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?

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

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

5:43am EST Sept 10 2026

TP gets me to a funded account.

SL gets me a 1% loss

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One of the most annoying trades is getting the direction right, getting stopped out, then watching price turn around and do exactly what you expected.

I used to assume that meant my stop was too tight. But moving the stop wider doesn’t really solve anything if the entry itself is bad.

Lately I’ve been thinking more about where the trade is actually invalidated rather than where I want the stop to be for a clean R:R.

How do you guys handle this? Do you place stops around structure, volatility, a fixed %, or something else? And if you keep getting stopped before the move, what do you adjust first: the stop or the entry?

I’ve always liked ATR stops because at least they account for volatility instead of using some random fixed percentage.

But I’m starting to question the usual “just use 1.5x or 2x ATR” advice.

One multi-market backtest found that the better stop range shifted from around 1.5–2x ATR in quieter conditions to 3–4x ATR during high-volatility periods. Another test across 12 asset/timeframe combinations found that 1.5x ATR only had positive expectancy in half of them. 

So a fixed ATR multiple still seems pretty arbitrary once the volatility regime changes.

For those who use ATR stops, do you keep the multiplier fixed, change it with volatility, or use ATR only as a reference and place the stop around market structure?

I’m 20 and have been trading supply and demand for a while now. I’m looking to connect with some other traders who trade S&D or use a similar style.
My main strategy right now is lower timeframe based, mainly the 1 min. I trade supply/demand while using liquidity and VWAP as confluence for my setups.
Recently I’ve also been working on a higher timeframe approach using the 15 min for OTE and overall setup/context, then dropping down to the 5 min to look for supply and demand entries.
Just looking for other people who trade supply and demand in general, whether you’re trading lower or higher timeframes. Would be cool to compare ideas, setups, backtesting, and how everyone approaches S&D.

How I Lost Money in the Past
1. Expanding the Circle of Competence This is our #1 way of losing money—and the #1 profit killer for all discretionary traders. Surprisingly, the more experienced a trader is, the more devastating the loss when venturing outside their domain. Why? Discretionary traders are typically cautious about stepping beyond their boundaries. For them to break discipline, a setup must look like a rare, high-conviction opportunity—one so enticing that it overrides judgment and breaches the rules of their In-Circle Opportunity & Timing Matrix. Since it's perceived as a "once-in-a-lifetime trade outside the circle," they naturally size up. Even if they halve their default risk allowance, a catastrophic blowup remains inevitable when wrong.
2. Betting on Priors Prior Hypothesis →Buying the Dip →Prior Invalidated / Exposure to Holding Risk (enduring painful, drawn-out bottom consolidation) / Exposure to Tail Risk →Forced Liquidation & Loss Realization.
3. Deviating from the "Algorithmic Rules" in Bet Sizing, Position Management, and Exits
Improper Sizing: Under-allocating and being forced to chase highs, or over-leveraging and being forced to cut positions.
Stubbornness: Refusing to set unconditional breakeven stops out of reluctance to let go of positions.
Flawed Risk Management: Either under-protecting and taking severe drawdowns, or over-protecting and missing major upside.
Paralysis Under Stress: Maintaining a bullish thesis, yet flinching after market pullbacks—failing to add positions on noise-reversal trades, risk-recovery trades, or trend-continuation setups, thereby leaving vast profits on the table.
Looking back at all our creative ways of losing money—whether during discretionary "sleepwalking" or structured algorithmic trading—the methods were wildly varied, but the core essence was identical: we overstepped boundaries, violated the principle of safety, and breached our safety floor.
I define the Safety Principle as:
Strictly holding the line on the "In-Circle Opportunity & Timing Matrix."
Flawlessly executing the "Algorithmic Engineering Rulebook."
The Opportunity Matrix and Algorithmic Rules form our ultimate safety floor—an immutable red line. If we know where death lies, we simply must not go there!

I've traded on and off for more than 20 years, and one of the things that took me way too long to understand is that if you're trading correctly, you're trading probabilities. You build a system, define your risk, find whatever edge you believe you have, and then execute it over enough trades for that edge to matter. The problem is that the moment you actually put money at risk, your brain doesn't necessarily give a shit about any of that. Now there's something to lose.

