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  • #1,801
  • Oct 20, 2025 9:53am Oct 20, 2025 9:53am
Quoting turnip15
Dow pre US open. 5 minute UK time. ORB and "Mebob" bars both worked out well for anyone who follows them. Dax likewise. Not like this everyday unfortunately EDIT: Ignore vwap for this exercise. {image}
Dow US open ( UK time frame - 5 minute)
ORB and "Mebob"
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  • #1,802
  • Oct 21, 2025 6:10am Oct 21, 2025 6:10am
hi all
has anyone other than vidvad found success trading the fixed bar methods? Any preferences over which timeframe people prefer?
I was looking at 1min Breakouts but found I it very hard to only do 1 trade per day win or lose. I am more of a scalper and prefer to have a few trading opportunities. Interested to hear other peoples findings....?
On another note, I joined in the NinjaTrader arena competition yesterday which was an eye opener for sure....at 1 point during the day the results were as follows on the attached and it baffled me to see how someone could make £9k trading only 3 micro contracts (3 MES/3 MNQ/ 2MGC)....?!? For MES that would be 600 points right?! I made $150 and was happy as that was a lot for me using micros.... ha ha
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  • #1,803
  • Oct 21, 2025 6:29am Oct 21, 2025 6:29am
Quoting maplefx
hi all has anyone other than vidvad found success trading the fixed bar methods? Any preferences over which timeframe people prefer? I was looking at 1min Breakouts but found I it very hard to only do 1 trade per day win or lose. I am more of a scalper and prefer to have a few trading opportunities. Interested to hear other peoples findings....? On another note, I joined in the NinjaTrader arena competition yesterday which was an eye opener for sure....at 1 point during the day the results were as follows on the attached and it baffled me...
They are using "pretend" money. In other words no one is putting their own money on the line. Using your own money brings into play your mental demons or " mind fuck" as alluded to by someone else.
Your own style of trading is something you evolve by looking at others rather than emulating them and putting your own stamp on it. The "Turtles" are a case in point: They were actually given a method to trade but each trader got different results, and some lost whilst others gained. In the end it is you v the markets.
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  • #1,804
  • Oct 21, 2025 6:45am Oct 21, 2025 6:45am
Last post for a while.
ORB and "Mebob" on Dax 5 minute chart, UK time
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  • #1,805
  • Oct 22, 2025 2:54am Oct 22, 2025 2:54am
Quoting maplefx
hi all has anyone other than vidvad found success trading the fixed bar methods? Any preferences over which timeframe people prefer? I was looking at 1min Breakouts but found I it very hard to only do 1 trade per day win or lose. I am more of a scalper and prefer to have a few trading opportunities. Interested to hear other peoples findings....? On another note, I joined in the NinjaTrader arena competition yesterday which was an eye opener for sure....at 1 point during the day the results were as follows on the attached and it baffled me...
Hi maplefx, yes. I use M5 fixed bar. Current month profit factor 3.18, winning trades 83%, max balance drawdown 0.93%.

BT
  • #1,806
  • Oct 22, 2025 8:01am Oct 22, 2025 8:01am
Quoting maplefx
On another note, I joined in the NinjaTrader arena competition yesterday which was an eye opener for sure....at 1 point during the day the results were as follows on the attached and it baffled me to see how someone could make £9k trading only 3 micro contracts (3 MES/3 MNQ/ 2MGC)....?!? For MES that would be 600 points right?! I made $150 and was happy as that was a lot for me using micros.... ha ha
As far as that competition goes, I'd bet that anyone banking $9K in profits was trading the MGC micro gold contracts, and if trading US indices traded NQ around the open. I've been trading gold only the past few days, and 90% of my trades last week were gold. Also, I'm not familiar with the Ninja Arena comp (hearing about it here today for the first time) but looking at it, you start with a $25K account, and unlike these prop firms who really DON'T want you to succeed, there is no drawdown limit. I may be mistaken, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong. With no drawdown limit set close to your starting balance, it will "free" a trader up to come out swinging hard without fear that a $1K or $2K loss knocks them out of the competition.

