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• How I Build a TradingView Strategy That Matches My Broker’s Constraints — Learn how I adapt a TradingView strategy to match real broker constraints using FTMO US100.cash as an example, including lot step, minimum volume, session windows, execution, and position sizing.
• The 10 Rules of Genuine Backtesting in TradingView — Why most strategy backtests are wrong — and how to avoid the same mistakes.
• Why Most Retail Traders Fail — The myth of easy money in trading — and the real reasons most traders lose.
• Strategy Order Types Explained: Why Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Matter in Backtesting — How the order type you choose can silently make or break your backtest results.
• Risk Management & Position Sizing for Automated Strategies — Fixed-$ Risk, ATR Stops, R-Multiples, and Practical Guardrails in Pine Script v6.
• Why Backtesting Through Major Market Events Matters — A strategy tested only in friendly conditions hides its weaknesses. Learn why regime-diverse backtesting builds real conviction.
• The Best Risk Management Strategy to Pass Prop Firms — Why prop-firm challenges are a constraint game — and how to size risk around the rules that actually knock you out.
• How I Built a Bullish Engulfing Strategy in Pine Script Without Breaking the Backtest — A step-by-step walkthrough of turning a simple candlestick pattern into a structured, risk-controlled Pine Script strategy.
• Why Your Best Trading Strategy Might Fail a Prop Firm (And What to Do Instead) — Learn why a profitable strategy can still fail a prop firm challenge, and how to use constraint-based risk sizing to maximise your chances of getting funded.
• How to Read a Trading Backtest: What Win Rate, Profit Factor, and Number of Trades Actually Mean — Learn how to read a trading backtest properly. A beginner-friendly guide to win rate, profit factor, number of trades, expectancy, and drawdown.
• What Makes a Trading Edge? — Learn what a trading edge really is, what it is not, and how beginners can tell the difference between a trade idea, luck, and a repeatable statistical advantage.
• Timing Might Be the Reason Why You Aren't Passing a Prop Firm — Why the month you start your challenge — and the risk you choose — might matter more than your strategy.
• What's Inside a TradingView Strategy Tester Export — A walkthrough of every section of TradingView's Strategy Tester .xlsx export — what each tab contains, what each metric means, and what you can do with the data.
• Comparing the Same Strategy Across Two Brokers — I ran the same Pine Script strategy on the NASDAQ 100 through two different CFD brokers' price feeds — OANDA and Pepperstone — and got a $2,447 P&L gap. This guide breaks down where the gap came from, and what it means for backtest robustness.
• Previous-Day Price Levels and Your Trading Strategy: A Backtested Comparison — A 23-year backtested comparison of six previous-day price levels — yesterday's open, close, high, low, ORB high and ORB low — added as filters to the same baseline Nasdaq ORB strategy. The best filter improved Profit Factor nearly nine times more than the worst.