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Risk Reversal: The Options Strategy, the Volatility-Skew Signal, and Its Real Risks

  • Risk Reversal: The Options Strategy, the Volatility-Skew Signal, and Its Real Risks

    12 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    In finance, risk reversal means two related things. As an options strategy, it is selling an out-of-the-money put to finance buying an out-of-the-money call, producing a low-cost bullish position, or the reverse legs for a bearish one. As a market measure, it is the volatility skew reading, usually the 25-delta risk reversal, that compares the […]

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XHMaster Formula Indicator: What It Shows, How to Test It, and How to Trade With It

  • XHMaster Formula Indicator: What It Shows, How to Test It, and How to Trade With It

    10 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The XHMaster Formula indicator is a custom, arrow-based trend and momentum tool for MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, and TradingView. It combines several classic indicators, commonly listed as moving averages, MACD, RSI, Stochastic, and Parabolic SAR, into two simple visual cues: a colour-coded line or dots showing the current momentum regime, and green or red arrows […]

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How Currency Strength Is Determined: The Economic Factors Behind a Currency’s Value

  • How Currency Strength Is Determined: The Economic Factors Behind a Currency’s Value

    10 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    At its root, a currency’s value is set by supply and demand in the global foreign exchange market, the largest financial market in the world by the BIS’s own turnover statistics. What determines the value of a currency, then, is whatever moves that supply and demand: interest rates, inflation, economic growth, trade balances, central bank […]

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Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution (AMD): The ICT Power of 3, and How to Trade Its Phases

  • Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution (AMD): The ICT Power of 3, and How to Trade Its Phases

    9 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Accumulation, manipulation, distribution is a smart-money model describing how price moves through three phases: a quiet range where large positions are built, a false move that sweeps liquidity and traps traders on the wrong side, and then the sustained move in the intended direction. It is usually abbreviated AMD, and it is the same model […]

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Displacement in Trading: How the Displacement Candle Creates Fair Value Gaps and Signals Smart Money

  • Displacement in Trading: How the Displacement Candle Creates Fair Value Gaps and Signals Smart Money

    5 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Displacement in trading is an aggressive, one-directional price move, built from large-bodied candles with minimal wicks, that breaks market structure and leaves an imbalance behind it. In Smart Money Concepts and ICT vocabulary, that imbalance is a fair value gap, and displacement is the event that creates it. The move is read as institutional order […]

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The Turtle Soup Trade: Fading False Breakouts and Liquidity Sweeps

  • The Turtle Soup Trade: Fading False Breakouts and Liquidity Sweeps

    4 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    A Turtle Soup trade is a reversal setup that fades a failed breakout. Price trades above a recent high or below a recent low, attracts breakout orders and triggers stops around that obvious level, but cannot continue. When price returns inside the prior range and confirms a reversal, the trader enters against the failed break. […]

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TradingView Paper Trading: How to Use It, Reset It, and Set Your Virtual Balance

  • TradingView Paper Trading: How to Use It, Reset It, and Set Your Virtual Balance

    3 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    To reset Paper Trading on TradingView, open Supercharts, connect or select Paper Trading, open the account settings using the gear beside the account name, choose Reset account, enter the new balance, currency, and leverage settings, and confirm. The warning matters: a reset deletes the account’s open positions, active orders, transaction and account history. It cannot […]

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VPVR Indicator: How Volume Profile Visible Range Works and How to Trade It

  • VPVR Indicator: How Volume Profile Visible Range Works and How to Trade It

    1 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The VPVR indicator, short for Volume Profile Visible Range, plots how much volume traded at each price level for the candles currently visible on your chart. It draws that data as a horizontal histogram down the side of the price pane, so instead of asking how much volume happened at ten o’clock, you are asking […]

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cTrader vs MetaTrader: A Feature-by-Feature Comparison and How to Choose

  • cTrader vs MetaTrader: A Feature-by-Feature Comparison and How to Choose

    30 July 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    cTrader and MetaTrader are both professional-grade trading platforms, and there is no universal winner. The right one depends on three things: how you trade, whether you rely on automation, and which platforms your broker actually offers. cTrader leads on interface, automatic risk display, and Depth of Market; MetaTrader leads on the sheer size of its […]

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Overtrading: The Silent Account Killer, Its Causes, and How to Stop It

  • Overtrading: The Silent Account Killer, Its Causes, and How to Stop It

    29 July 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Overtrading is trading too frequently, or in positions too large for your plan and account, driven by emotion rather than a valid setup. It is more activity, not more profit: opening positions you cannot justify, holding them longer than the plan allows, and clicking because being flat feels wrong. The definition matters because the cure […]

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