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Plain-language guides to trade with fewer avoidable mistakes: risk, size, news, prop firm rules and classic strategies. No signals, no promises.
The London breakout strategy, explained simplyThe London breakout explained simply: the overnight range, entry, stop, target, common traps and the position size for your risk.Position size: how many lots to trade for your stopHow to work out how many lots to trade from your stop and your risk: the formula, pip values on EURUSD, gold and indices, with examples.Prop firm rules: daily loss and max loss, explainedDaily loss limit, max loss, static or trailing drawdown, news rules: how prop firm limits work and how not to break them.Trading news days (NFP, CPI, Fed) without blowing upNFP, CPI, rate decisions: what happens when a release comes out, why accounts blow up on those days, and how to reduce the risk.Our method: where CandleGPT's numbers come fromData sources, risk and size calculations, setup rules, published results, the role of AI: how CandleGPT works, and what it never does.
Trading involves a high risk of losing money. This guide is educational: it is not investment advice and does not tell you what to buy or sell. Past results do not predict future results.