Edwin Ebe
Edwin Ebe🇦🇪Trading live
$20,000 · The Trading Pit
Edwin Ebe is documenting a CFD 2-Step · MT5 challenge with The Trading Pit (Indices, Oil & Crypto), as part of the JoinProp Real Prop Challenge.
LinkedInThe journey
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- LinkedInA textbook setup that still lost, AUDUSD
A textbook setup still lost today, and here is why that is okay. Even when every indicator aligns, edge is a game of probabilities, not guarantees. On AUDUSD (30m) the playbook was set: a clean acceptance area around the value area high at 0.71600 to 0.71700, rejection off structural resistance at 0.71790 with a clear breakdown below the point of control, and open room down toward discount demand near 0.71073 and 0.70956. The result was a loss. Price invalidated the clean structure, took out risk levels and moved on. When you lose on a bad trade, it is a mistake. When you lose on a good setup, it is just the cost of doing business. Three rules keeping me grounded after a tough session: focus on process, not outcome, because if you executed your system according to plan you won mentally regardless of the P&L; accept the sample size, since no single trade defines your edge and a 60% win rate means 4 out of 10 trades will fail; and walk away on schedule, because closing the terminal after a loss preserves capital, daily drawdown limits and mental energy for tomorrow. Trading is not about avoiding red days, it is about making sure your red days stay small enough that your green days easily outpace them.
- LinkedInMarket structure breakdown — gold & silver
Precision mechanics in gold and silver. When markets shift into high-volatility regimes, relying on multi-timeframe confirmation over emotion is what keeps the edge sharp. On XAUUSD, a clean strong-buy signal triggered right off the lower demand baseline near 4,302.31, with price expanding from there.
- LinkedInMonday Market Blueprint — scaling past $20,066
Kicked off the week scaling the account past $20,066 with disciplined execution on XAUUSD and USTEC (NAS100). The focus: holding momentum above key support, clean buys off demand — and patience over FOMO, letting the signals confirm setups instead of chasing price mid-candle.
- LinkedInCapital preservation on US30 → NAS100
Capital preservation over everything. Yesterday’s US30 session was a masterclass in volatility — liquidity sweeps, false breakouts and deep pullbacks. Instead of forcing entries I sized down, protected the base (closed roughly breakeven, ~0.3% floating drawdown, surviving two news spikes) and stayed patient rather than revenge trading. Today I shifted focus to NAS100, executing a high-probability short off the 0.5/0.618 Fib confluence at 29,800 ahead of U.S. inflation data. Staying in the game beats chasing a big return.
- LinkedInAnnouncement
Next chapter in my trading journey. Excited to announce that I’m officially joining the JoinProp initiative as I take on The Trading Pit