That being said, I am a firm believer in the "slow is fast" mantra when it comes to building equity from trading, whether swing trading positions over days and weeks or scalping for minutes at a time as a day trader. The market giveth, and the market will taketh away if you don't carefully manage risk and position size relative to your equity.

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Quoting maplefx
hi all has anyone other than vidvad found success trading the fixed bar methods? Any preferences over which timeframe people prefer? I was looking at 1min Breakouts but found I it very hard to only do 1 trade per day win or lose. I am more of a scalper and prefer to have a few trading opportunities. Interested to hear other peoples findings....?
I do not believe that trading M1 breakouts is the best choice for any trader, especially if you are trading micro contracts. The spread can be several ticks or even a point or two wide, and I do believe there is a touch more machine manipulation on the micros than on the full size minis.

For scalping, my new best friend is the simple line on close chart, M1 on NQ and M5 on gold. I have begun using the tools found in bluesteele's Blues Clues thread for this type of trading. I specifically look for reversals and breakouts at my usual pivotal levels (today's open, high, and low; yesterday's high, low, and close, and last week's high and low) as well as the VWAP and volume profile levels that blue uses. I do not use the weekly or monthly levels as blue does. I stick to the current session.

M1 fixed bar is likely not going to take you where you want to go. It surprises me that you were trying to do an M1 fixed bar and also stick to one trade per day. If you really can stick to one trade per day, then an M15 or HIGHER would be better.

Perhaps you are still in too much of a hurry, and you think fast is fast. Fast isn't fast, as your own example shows. Belgrath is living proof that slow is fast. If you try to do this quickly you'll end up like me and so many others: You will spend years on one side of the equity curve or the other, but not making any real progress towards building that steadily rising equity curve that is the hallmark of one who has "made it."`

Finally, this thread and the fixed bar method is not meant to yield a profitable outcome, though if you match the proper timing window, bar interval, and instrument, it will certainly do that. However, the main goal (the ONLY goal, really) is to train you to trade a fixed rule trading plan so that you will come to control your attachment to the outcome of every particular trade and instead train your emotional and mental discipline to accept that trading is a large numbers probability game.

I may be wrong, maple, but it seems to me that you are still looking for the magic method, rather than accepting that you are the problem, and committing a few months to working solely on yourself.
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  • #1,807
  • Oct 22, 2025 9:45am Oct 22, 2025 9:45am
Quoting BataviaTrade
{quote} Hi maplefx, yes. I use M5 fixed bar. Current month profit factor 3.18, winning trades 83%, max balance drawdown 0.93%. BT
Yes -like the sp500 today on the 5 minute UK time Mebob bar ( 2:30pm ORB also shown if interested)
Ignore all my vwap lines. Just the Mebob and Roadmap.
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  • #1,808
  • Oct 22, 2025 9:51am Oct 22, 2025 9:51am
Quoting vidvad
{quote} As far as that competition goes, I'd bet that anyone banking $9K in profits was trading the MGC micro gold contracts, and if trading US indices traded NQ around the open. I've been trading gold only the past few days, and 90% of my trades last week were gold. Also, I'm not familiar with the Ninja Arena comp (hearing about it here today for the first time) but looking at it, you start with a $25K account, and unlike these prop firms who really DON'T want you to succeed, there is no drawdown limit. I may be mistaken, so feel free to correct...
The competition, apart from fun and/or polishing the ego of many, is pointless. You have no "skin" in the game and your psychological balance is under no stress.
Prop firms ( Not real one's) know that 90% or more fail or that people will treat the cheap entry fees as a reason to gamble. But remember that $100K dollar account is only as good as your permitted drawdown of $1500 or whatever: In other words a prudent trader would behave as if he has only a $1500 account. Not everyone can be a "Montygoldy on the prop firm thread pulling thousands from prop firms, if such thread is factually accurate.
Yes, I suppose I am a killjoy but someone has to be.
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  • #1,809
  • Oct 22, 2025 10:21am Oct 22, 2025 10:21am
I challenged myself with FTMO demo account and tried to do 20 days trading challenge without changing method, without letting psychology interfere and just consistently doing what I set out to do. I traded according to the author's method and this is the result. It's unbelievable.
I have created many demo accounts before but never been able to complete the goal, but now, with the author's simple method, I have conquered it myself. IT'S SO SIMPLE THAT I CAN'T BELIEVE!!! This is ftmo demo account and only allows trading for 2 weeks with 5% profit to reach the goal

