Gold
How to Add XAUUSD to MT5: Find the Right Gold Symbol
How to add XAUUSD to MT5 through Market Watch, read its specification, and decode suffixes like XAUUSD.m so you pick the right gold symbol.
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Articles on trading gold (XAU/USD), from the basics every beginner needs to in-depth technical and fundamental analysis. Written by the PipsMorrow Team, with no trade signals or recommendations.
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Tools
Backtesting Trading Strategies Without Fooling Yourself
Backtesting trading strategies means replaying rules on old charts. Learn how to do it step by step and avoid the traps that make a weak system look strong.
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Getting started
Leverage in Forex: How It Works and How Much Is Too Much
Leverage in forex lets a small deposit control a larger position. See how margin differs from leverage, what the numbers look like and how much is too much.
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Tools
What Is Drawdown in Trading? How to Measure and Recover
What is drawdown in trading? It is the fall from an account's peak to its next low. Learn to measure it and why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover.
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Technical analysis
Candlestick Patterns Cheat Sheet: 12 Patterns on One Page
A candlestick patterns cheat sheet with 12 bullish and bearish patterns, plus the context each one needs before it means anything. Save the grid and use it.
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Technical analysis
Stop Loss in Trading: Placing It With Structure and ATR
Stop loss in trading explained: what a stop does, how to place it behind market structure, and how an ATR stop sizes it to volatility, with a gold example.
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