A hedged account feels safe because the floating loss stops moving. Meanwhile both legs quietly pay negative swap every night, and on gold the bill runs into hundreds a month. Here's the maths.
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Gold wrecks more retail accounts than any forex pair we see, and it's not bad luck. Contract size, margin load, spread spikes and gaps: here's the exact machinery, with numbers.
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Gold punishes forex habits. Here is the actual rulebook we trade by: ATR-based sizing, stops placed past the hunt zones, and hard protocols for NFP, CPI and FOMC weeks.
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Gold punishes forex habits. Same lot size, four times the daily exposure, and a drawdown that arrives in an afternoon instead of a fortnight. Here is how we size, stop and recover on the only instrument we trade.
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