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FTMO Challenge: Swing vs Standard (Normal) Account
FTMO Swing vs normal account in FTMO's own words: news, weekend and overnight rules, leverage, and which Challenge sells the Swing type.
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AI Backtesting: Which Tools Really Test Your Strategy
Which AI can backtest a trading strategy: the tools with a price engine run your rules, chat assistants invent results, and what none of them test.
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What Is a Renko Chart? Bricks, Sizing and Testing
What is a Renko chart: bricks of a fixed price size, how vendors disagree on sizing and inputs, and why one warns against backtesting on them.
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What Is a Point and Figure Chart?
What a point and figure chart is, what the X and O mean, how box size and reversal amount work, and why two P&F charts of the same market can disagree.
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What Is a Heikin Ashi Chart? Formula and Caveats
What is a Heikin Ashi chart: averaged candles, the formula published four ways, why the price on the candle never traded, and what ChartLabs has instead.
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Is the FTMO Challenge Free? The Free Trial, Explained
Is the FTMO Challenge free? No: FTMO prices the 2-Step from €89 and the 1-Step from €79. What the 14-day Free Trial is, and what the paid rules require.
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Leverage Trading Explained
Leverage trading explained: what the ratio means, how it differs from margin, the FCA and CFTC retail limits, and why the ratio is not your risk.
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Gamification in Trading Apps: The Mechanics and Why They Backfire
Streaks, leaderboards, badges and confetti are borrowed from mobile games and they work exactly as designed: they increase how often you act. A look at each mechanic, why activity rewards collide with a discipline that depends on restraint, and what to check before trusting a platform.
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Manual vs Automated Backtesting: Which One Should You Use?
Automated backtesting tells you whether a set of rules made money. Manual backtesting tells you whether you can trade them. A practical comparison of what each one tests, what it costs you in time and skill, and which to reach for first.
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Backtesting Builds Confidence: Here's How
Every trader hits a losing streak. The ones who survive it are the ones who have already seen that streak happen in testing. Here is how backtesting turns a normal drawdown from a crisis into something you recognize.
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Manual Backtesting Builds Better Traders
Stepping through historical charts by hand teaches what an automated backtest report cannot: pattern recognition, what a normal drawdown feels like, and the discipline to follow your own rules when it is uncomfortable.
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Backtesting Accuracy: How Slippage and Data Quality Matter
Why backtest results and live results drift apart, and what actually closes the gap: clean tick data, honest spread assumptions, and commission and slippage modelled directly on every trade you log.
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Backtesting vs Paper Trading: Which One and When
A practical comparison of the two ways to test a strategy without real money: what each one actually tests, when to reach for it, and why running the historical test first saves weeks of real-time work.
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