Written 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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Order Flow Trading Explained: Beginners Guide
At 6,802.25 on the S&P 500 futures, forty contracts sit resting on the bid. A trader hits them with a market sell. The bid absorbs the whole thing and does not move. Eighty more come in. Still nothing. Then a buyer lifts the offer above, and the candle you eventually see on your chart closes […]
How Much Money to Start Trading in 2026
Every broker on earth will let you open a live account for $50 or $100. That number won’t tell you how much money to start trading in 2026 is needed for making a living. The forums are full of traders who funded a small account, followed every rule they read, and still watched it disappear […]
How to Install Custom Indicators on MT5
Installing a custom indicator on MT5 is two moves: put the file in the right folder, then refresh the Navigator. That part rarely breaks anything. What actually breaks a terminal — or fills a chart with red “invalid indicator” errors — is everything upstream of that: the wrong file extension, a source file nobody compiled, […]
What Is NFP in Forex? Why It Moves Markets
What Is NFP in Forex? Why It Moves Markets and How to Survive the Spread Spike A payroll number can be only one line on an economic calendar, yet it can erase a technically perfect entry before the chart has time to print a normal candle. That is why asking what is nfp in forex […]
How to Control Emotions in Trading
You cannot control emotions in trading in the moment. Nobody can — not funded traders, not desk traders, not the person telling you to stay calm and trust the plan. The usual answer to how to control emotions in trading asks a nervous system already flooded with adrenaline to overrule itself while money moves on […]
Bitcoin Dominance Explained: What the BTC.D Chart Signals About Altcoin Risk
In the last week of April 2021, Bitcoin dominance sat near 57%. Weeks later the biggest altcoin rally in crypto history was underway — Ethereum ran from roughly $730 to $4,300, Solana went from about $1.50 to $50, and Bitcoin dominance collapsed toward 38%. As of mid-2026 the reading is back near 56%, a four-year […]
Premium and Discount Zones Explained for Smart Money Traders
Equilibrium is the 50% line of a price range, and most guides treat it as a step in drawing your zones. It is far more than that. It is a permission line. It tells you which half of the range you are allowed to trade, and which half you should leave alone. Here is the […]
What is a trading journal and how traders use it?
A trading journal earns its place only if re-reading it changes the trade you take next week. Most never get there. They fill with entry prices, exit prices, and a running profit-and-loss column, get reviewed for about a month, and then quietly become a spreadsheet nobody opens again. Lets dive down into this article by […]
Engulfing Candle Pattern – Definition, How It Works and Example
An engulfing candle pattern in the middle of a range is close to a coin flip. The same two-candle shape at a tested support or resistance level is a different trade entirely — and most guides never separate the two. Traders learn the shape — a small body swallowed by a larger one in the […]
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