Articles by Miles Rowan Keene
As Senior Market Strategist at PropLynq, I write about market structure, trading psychology, and risk-first execution. My focus is on turning complex market behavior into clear, actionable lessons for both developing and experienced traders. I specialize in educational content covering funded account rules, drawdown management, trade planning, and strategy refinement, with the goal of helping traders build consistency through discipline, preparation, and a deeper understanding of how professional trading environments operate.
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How to Trade Price Channels
Draw the base trendline first. Then project the channel from it. That one discipline — construct first, fit second — separates a valid price channel from noise dressed up as a pattern. Most guides on how to trade price channels skip this distinction entirely, which is why most traders end up with curve-fitted channels: two […]
Rate Hikes and Cuts Explained — Why Markets Act Opposite
The central bank just cut rates. The currency went up. This is not a reporting error or a market glitch. It is one of the most repeatable patterns in prop trading, and it happens precisely because almost every rate hikes and cuts explainer stops at the most surface-level version of how central bank decisions move […]
Prop Firm Challenge Psychology Mastering the Mindset
You already know how to trade. That is the strange part about failing an evaluation, and it is why Prop Firm Challenge Psychology matters. The setups you take on your own account work fine; the same setups inside a challenge fall apart. Nothing changed about the chart. What changed is that a rule is now […]
How to Calculate Pip Value by Pair in Forex
A pip is not always worth $10. It’s worth $10 on some pairs, in some account currencies, at some lot sizes — and on everything else it’s a number you have to work out. Traders who memorize “$10 a pip” and stop there end up sizing USD/JPY and EUR/GBP positions wrong, then wonder why their […]
How to Trade Support and Resistance Zones in 2026
“Buy at support, sell at resistance.” It’s the first rule most traders learn, and it’s the reason their stops keep getting clipped by a single wick right before price does exactly what they predicted. The logic isn’t wrong. Support and resistance are real. The problem is that almost everyone draws them as a single, pixel-thin […]
Fair Value Gap – How to Trade FVGs
A fair value gap is not a buy signal. That single misread is responsible for more blown evaluations than almost any other smart-money concept, because traders see the three-candle pattern, treat it as an instruction, and click. Most of the gaps you can see on a chart are untradeable. The skill that separates a profitable […]
Forex Lot Size Calculator – How to Calculate Position Size
Here is the trap almost no one warns you about: you can use a perfect forex lot size calculator, risk a disciplined 1% per trade, follow every rule you were taught — and still fail a funded challenge in a single afternoon. Not because your sizing math was wrong. Because it was solving the wrong […]
Bitcoin 4 Year Cycle – Is It Real and Will It Break?
The bitcoin 4 year cycle has run the same way three times in a row. Thirty-five months of bull market. Twelve months of bear market. Three times, measured to the quarter. The next one is going to be different. Not different as in “maybe slightly shorter” or “institutional adoption might smooth it out” — the […]
Fibonacci Retracement Levels – How to Actually Trade Them
A trader watches EUR/USD rip 120 pips, stall, and pull back into the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level. He buys. No other reason — the line is there, and the line is “supposed” to hold. Price knifes straight through it, clips his stop, runs another 80 pips against him, then reverses almost exactly where he’d been […]
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