Journal
Rules, risk structure and what you can actually verify before you trade a system. No signals, no screenshots, no promised returns.
Most gold traders have indicators. Very few have a strategy — a defined chain from direction to exit that runs the same way on every chart, every week.
On a 1-minute NQ chart there is no time to think. A scalping strategy that survives is one where the thinking was done in advance and written into rules.
Evaluations are not failed by bad entries. They are failed on one bad afternoon. A passing strategy is the one where risk limits are enforced by the system, not by willpower.
There is no best indicator. There are indicators that answer a specific question well, and traders who never decided which question they were asking.
The TradingView Strategy Tester will happily show you a beautiful equity curve that means nothing. Here is how to run a backtest whose results you can actually trust.
The buy/sell arrow is the most purchased and most regretted category of TradingView tool. The difference between a useful signal and a decoration is entirely in the logic you cannot see.
A locked script asks you to trust a description. Source code lets you check it. On a trading tool, that distinction is not academic.
Gold rewards patience and punishes improvisation. The difference between the two is usually whether the trader has a defined sequence or a collection of opinions.
Most funded-account attempts do not end because the setups were bad. They end because nothing in the process stopped the trader after the third loss of the day.
