How to Backtest a Forex Trading Strategy Step by Step
Backtesting shows whether your rules had an edge on past charts before you risk money. Follow the 7 steps, learn to log trades in R and read expectancy, profit factor and drawdown.
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False Breakout Strategy: How to Trade Fakeouts and Failed Breaks
A false breakout happens when price breaks a level, fails to hold, and returns. Learn how to spot a fakeout, tell it from a real breakout and trade the move back inside the range.
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Fibonacci Pullback Strategy: How to Trade the 61.8% Retracement
The Fibonacci pullback strategy buys a dip in an uptrend near the 50%-61.8% retracement. Learn how to draw the levels, what each one means and a worked trade with a stop and extension target.
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What Is Forex Trading? A Complete Beginner's Guide
Forex is the market where currencies are exchanged. Learn how to read a quote, who trades, how a simple buy trade makes or loses money, and what risks every beginner should know.
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EMA Pullback Strategy: How to Trade Pullbacks in a Trend
The EMA pullback strategy uses the 20 and 50 EMA to trade with the trend. Learn how to confirm the trend, enter when a pullback ends, skip ranging markets and plan a trade with a stop and target.
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Stop Loss and Take Profit in Forex Trading
A stop loss limits the loss and a take profit locks in the gain. Learn the methods for placing both, how to use two targets and why stops that are too tight or too wide hurt.
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Position Sizing in Forex: How to Calculate Trade Size
Position sizing decides how much you lose when a stop is hit. Learn the four-step formula, see how lot size changes with risk percentage and why fixed risk beats a fixed lot.
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What Is Risk-to-Reward Ratio in Forex Trading?
The risk-to-reward ratio compares what you risk with what you aim to gain. Learn the formula, the break-even win rate for each ratio and a 1:2 trade example.
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Mitigation in Trading: What a Retest Can Tell You
Mitigation is when price returns to a zone that started a move. Learn how to spot it, the three things that can happen at the zone and how to plan a trade without assuming the zone must hold.
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Premium and Discount Zones in Trading Explained
Premium and discount zones split a price range in half to show whether price is relatively expensive or cheap. Learn how to mark them, use them with the trend and plan a trade with a stop and target.
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Triangle Patterns: Ascending, Descending and Symmetrical and How to Trade Them
Triangles show price squeezing between converging lines before a breakout. Learn the ascending, descending and symmetrical types and how to trade an ascending triangle with a stop and target.
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Doji Candle Explained: Types, Meaning and How to Trade It
A doji is a candle where the open and close are almost equal, which shows a balance between buyers and sellers. Learn the types, what each means and how to trade a doji safely with confirmation.
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