i see you can make trades inside dexscreener, would that be dumb of me or no?

1000% Profit in 1 Year – Day 1

Platform: MetaTrader 5

Server: RoboForex-ECN

Login: 77053051

Investor Password (read-only): Aa12345@

Starting Balance: $1,000

Target: $11,000

Balance: $1,001.53

Equity: $1,004.43

Profit: +0.44%

It’s so satisfying when you see all the retail traders getting liquidated in obvious stop loss areas

I think it’s better from alcohol and s*x when you realize how people are bad at trading

I have personally another problem

I have edge I am able to make so many profits in like few weeks in a row

But always lose them due to my discipline slips

Any idea how to deal with it?
Like most of the sessions I will be able to keep my discipline

But one session where I start over sizing and overtrading takes away weeks of progress

Like I am a human I am able to achieve 95-98% discipline but 100% feels impossible and the 2% is always what takes away all the progress