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FTMO Futures Explained: Plans, Rules and the Real Drawdown Math
A few weeks ago at Trading Engineering Lab we published Prop Firms Explained: The Real Math Behind a Funded Trading Account. We compared four...
Prop Firms Explained: The Real Math Behind a Funded Trading Account
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Does Price Always Return to the Daily Open? We Measured 13,894 Events to Find Out
The Daily Open gets mentioned constantly in intraday trading circles. But does price actually return to it after touching the Previous Day High or...
Paralysis by Analysis in Trading: Why Less Is More
At Trading Engineering Lab we get one question more often than any other from newer traders: "what indicator should I add next?" The honest...
Risk Management in Trading: The Math of Survival
Most traders treat risk management as the boring part — the safety rules you bolt on after you’ve found a strategy that works. That’s...
Automate a Trading Strategy (Part 5) — From OHLC to Real Tick Logic: Buckets, Statefulness, Debounce, and Realistic Execution
Lab Note (Part 5). Up to now we have been building a research workflow step-by-step: prototype fast, port to MT5, add context filters, and...
How to Backtest a Trading Strategy Properly — And Why FX Replay Is Better Than TradingView for Serious Practice
Backtesting is the process of testing a trading idea on historical market data before risking real capital. In practice, it means taking a repeatable...
Market Dynamics Explained: Why Trading Isn’t “Two Lines on a Chart”
Most people enter trading with a simple mental model: draw a couple of lines, add an indicator, and “predict” the next move. That mindset...
Volume Footprint and Heatmap Charts — The Next Level of Order Flow Analysis
Continuation of the Order Flow Series. In the previous article (Click here if you haven't read it yet) we covered Depth of Market (DOM) and...
How to Use Depth of Market (DOM) and Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) in Trading — A Practical Guide
Depth of Market (DOM) and Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) are two powerful concepts in market microstructure analysis. They do not replace traditional price charts,...
Trading Journal: The Missing Tool That Separates Traders From Gamblers
There is a brutally simple truth that most traders don’t want to hear: a trader without a trading journal is basically a gambler.
Not because...
Automate a Trading Strategy (Part 4) — From “Weak Edge” to Research Discipline: Time Exits, EMA Confirmation, and Session Engineering
Lab Note (Part 4). This is the point in the series where things start to look “interesting”. And that’s exactly why this part is...
Automate a Trading Strategy (Part 3) — RSI, Session Filters, 5-Year Tests, and the First Step Toward Real Optimization
Lab Note (Part 3). In Part 1 we built a fast RSI prototype in TradingView to learn how to prototype and, more importantly, how...
Automate a Trading Strategy (Part 2) — Porting RSI to MT5 and Backtesting in OHLC (With Real Pros & Cons)
In Part 1 we built a fast prototype in TradingView (Pine Script + ChatGPT) to learn a very specific skill: not “finding a profitable...
Automate a Trading Strategy — Part 1: TradingView + Pine Script (RSI Case Study)
Lab Note (Part 1). You don’t need to be the world’s best programmer to start studying a strategy professionally. You do need a process:...
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