Traders talking shop.

Ran Aurelius through NFP week on a raw-spread account. The news filter paused it 30 minutes before the release and it skipped the spike completely. Closed the week +3.1% with a max drawdown of 1.4%. First EA I've kept running for more than six months.

A reminder about win rate: Sentinel wins only 44% of its trades and is still one of the top-scored EAs here. Judge an EA by profit factor and drawdown, not by how often it wins. A 90% win rate with 1:10 risk-reward is a time bomb.

Biggest lesson from three years of running EAs: don't switch systems during a drawdown. Every EA in the top 10 has had a losing quarter. Decide your stop point before you start, write it down, and stick to it.

Moved my EAs from a home PC to a VPS in London, 2 ms from my broker's server. Slippage on Lumen dropped from 1.4 points to 0.3. If you scalp indices, a VPS isn't optional.

Jade Reversion v3.2 is live: the basket stop now adapts to ATR, and a new swap filter skips trades when overnight costs exceed the expected edge. Existing licences update automatically.

We studied 18 months of XAUUSD ticks: 63% of each day's range is set in the first two hours of London and New York. That's why Aurelius only trades those windows and sits out the Asian session.

Compared gold spreads at the London open on three brokers this week: Aurum 11 points, Northgate 16, Kestrel 24. For scalpers that difference is the whole edge. Check Broker Reviews before you open an account.

New here. Is it better to start with one EA on a bigger account, or split a small account across two EAs on different symbols? Thinking Jade Reversion + Golden Mekong.

Passed phase 1 of my prop challenge with Vanguard Swing: +8.6% in 19 days, never closer than 2.4% to the daily loss limit. Phase 2 starts Monday. Any tips for getting through the BoE decision on Thursday?

ISM Manufacturing tomorrow at 22:00 Cambodia time. If you run gold EAs without a news filter, consider pausing them for that hour.