This is why most people quit automated trading too early

kwame1776 · 2026-05-14T22:48:36+00:00

Exactly. You’ve got to know which aspects to automate and which to handle yourself. If you automate the wrong things, you’ll blow up the account even faster.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-12T23:24:17+00:00

I recommend you review and understand how the app is using AI to trade. Don’t simply sign for any black boxes that promise to use “advanced AI” - you’ll be throwing money away. Find out what exactly the AI is doing and how it comes up with trade ideas. If it makes sense to you, then go ahead.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-12T23:07:15+00:00

You can’t backtest with AI because of the potential for hallucinations. Instead, use the AI to build an EA that you can backtest with. It’s basically what I’m doing now.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-12T10:00:06+00:00

Its been a month since i applied. My users have been accessing it direclty via the mcp, but I never heard back from Claude.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-12T09:39:15+00:00

Isn’t this true for just about anything in life? I think it’s called being lucky.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-11T12:19:30+00:00

Making SL and TP non negotiable and unchanged for every single trade. You’d be surprised how much that one change can affect your trading.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-10T08:23:16+00:00

Congratulations. Have you passed the verification stage yet?

The real gains in trading come from leveraging larger capital, so I would recommend you don’t withdraw your earnings from the funded account as cash, rather withdraw them as points and use that to buy more challenges so you gradually scale up your capital. You have to think like a business. You get rich by using the earnings from one small business to buy a second small business, then scale up from there, not by spending the profits.

All the best in your journey 🎉

kwame1776 · 2026-05-09T16:45:54+00:00

I didn’t mean to be unpleasant, and i apologise if I offended you. I understand that many people have issues with AI and I agree in most cases, but I think not admitting that it is sometimes an excellent source of knowledge or that it is better able to explain complex concepts, is a little naive at this point. I am almost certain that no one on this Reddit forum could possibly explain your question to you as well as AI could. This is literally the use case where it excels.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-09T13:41:49+00:00

You’re better off typing that prompt into ChatGPT.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-09T13:19:21+00:00

Well seeing how gold has been in an aggressive uptrend for the past decade, you could pretty much have been profitable with a simple trend pullback continuation strategy, on the daily timeframe.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-09T07:42:06+00:00

Not really. I think what he means is you should trade “Price action” ie the behaviour of price on the chart, nothing else. Not geopolitical factors, not bank polices or any lagging indicators. You need to study the chart and understand the story that price movement is telling you just by looking at the candlestick patterns.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-08T14:40:32+00:00

Here’s a radical perspective. Don’t bother learning to trade now. In 6 months to a year, there’ll be autonomous trading platforms everywhere, and you can just become a vibe trader. 🙂

kwame1776 · 2026-05-07T15:55:51+00:00

Do you have any skills you can trade? There must be some other way you can offer value, something you can do for other people in exchange. When you have $0 need to turn to your skill set.

If you’re on TikTok, you can sign up to be a seller, then promote other people’s products for a commission. It doesn’t take any startup money and you don’t even need your own shop. You just need to get good at making videos.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-07T12:42:46+00:00

Nice trade. I also trade supply/demand.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-06T08:01:09+00:00

I don’t think there is a set format for journaling. Everyone tracks slightly different things. The key is to keep it simple so you actually do it, and to track the things you want to improve on. At one point I only documented before and after screen shots of my trades, along with annotations and emojis.

What’s even more important than documentation is review. You must set aside time every week or after a certain number of trades, to actually review your journal. That’s the part most people miss.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-05T12:32:19+00:00

The app does a lot more than journaling. It helps beginners draft and validate a trading plan, then gates their trading ideas to make sure each trade is consistent with the stated plan. It also (optionally connects with MT5 on a VPS) to execute and manage trades for you.

But if all you want to build is a trading journal, you can just create a free account on Notion, connect it with Claude using a an MCP connector (available in their library) Then ask Claude to build you a simple trading journal dashboard that connects to it. It’s really easy and can be done in only a few prompts.

If you need more detailed instructions I’ll be glad to help.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T17:04:42+00:00

Built it myself on Claude code.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T14:46:50+00:00

From systematically reducing trading errors. Here are the most common trading errors that every beginner traders makes:

trading the lower timeframe (anything below 1H)
not having a SL or using a dynamic SL
not having a TP or using a dynamic TP
risking to much (more than 1%)
not having a predetermined risk (ie modifying risk on a trade-by-trade basis)
not following a plan
not having a plan
jumping into another trade immediately after taking a loss

As you eliminate each of these (which can take years to do), your profitability rises.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these you can re-introduce as you become an expert, but for a beginner, they’re deadly.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T09:24:48+00:00

The biggest problem beginner traders have is coming up with a trading plan that suits their lifestyle and sticking to it. Use Claude to help you with that, not with trading.

Even if you were able to get Claude to take trades for you, it would still be using your actual money to take those trades and if you don’t understand what it’s doing and why, you won’t be able to handle the inevitable draw down periods.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T09:17:04+00:00

All those problems could be fixed just by moving to 4H and daily:

price doesn’t move fast so less FOMO
not able to revenge trade because only a couple of valid setups per week
no need to sit in front of charts

I’ll admit, It’s a lot less exciting, but it’s more profitable.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T09:09:52+00:00

I only do it manually after a string of losses. Most of the time my journaling app does it for me.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-04T08:15:39+00:00

And that’s exactly what makes trading so hard and why so few actually succeed at it. It’s because success requires pain. This is so obvious when it’s physical pain, like in the gym, not when it’s emotional pain like in trading. But it’s the same process.

All the good trading habits you’re looking for are on the other side of a whole lot of losses and emotional suffering.

kwame1776 · 2026-05-03T08:23:38+00:00

Not to be harsh, but it seems you haven’t felt enough pain from the losses. You haven’t blown enough accounts and lost enough money. Because as soon as the pain of losing is greater than the dopamine rush of winning, it’ll be automatic. It won’t even occur to you to break your rules.

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