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Agree on DYOR first 👌

HFM’s spreads on EURUSD/GBPUSD are decent for beginners, yeah. One thing I’d add: check swap rates if you hold overnight. Some “low spread” brokers make it back on swaps. Demo is 100% the move before funding is not just for strategy, but to test execution/slippage during news too.

100% agree. Leverage is a tool, not free money.

I keep mine at 1:100 but my actual risk per trade is 1%. The leverage just lets me take that 1% position without needing 100k in the account.

Problem is when people confuse high leverage with permission to size up. 1:500 with 10% risk is a blown account speedrun.

Fair point, regulation isn’t everything and track record matters.

Never heard of hw.site before though. Are they regulated anywhere, and what’s the withdrawal process like? Always collecting data points on new brokers.

This broker is already been in the market for more than a decade which builds credibility however those looking for broker recommendations can also go through doing some of their own research before finalizing the right choice.

On 12/19/2025 at 12:06 AM, hhduy said:

I think every broker would have slippage when trading during news. I think some brokers like XM, HFM and ICMarkets are good choice for news trading.

When going to make a limit order we need to factor in all the trading costs, spreads and possible slippage in order to enter any position which leads into profits. Slippage might sometime affects and is occured during news release events so we have to consider them rather than blaming the brokers. Some of the brokers like HFM, octa, xm, lmfx etc allow news trading too. 

On 6/21/2022 at 11:27 AM, samesheet said:

Hotforex, Tickmill, Oanda.. have you tried any of them?

I see there were previously some news related to a prop firm acquired oanda so i think we have some other brokers like hfm, octa, xm, lmfx etc to be added while short listing the right trading partner. We can also download their demo to check which option suits us best.

That's why doing some of your own research is recommended to find out the broker's processes and ease of use in my opinion.

Just trying to keep CPU under 70%. Share your instance/RAM ratios if using VPS services for MT4 or MT5.

Yes, preserving the weekly profits can be a good idea so the traders can protect their wins rather than returning to these markets on fridays!

Having a trade journal for logging our trades and reviewing them for periodic evaluation and improvement is the best in building memory muscles and setups.

In my opinion, it also depends on what are the available options that can be opt in easily.

I really wonder that many of the new traders treat trading as casino and some of them also keeps winning for some time before blowing their accounts.

Learning always required discipline and patience or these traders always learn it in a hard way losing money and blowing accounts etc so we can use a demo account for practice our learned skills without risking any real money. Demo accounts can be downloaded from any brokers like hfm, octa, xm, exness, lmfx etc without depositing any money with these.

Leverage is something to be kept lower in start since the new traders being unaware of the market conditions can blow up the accounts so better to adjust it accordingly.

I think sticking with the demo for a minimum of six months before jumping to the live trades or else we can burn our live funds which could be saved if choose to stay on a demo while learning.

Looks like both of the commodities looking for a deep correction and then may go up again since for now it looks like blood bath making panic among those who bought it at the top.

I think the crypto or alts are competing with the gold and other trading assets, let see how we transform a transition from fiat to digital assets in the near future. 

I think trading comes through practice and only watching without practice is just leading to nowhere in my opinion. 

I think if we make any lose we reduce the risk amounts as well, while if we win we should not anticipate any more in trading.

On 12/12/2025 at 4:42 PM, binaryowner said:

EMA is fine, but context is king - HTF bias + liquidity windows keeps it from turning into a chop machine

Agreed, that's why it is recommended for new traders to look at the higher time frames to analyse if they wish to trade rather than trading on smaller timeframes.

I think we need to start with small while learning and choose any reputed broker like hfm, octa, exness, lmfx etc as our trade partner. Learn the skills carefully and pratice on demo or either with those small funds and grow.

I have been crypto enthusiast as well holding some of the altbags lately and still waiting for the bull run which was supposed to be in the late 2025. I am quite confident that this will be in 2026 for sure so can you predict how far this token can grow!

Agreed since that school of pipsology have served for a long time in this trading industry however the brokers like hfm, xm, lmfx, etc also have demo learn & earn or demo to real trading contests which can be used to earn money while learning how to trade through demo accounts.

All of these pairs are major one which are more liquid than any of the other currency pairs which are not paired with the USD. They have average competitive spreads and more liquid while comparing to the exotic pairs.

Both bitcoin and gold was worth buying in the past and still we do not know how far it will go in the upcoming years.