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Articles by Brokeli Education Desk
- Backtesting Pitfalls: Overfitting, Survivorship Bias and Look-AheadA backtest replays a trading rule on historical data to see how it would have performed. It is a useful filter, but it is also remarkably easy to fool. Many impressive equity curves come from the test setup rather than …
- Support, Resistance and Trendlines: Drawing Them Without Fooling YourselfSupport, resistance and trendlines are the first tools most chart readers learn, and the easiest to misuse. With enough lines on a chart, price will always seem to respect something. This guide shows how to draw them wi…
- Candlestick Patterns: What They Show and How Reliable They AreCandlestick charts pack four prices into one shape, and a library of named patterns has grown around them: hammers, dojis, engulfing bars, stars. The names are memorable, which is part of the problem. A memorable name c…
- Fibonacci Levels and Pivot Points: Uses and LimitsFibonacci retracements and pivot points are among the most widely drawn lines on trading charts. Both are easy to calculate, which is part of their appeal, and both are often given more credit than the evidence supports…
- Volatility, ATR and Position SizingA fixed 30-pip stop means something very different on a calm day than on a day when the market is moving 150 pips. Volatility is the size of typical price movement, and ignoring it is one of the commonest reasons stops …
- How to Compare Brokers Step by StepComparing brokers by scrolling through feature lists rarely ends well, because every provider looks good on its own homepage. A better approach is to decide what you need first, remove unsafe options early, and put a re…
- Swap-Free (Islamic) Accounts Explained: Fees, Conditions, Questions to AskSwap-free accounts remove the overnight interest that normally applies to leveraged positions held past the daily cut-off. They were built for clients who avoid interest for religious reasons, but removing one charge do…
- Deposit and Withdrawal Methods Compared: Speed, Cost and RiskPutting money into a brokerage account is almost always easy. Getting it out is where differences appear. The funding method you choose affects speed, cost, currency conversion and even which withdrawal options you will…
- Standard, ECN and Raw Accounts ExplainedAccount names like Standard, Pro, ECN and Raw sound like a ladder from basic to advanced. In practice they mostly describe one thing: how the broker charges you. Once you see that, the choice becomes a piece of arithmet…
- Market Maker vs ECN/STP: Execution Models and Conflicts of InterestEvery leveraged trade has a counterparty. Who that counterparty is, and what they gain when you lose, is the heart of the market maker versus ECN/STP debate. Neither model is automatically honest or dishonest, but each …
- How Client Money Protection Works: Segregation, Compensation and Their LimitsPhrases like 'your funds are safe' and 'segregated accounts' appear on almost every broker website. They describe real protections, but each one covers a narrower set of risks than the wording suggests. Knowing exactly …
- Broker Complaints and Dispute Resolution: A Practical Escalation PathMost broker problems start small: a withdrawal that stalls, a stop that filled badly, a fee nobody mentioned. Whether they get resolved often depends less on who is right than on how clearly and how early you document t…