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How to Build a Balanced EA Portfolio

Most traders understand EA portfolio balance through the lens of traditional risk management — controlling position sizes, diversifying currency pairs, or limiting exposure per trade.  But in automated trading, balance is about deliberately constructing a portfolio where different strategies complement each other, measuring their collective p...

October 15, 2025
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Beyond the Code: 8 Standards for Automated Trading

The rise of algorithmic trading has made it possible for traders of all levels to execute trades with precision and discipline 24/7.  However, while algorithms, such as Expert Advisors (EAs) used on MT4 or MT5, remove emotion from the execution, they cannot remove the human element from trading.  The psychological challenges may be differen...

October 9, 2025
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U.S. Government Shutdown 2025: What Traders Need to Know

The United States entered a government shutdown on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to agree on full-year appropriations or a short-term funding bill.  Although shutdowns have occurred before, the timing, speed, scale, and motives behind this one make it unique.  This is the first shutdown since the last Trump term in 2018–19, which...

October 3, 2025
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The Fake-out Reversal – Trading Setups

What Is a Fake-out Reversal? The “Fake-out Reversal” is a common price action setup that is based on two important price action principles: Markets often create the illusion of a breakout at key support or resistance levels. A significant number of these breakouts lack conviction, trapping breakout traders before reversing sharply back...

October 2, 2025
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Harnessing the Global Market Pulse in Your Trading

Forex, index and commodity CFD markets are technically open 24 hours a day, but in terms of market action, not all hours are the same.  We can see wide variations in liquidity, volatility, and opportunity depending on which global financial centres are active and the key assets being traded.  For intermediate traders, understanding and adop...

September 29, 2025
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10 Professional Trading Standards: The Foundation of Trading Planning and Behaviour

Before a trader defines their strategy or chooses their markets, they must decide how they plan to conduct themselves.  A trading strategy should be underpinned by a set of standards and behaviours that guide every decision and approach.  Establishing professional standards can provide a framework for consistency and personal accountability...

September 29, 2025
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The Break and Retest – Trading Setups

What Is the Break and Retest? The “Break and Retest” is a common price action setup based on two important principles: The tendency for prior resistance to become support, and prior support to become resistance. Several key-level breakout price moves will offer a challenge to the strength of a move by retesting the key level just breac...

September 24, 2025
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The Inside Bar Breakout – Trading Setups

The Inside Bar breakout is a price action setup that indicates a short-term consolidation within the broader context of an existing trend — and a potential confirmation that the trend may be continuing. It is a candle that forms entirely within the outer points of wicks that formed from the previous candle. This previous candle, often referred...

September 19, 2025
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Next Big Stock Splits: Top 5 Stocks Set to Split in 2025-2026

Last year was the year of the split. Tech titans like Nvidia, Broadcom, and MicroStrategy all executed 10-for-1 stock splits that sent retail investors (rightly or wrongly) into a buying frenzy.  But despite multiple major stocks climbing to record-high levels this year — Netflix $1,200, Meta $760, and AutoZone $4,200 — we have yet to see a...

September 17, 2025
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Bollinger Band Reversal – Trading Setups

What Is a Bollinger Band Reversal? The Bollinger Band reversal is a mean-reversion strategy that looks for the price to temporarily overextend beyond its typical range before snapping back inside. It consists of three lines: An upper band A lower band A 20-period simple moving average (SMA) in the middle. The Upper band and Lower ...

September 12, 2025
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The Outside Bar – Trading Setups

The outside bar is a powerful price action pattern that often signals a potential reversal.  Unlike single-wick setups such as a pinbar strategy, the outside bar forms when a candle’s high and low both exceed those of the prior candle, effectively “engulfing” it completely. This wide-ranging bar represents a change in buying or selling...

September 11, 2025
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The Fractal Breakout – Trading Setups

Rather than looking for a reversal, fractal breakouts use the last fractal high (in an uptrend) or last fractal low (in a downtrend) as confirmation of a trend after a retracement in price It is a continuation strategy designed to capture momentum once the price has confirmed direction. When price breaks beyond the most recent fractal, it signal...

September 8, 2025
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Pinbar Reversal – Trading Setups

The pinbar reversal is one of the most-used price action signals in trading.  It reflects a battle between buyers and sellers where one side attempts to push the market further in their favour, but is met with an observable and often strong rejection.  The resulting full pinbar candle leaves a long “wick” showing where price was rejecte...

August 28, 2025
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Understanding Change in Market Character (CIMC)

Market Character is the big sister of Market Structure. While Market Structure can show the framework of price highs and lows, Market Character reveals the behaviour of price moves in greater detail. Market character takes into account the speed of price movement, changing volatility, and the level of conviction behind the move. The combinati...

August 27, 2025
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Understanding the Break of Market Structure

Even during the strongest of market trends, prices do not move in straight lines for long. Nor do they move in random lines. Price structure has a tendency to be more like a wave, creating a visual rhythm on a chart.  You can think of market structure as the framework on which all price action sits. If you can read structure clearly, it help...

August 25, 2025
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