I just turn on the computer at a fixed time, place orders and trust the process. No stress, no psychology.

I posted it just to strengthen your belief in this method and actually no one will want to share a trading method to make money, I will keep it for myself and you can find it by watching all the videos on Vidvad's youtube. Be persistent and act like a machine, trading becomes simple.
Thank you to the author for spending time and effort making video on youtube so that one day, I can read it.
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  • #1,810
  • Oct 23, 2025 6:28pm Oct 23, 2025 6:28pm
Quoting phamha20
I challenged myself with FTMO demo account and tried to do 20 days trading challenge without changing method, without letting psychology interfere and just consistently doing what I set out to do. I traded according to the author's method and this is the result. It's unbelievable. I have created many demo accounts before but never been able to complete the goal, but now, with the author's simple method, I have conquered it myself. IT'S SO SIMPLE THAT I CAN'T BELIEVE!!! This is ftmo demo account and only allows trading for 2 weeks with 5% profit...
Thanks for sharing your experience!

I know I've mentioned in the thread that I hear of success stories from a number of FF'ers who don't wish to post in the thread. I know you've not messaged me yourself. However, I encourage others to share their stories here just as you have. This approach really does "work."

Fixed bar trading fixed me, and it can fix you to if you let it.
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  • #1,811
  • Edited Oct 24, 2025 6:50am Oct 23, 2025 6:35pm | Edited Oct 24, 2025 6:50am
Sports betting, imo, is the type of gambling most analogous to trading. Why? Well, in sports betting you are trading a market just as we are when we trade futures, forex, and cfd's.

In sports betting, you don't HAVE to bet. You can pick your spots. You wait for the market to come to you. You don't like the price (odds) the sportsbook is giving you? Screw them. You know where your edge is, and if it doesn't appear, you don't bet.

Another similarity is that for a long time, traders have been told that you should only trade if you have a 2:1 reward to risk. Similarly, sports bettors have been taught that to be a pro you need to win 55% of your bets at an average odds of -110.

This video is keyed up to a section that disputes that claim.

In this video, this sports bettor suggests that an R:R very similar to what I've been suggesting here is optimal. You want a high win rate, and you must be willing to accept smaller profits in exchange for aq higher win rate and be willing to lose a larger amount than you win on those trades (bets) that you do lose.

Inserted Video
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  • #1,812
  • Oct 24, 2025 8:51am Oct 24, 2025 8:51am
My GC (XAUUSD, gold) account. Do keep in mind that 24 trades is not 24 separate trades. It is number of contracts traded to open + close.

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  • #1,813
  • Oct 24, 2025 9:00am Oct 24, 2025 9:00am
ES Fixed Bar. I do not understand those who insist on scalping 1 minute charts over and over when it is so much easier to place on trade, let it win or lose, and then close the machine and rinse/repeat the next day.

4/5 this week on ES. You don't have to win them all.

You merely have to have a process and then follow your process every single day.

Process over profits. If you chase profits, you will never adhere to your process for more than a few days at a time, then you blow up.

If instead to follow process, the profits will inevitably come. Inevitably.