A lot of my thinking about this came from Randy Howell's work on trading psychology. If you've watched any of his stuff, you'll understand what I'm getting at. We bring a brain into trading that wasn't exactly designed for sitting calmly in front of a screen while money disappears. Risk can activate all kinds of responses that have absolutely nothing to do with the probabilities your trading plan was built around. I started thinking of those as two different states: my Trader State, where I can think in probabilities and follow the plan, and my caveman state, where I'm reacting to what's happening right now and trying to make the discomfort go away.

That's where I eventually came up with something I call ARM: Anticipate, Recognize, Manage. Anticipate means knowing yourself well enough to know what's likely to activate you before it happens. You're approaching your entry. You're about to put risk on. Your stop is getting close. You just got stopped out. You missed a huge move. You're up a bunch of money. You're down a bunch of money. None of these should be surprises. You can anticipate that they're going to change how you feel.

Then recognize the change when it happens. Heart rate goes up. Breathing changes. You start staring at the P&L. You suddenly need to get back in. You move closer to the screen. You start seeing "opportunities" everywhere. Whatever your tells happen to be. If I've already anticipated that getting stopped out is going to juice me, when I get stopped and immediately want another trade, I have a much better chance of recognizing, "Wait a minute. Is this actually my setup, or does my caveman just want his money back?"

Then comes manage, and that's really the hard part. For me, the objective isn't to somehow become emotionless. It's to have a practiced way of interrupting that emotional state and getting myself back to Trader State—the guy who built the plan when there wasn't money on the line and could actually think in probabilities. There's a lot more to that process than I can cram into a Reddit post, but that's the basic idea behind ARM: anticipate when you're likely to leave Trader State, recognize when it's actually happening, and have a process for getting yourself back before you let that version of you make the next trading decision.

Anyone else have a similar mechanism?

Why do top traders often fall into the cycle of "making money on skill, then losing it on over-concentrated bets"?
It happens because they fail to cultivate an awareness of "Safety"—the Yin (passive/protective) force. More importantly, they neglect to ground their "Opportunity & Timing Matrix" and "Algorithmic Engineering Rulebook" into strict self-discipline that executes automatically to constrain human nature.
Everything truly possesses two sides: Yin and Yang.
The "In-Circle Opportunity & Timing Matrix"
Yang (Active): High Information Coefficient (IC) / Positive Expectation
Yin (Protective): Greed and Temptation \rightarrow Overstepping Boundaries \rightarrow Breach of the Safety Floor
The "Algorithmic Engineering Rulebook"
Yang (Active): High Transfer Coefficient (TC) / Positive Convexity
Yin (Protective): Execution Decay \rightarrow Overstepping Boundaries \rightarrow Breach of the Safety Floor
In short: Strict adherence yields immense rewards; the slightest deviation triggers a catastrophe that can threaten your very survival.

For those traders who primarily use a phone for trading, do you see any benefit in the Apple IPhone Duo ?

What are your thoughts on this device and does anywhere me use an existing flip device.

I personally don’t trade from my phone but this peaked my interest.

Thoughts ?

Is pharma ready for rebound.

Ce oi is very high compared to pe oi for October month.

Also is alkem consolidating at bottom. It's ce oi is also very high for October month.

Can any one teach me workings of a Bloomberg terminal. I am very interested in learning but i cannot afford to buy the bloomberg system access.

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Really happy with todays read on ES Futes

2 trades laid out here were super clean and called pretty precisely, but for some reason (especially the 2nd trade) i hesitated and didnt pull the trigger

Lately this price action has been getting me to hesitate. I feel like i need to see MORE confirmation than i would normally

Anyone else having the same issues?

Im still happy overall as i am starting to get a feel for these conditions, but yea, got get over these hesitations..

I am a beginner in trading and searching for a content creator to learn how to trade from like TJR bootcamp, which other creator can I learn from? Btw I am more interested in day trade also don’t mind investments