Disliked{quote} I personally do not think it is worth trying to refine a strategy with a 1.5-pip stoploss. Even if you do somehow manage to profit consistently on a demo account, I have doubts it would work on a live account with slippage. Especially if you're trading during news. Your account will most likely experience death by a thousand cuts. You said it yourself that unless you are scalping, there is not much of a difference between demo and live. You, however, are scalping. Even if you aim for 100 pips, you still are not giving enough room for error....Ignored
- I do not trade during news, I made the demo and didn't check the calendar as I normally do when trading my live account.
- It's is scalping but again I am using the limit orders as I am aware the demo execution may be a bit faster If I do it manually
-what is realistic? please don't tell me the norm because 99% of traders lose money and it can't be due to lack of disciple alone, traditional methods are flawed some more than others.
- The spread is.5 pip on average, the stop loss is taken to break even very very fast. Capital preservation is key.
- when trading momentum I do not expect the market to move against me very much if it does then I was wrong.