Back in the dot-com boom, conditions were wild: huge volatility, fast execution, option hedges made it possible to hit crazy returns like 50-80% per month,..even for average traders. Nowadays forex is different: volatility exists, but spreads, ...

What percentage profit per day IS possible?

When I’m up $200 in a day, I just close my laptop. That’s the easiest way to avoid greed and overtrading. I’ve been there before, telling myself “this is the last trade”... and then giving everything back.

How do you control your greed - practically

If gold is the weak link, does that mean we're in risk-on environment again? For the first time in like 2 years (and especially since October 2025?). I'm kind of feeling the risk-on turn on again, and wondering if I should long crypto and MSTR, and ...

Gold with No Drama

Based on current fundamentals, it’s of course bullish. We all know that any geopolitical tensions and gold are rising. Like you mentioned, it all depends whether support holds or broker. One thing to keep in mind is gossip that Poland wants to sell ...

Gold (XAUUSD)

Maybe active trading is not for you? Try investing. You are trading since 2015, and just imagine how much you would have earned if you simply started investing and compounding your balance… You don’t need some special strategy or sth like that, ...

Struggling to be profitable in trading

I will be honest with you, don’t lose too much time with EMA crossovers. For beginner it sound nice and clean, but in reality you don’t learn much from it. The system is extremely simple, like really simple… even a grandma can trade crossover So ...

which system

Surely, a demo should be your first step before real trading. I’m glad you understand the importance of it and made quite decent profits as I can see. However, as you said that was only from 2 weeks of trading. It’s not too much… I won’t advice you ...

Is demo a step before real trading?

I am losing money in trading exactly because of the same set of reasons as other traders have. Wrong psychological setups, embellished and excessive expectations, like pink-tinted glasses, you know, inability to learn on mistakes and many many other ...

Why do you lose money in trading?

I assume it's possible to be consistent and systematic in a long run on 100% but to reach such a level of self composure will cost a lot. You will literally need to take your time, maybe even health, to comply with the system you have developed. I ...

Is a 100% systematic approach possible?