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  • #1,814
  • Oct 24, 2025 9:19am Oct 24, 2025 9:19am
Quoting phamha20
I challenged myself with FTMO demo account and tried to do 20 days trading challenge without changing method, without letting psychology interfere and just consistently doing what I set out to do. I traded according to the author's method and this is the result. It's unbelievable. I have created many demo accounts before but never been able to complete the goal, but now, with the author's simple method, I have conquered it myself. IT'S SO SIMPLE THAT I CAN'T BELIEVE!!! This is ftmo demo account and only allows trading for 2 weeks with 5% profit...
Hey friend, so you are saying you traded the 5min ES each day, only entered when price closed beyond high/low of the 10:05 EST reference bar? And if yes, what was your risk to reward, how did you exit?
  • #1,815
  • Oct 24, 2025 2:21pm Oct 24, 2025 2:21pm
Quoting BataviaTrade
{quote} Hi maplefx, yes. I use M5 fixed bar. Current month profit factor 3.18, winning trades 83%, max balance drawdown 0.93%. BT
fantastic results congratulations Batavia!!! That is a high profit factor! Keep it up
  • #1,816
  • Oct 24, 2025 2:25pm Oct 24, 2025 2:25pm
Quoting vidvad
{quote}__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ {quote} I may be wrong, maple, but it seems to me that you are still looking for the magic method, rather than accepting that you are the problem, and committing a few months to working solely on yourself.
thanks for the reply and advice Vid, much appreciated. I have been looking at 30min fixed bar breakouts and creating my stats so from next Monday I will be testing these out. Be interested to hear more on your new approach with the significant lines as I enjoyed your prev YouTube vids. Be well !
  • #1,817
  • Oct 24, 2025 2:37pm Oct 24, 2025 2:37pm
Quoting vidvad
My GC (XAUUSD, gold) account. Do keep in mind that 24 trades is not 24 separate trades. It is number of contracts traded to open + close. {image}
thanks for sharing real results! which method (fixed or otherwise) were you using on this account?
  • #1,818
  • Oct 24, 2025 3:07pm Oct 24, 2025 3:07pm
Quoting maplefx
{quote} thanks for sharing real results! which method (fixed or otherwise) were you using on this account?
I'm using M30 fixed bar and the Blues Clues methods both.

I could never do as well with the Blues Clues method as I am doing had I not mastered myself first by committing to the fixed bar method for nearly an entire year.

Slow is fast, when it comes to trading success.

The quicker you try to make a million, the more likely you are to lose a million instead.
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  • #1,819
  • Oct 24, 2025 3:11pm Oct 24, 2025 3:11pm
Quoting MrReRaise82
{quote} Hey friend, so you are saying you traded the 5min ES each day, only entered when price closed beyond high/low of the 10:05 EST reference bar? And if yes, what was your risk to reward, how did you exit?
I don't believe he is saying that at all. He said he watched all of my youtube videos, which leads me to believe he picked an instrument and a bar interval and a reward:risk that fit his specific market.

Also, and I may be wrong, but I think he explicitly said he didn't wish to provide details about his own particular trading plan. Maybe he is trading ES. However, he might be trading crude or gold or the DAX or the Nikkei or soybeans ... pick a market that has ample volatility and sufficient liquidity during your chosen trading window, and construct a trading plan. You can do it!
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  • #1,820
  • Oct 24, 2025 3:19pm Oct 24, 2025 3:19pm
Quoting vidvad
{quote} I don't believe he is saying that at all. He said he watched all of my youtube videos, which leads me to believe he picked an instrument and a bar interval and a reward:risk that fit his specific market. Also, and I may be wrong, but I think he explicitly said he didn't wish to provide details about his own particular trading plan. Maybe he is trading ES. However, he might be trading crude or gold or the DAX or the Nikkei or soybeans ... pick a market that has ample volatility and sufficient liquidity during your chosen trading window, and...
Thanks vidvad! Yeah, I got excited cause I am just halfway into a 10k challenge on FTMO myself and was intrigued. I did try Mebob around springtime, didn't work for me back then so I thought of at least trying to pick his brain. But if he doesn't wanna share, it's fine. Good to know nevertheless that it does work in a prop setting too.
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