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Forexizer joins the NVIDIA Inception Program
Forexizer is now a member of NVIDIA Inception, a program that supports startups building with AI.
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Notes from the desk.
Guides to get more out of the app, plus the occasional read on currencies and trading.
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Trailing vs Static Drawdown: Why Your Floor Moves When You Win
Two challenges can both say "10% max drawdown" and give you very different amounts of room. The difference is whether the floor stays put or follows you up.
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The Prop Firm Consistency Rule: Why One Big Day Can Block Your Payout
You hit the profit target, then find out one day made too much of it. Here's how consistency rules are calculated, and how to trade so a good day doesn't count against you.
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Position Sizing With a EUR, GBP or Non-USD Account
Most lot size examples assume a dollar account. If yours is in euros, pounds or anything else, there's one extra conversion, and skipping it puts every trade off by the exchange rate.
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What Is a Pip Worth? Pip Value for Every Kind of Pair
A pip is $10 per lot on EUR/USD and something else almost everywhere else. Here's how pip value is calculated, and why assuming $10 quietly breaks your sizing.
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How Many Losses in a Row Can You Take? Risk per Trade and Losing Streaks
Eight losers in a row isn't bad luck, it's what a normal strategy produces over a few hundred trades. The question is whether your risk per trade survives it.
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Leverage Is Not Risk: What 1:30 vs 1:500 Actually Changes
Higher leverage doesn't make a trade riskier and lower leverage doesn't make it safer. Your stop and your lot size decide what you lose. Leverage only decides what you're allowed to open.
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GER40, UK100 and JP225 Lot Size: Sizing Indices Not Priced in Dollars
The DAX moves in euros, the FTSE in pounds, the Nikkei in yen. If your account is in dollars, there's a conversion between the stop and the lot size. Worked examples for all three.
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Crypto Lot Size: How to Size Bitcoin and Ethereum CFD Trades
Bitcoin moves thousands of dollars a day and brokers can't agree on what a lot is. Here's how to size BTC/USD and ETH/USD trades from your entry and stop.
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Pips vs Points: The Difference That Makes Your Stop 10× Too Big
A pip, a point and a tick are not the same thing. Mixing them up is the most common reason a position size comes out ten times wrong.
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How to Calculate Lot Size for US30, NAS100 and Other Indices
Index CFDs have no standard lot. One broker's 1 lot of US30 is $1 a point, another's is $10. Here's how to size index trades without guessing.
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How to Calculate Lot Size in Forex (With Examples)
The lot size formula every forex trader should know, how pip value changes with the pair and your account currency, and worked examples for EUR/USD and USD/JPY.
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Gold Lot Size: How to Size XAU/USD Trades Correctly
Gold moves in dollars, not pips, and brokers disagree on what a pip even is. Here's how to calculate XAU/USD lot size from your entry and stop price.
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Lot Size for Oil, Silver and Other Commodities: A Practical Guide
Commodity contracts change from broker to broker, so a lot size copied from someone else can be ten times your risk. Here's how to size oil, natural gas, silver and more from your own broker's spec.
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Forexizer joins the Google for Startups Cloud Program
Google Cloud credits will help us test practical AI features as Forexizer Command Center moves toward early access.
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What Is Daily Drawdown? Daily vs Max Drawdown for Funded Traders
Daily drawdown is how far a funded account may fall in one day before the firm stops you. Here's how it differs from max drawdown, what it actually measures, and how traders trip it without meaning to.
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Forexizer Command Center: coming soon
Something new is coming to Forexizer. Here's a first look, and the waitlist is now open.
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Why Forexizer Doesn't Ask You to Sign Up
No account, no email, no password. Here's why Forexizer works that way, and what it means for your data.
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How to Calculate Position Size for a Prop Firm Challenge (Without Breaking Drawdown Rules)
Most prop firm challenges aren't failed on profit target. They're failed on drawdown, usually because of one oversized position. Here's how to size trades so that never happens.
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How to Manage Multiple Trading Accounts in Forexizer
If you trade with accounts in different currencies, position sizing and risk numbers stop making sense unless something is converting them for you. Here's how Forexizer handles it.
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