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Maximum Adverse Excursion: Where Your Stop Should Actually Sit

Maximum adverse excursion reads how far your winning trades ran against you before working, so your stop comes from your own record instead of a round number.

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Pyrem R. September 7, 2026
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How to Backtest an MT4/MT5 EA Like A Pro

The retail algorithmic trading space is plagued by a frustrating paradox. A trader writes or buys an automated Expert Advisor …

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RelicusRoad Team Jul 22, 2026
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Heikin Ashi: The Trend Smoother

If standard candles give you anxiety, Heikin Ashi gives you peace. How to filter the noise and stay in the trend.

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Pyrem R. Jan 17, 2026
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The Best & Worst of Mobile Trading

Review the real advantages and limits of mobile trading, from execution and alerts to screen size, distraction, security, and risk …

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Pyrem R. Apr 24, 2025
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RSI Divergence: The Early Warning System

Learn how RSI divergence can flag weakening momentum, which market-structure confirmations matter, and where to place invalidation …

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Pyrem R. Jan 5, 2025
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ADX: The Truth Serum for Trends

Is the market trending or ranging? Stop guessing. The ADX (Average Directional Index) gives you a definitive number.

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Pyrem R. Jun 26, 2024
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VWAP: The Institutional Price Tag

Learn how VWAP frames fair value, trend bias, pullbacks, and intraday execution, plus the data limitations traders should …

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Pyrem R. Feb 14, 2024
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Core guides

Foundational lessons for reading price action, managing risk, and building a repeatable process.

  1. Position Sizing: The 2% Rule is Only the Beginning

    How much should you buy? Learn the math of survival using Fixed Fractional Sizing, ATR-based risk, and the RelicusRoad Position Calculator.

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  2. Support and Resistance Mastery: Zones, Breaks and Retests

    Master support and resistance zones with repeatable drawing rules, breakout and retest confirmation, invalidation, position sizing and common mistakes.

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  3. Trading the News: A Non-Gambler’s Guide to NFP

    Stop guessing the number. Learn how to trade the reaction to Non-Farm Payrolls with a specific 15-minute strategy.

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  4. Gold, Oil, and Milk: Trading the Commodity Currencies

    Why the Canadian Dollar smells like oil and the Kiwi Dollar smells like dairy. How to trade the proxies.

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  5. Heikin Ashi: The Trend Smoother

    If standard candles give you anxiety, Heikin Ashi gives you peace. How to filter the noise and stay in the trend.

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  6. The Ichimoku Cloud: The 5-Second Scan Strategy

    It looks like a mess of lines. It is actually the most complete trading system ever invented. How to read the 'Cloud Twist' in seconds.

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