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Setups, sessions, backtests and trade management. Explain the idea, not a signal to copy.

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Time-based stops: do you exit after X hours regardless?
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Maximum exposure: how many open positions at once?
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Correlation limits: how much same-direction risk do you allow?
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Drawdown rules: what triggers you to step back to demo?
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0172 d ago
Profit targets per day: do you stop when you're ahead?
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0162 d ago
Weekly loss limits versus daily: which do you use?
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Daily loss limits: what's your number, and how do you enforce it?
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0192 d ago
Volatility-based sizing: what's your formula?
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The Kelly criterion: does anyone actually use it?
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0172 d ago
Fixed fractional sizing: how do you calculate yours?
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0182 d ago
Swap in your strategy: profit centre or slow leak?
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Slippage in your backtests: how much do you assume?
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Does your strategy survive the costs?
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How do you evaluate a new setup idea?
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0162 d ago
One strategy or many: how many setups do you trade?
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When do you kill a strategy?
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How do you document a strategy so you can actually follow it?
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0182 d ago
Monte Carlo thinking: how do you stress-test a strategy?
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Overfitting: how do you know you've done it?
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Walk-forward testing: do you bother?
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Forward testing on demo: what's your protocol?
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Backtesting by hand: how many trades do you collect before trusting a setup?
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How do you pick between swing and day trading?
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Position trading: how do you hold for months?
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0192 d ago
Scalping: what's your honest reality check?
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Swing trading: what's your typical holding period?
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Trend trading: what's your trailing method?
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Mean reversion: what's your fade setup?
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Momentum trading: how do you actually measure momentum?
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0222 d ago
Volatility compression: what do you do with a squeeze?
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ADR-based strategies: trading the average daily range
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0212 d ago
Day-of-week effects: do you trade Mondays and Fridays differently?
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Time-of-day stats: do you know when your setup actually works?
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0182 d ago
Hedging with opposite positions: does it ever make sense?
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0202 d ago
DCA into losers: a strategy or a coping mechanism?
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Grid and martingale: honest experiences, good and bad
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0192 d ago
Basket trading: expressing one view across many pairs
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0162 d ago
Correlation strategies: trading the spread between two pairs
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Carry strategies: how do you build one properly?
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Gap strategies: do you trade the weekend gap?
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0172 d ago
Central bank decision day: what's your actual play?
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0182 d ago
Do you trade the first hour after a major release?
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0142 d ago
News trading: straddle, fade or wait?
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0142 d ago
The New York open and the London overlap: how do you trade it?
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London close strategies: what do you watch at the end of the day?
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0182 d ago
How do you treat the Asian session range?
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0172 d ago
Where do you put your stop for a breakout trade?
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Fixed risk-reward versus market-driven exits: which won for you?
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0172 d ago
ATR targets and trails: how do you use volatility in your plan?
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0152 d ago
Higher highs and lower lows: what's your precise trend definition?
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