SSergei B1d ago · 7 min readA Good Fill Price. What About the Fee?A limit order. You bought at exactly the price you specified, or even a little cheaper. So far, so good. But there is another line worth checking: what did the exchange charge for that fill? You can g1sergeialgo.hashnode.dev
SSergei B1d ago · 6 min readThe backtest used a 0.06% fee. What was my account actually paying?I develop trading bots. Our historical tests used a fee of 0.06% per side. When I checked the executions from one of my live accounts, though, the volume-weighted fee rate actually paid was about 0.081sergeialgo.hashnode.dev
AArnold Holm1d ago · 4 min readFixed UTC-5 is not the New York clockA fixed UTC-5 session and the New York clock can differ by a full hour. A conversion can therefore take different trades even when the entry formula agrees. If you move a Pine session to MT5, your clostratcorealpha.hashnode.dev
NNIck2d ago · 9 min readA Claude Code agent that trades Bitcoin Up/Down rounds over MCPIf your trading idea fits in a few sentences, the idea is rarely the expensive part. The expensive part is everything around it: an API client, order signing, reconnects, keeping track of what is rest12Alucyd.hashnode.dev
NNADAV BEN-HAMO2d ago · 6 min readCan AI Build My Trading Bot? What Claude Code Can and Can't Do"Just describe your strategy and the AI writes the bot" is one of the most seductive promises in retail trading right now. It's also one of the most misunderstood. Tools like Claude Code can genuinely11Av33systematic.hashnode.dev
AArnold Holm2d ago · 4 min readA 100 USD counter example: the challenge reset moves by one UTC hour25 October 2026. A hardcoded 22:00 UTC reset could erase a hypothetical 100 USD daily loss from your counter one hour early tonight. The loss has not disappeared from the challenge rule. Your softwarestratcorealpha.hashnode.dev
FForwardProof3d ago · 7 min readWe tested 1,000 random trading rules on gold: how many look great?This article was first published on ForwardProof. This Hashnode post is a reprint; the canonical version lives on ForwardProof. Real hourly XAUUSD prices from 2015 to 2026, real bid/ask spreads, a cle11Aforwardproof.hashnode.dev
AArnold Holm3d ago · 6 min readMT4 error 4107: log the exact price before changing it Your entry can look valid and still fail. My MT4 test returned error 4107 for an over-precise entry, then accepted current Ask. What the error means A trader testing XAUUSD reported an invalid price stratcorealpha.hashnode.dev
AArnold Holm5d ago · 4 min readYesterday’s $1,100 headroom is not today’s risk budgetYour challenge dashboard shows $99,100 above a $98,000 loss floor. Eight invented checks show why yesterday’s $1,100 headroom does not establish your current risk budget. The number can be valid and tstratcorealpha.hashnode.dev
DDisciply Market & Journal5d ago · 6 min readWhy H1 and H4 Trading Charts Can Tell Different Stories: The Technology Behind Financial Market AnalysisUnderstanding how timeframes, candlestick data, market structure and financial technology influence the way traders interpret price movements. Introduction Have you ever noticed that the same financia11Adisciply-engineering.hashnode.dev
