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Retail trading
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Win rate is not skill
November 2026A no-stop, add-on-loss mechanic wins 98–100% of its baskets with random entries too; the cost is a rare total loss, and most of the profit was gold's trend.
Who gets paid while you trade?
November 2026How brokers pay the people who send them clients, how brokers earn from retail flow, and what regulators say about both.
Risk management cannot create an edge
November 2026Position sizing changes how fast an account moves and how spread out the outcomes are; it cannot change the sign of the expected result.
Prop-firm challenges at zero edge
November 2026Under published prop-firm rules, a coin-flip trader reaches a funded account in 0–28% of accounts and gets back a median of about $0.20 per fee dollar.
Patterns are real; edges aren't
November 2026Setups taught on Turkish trading channels, coded from their own definitions and tested with costs and controls: across 3,552 + 1,536 + 3,828 variants, none survived.
How the retail-trading influencer economy is wired
November 2026A map of the money: income lines that do not depend on whether the follower succeeds, set against how often retail traders actually lose.
Copy trading: who is paid, and for what
November 2026How copied traders are paid, how regulators classify copy trading, and the number nobody publishes: how copiers actually do.