I know it's too early to start trading, but to gain the experience on demo it wasn't doing it for me mentally. Like I was least bothered with the outcome. So, I just took a small 10k Prop challenge from FundingPips. ( i cannot trade forex legally through a broker in India ). I am just trading Price action so far but getting a better hang of it. I took a couple of trades in GOLD and AUDUSD.

https://share.evernote.com/note/a8eeb003-394f-f19c-941b-c51364d85b4e it's my friend's Strategy he's been trading for a couple of years, it looks simple and has very few rules which is good for automation. So far the strategy has a 47% win with 1:2 RR. it should grow a 10k account by 36% in 4 months which is decent but i need something better.

Posted previous backtest and todays backtest screenshots. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy based on: OBV, Stochastic Oscillator, SMAs, Volume indicator Time frames: 1W, 1D, 4h I took about 1.75 hours backtesting. Although I did not enter that many positions, I figured out a few things about myself and my system. I realised that I do not like to be rigid at all times, I like to have SOME flexibility to just say "no I do not want to take this trade, I don't understand it" or "no, I do not want to take this trade because I do not understand my emotions/ internal state at the moment" or "I like this trade, my gut is giving me a good feeling, I have signals ready bar one, I am going to be more careful but be aggresive". Other things I noticed, the system does provide good signals, most of the time the trades do end up hitting profit. If it weren't for myself revenge trading on a backtest late last session, this strategy would be looking a lot hotter 🤣 on the screenshots. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Something I learned about market structure; ------- 1) Sometimes there are bigger moves waiting to happen when key areas on higher time frames are providing signals. I had a few trades which were potential 9:1 R/R trades that I only closed for 2:1 R/R (Cue the revenge trading emotions again because I missed out, this time I just decided not to trade those pairs up until the next divergence came around on the highest time frame I trade). ------- 2) Keeping an eye out for those would be beneficial in the future, although as of right now I am only running a very rudimentary backtest to get a feel of my system and myself. Especially considering if I test dynamic position sizing, those winner could be ALPHA (needs to be tested).