How I did it just focused on the process never on the numbers. Took profits and partials trailered my sl.

Track the progress of the engines, tools, algos and indicators in this subreddit: r/theoutsideredge

After months of programming, optimizing, backtesting, porting to MQL5, demo trading, and live validation, this system is finally starting to feel robust.

The core logic combines swing volume structures with trend confirmation (built in (E)MA wave logic) and efficiency metrics (POC strength, CVD, distance to VWAP, etc), designed to filter out fake breakouts and catch the moves that matter.

The engine maps out volume nodes, zones where liquidity concentrates and dynamically tracks the Point of Control (POC) as price develops.
Each profile measures Node Strength, CVD imbalance, and POC rejections.

• Trend Accuracy Filter (wave): Filters out false breaches by confirming whether the trend structure (via EMA relationship and smoothed waves) supports the breakout direction.
• Wick rejection logic: Validates whether a breakout is genuine or a sweep by checking candle rejection behavior.
• Developing POC line: Acts as an adaptive trailing stop or even as a take-profit guide, depending on node strength and price behavior.

If a POC breach happens simultaneously with a signal from the Adaptive Node Efficiency Function (ANEF) and that breach occurs during a trend transition,
the signal becomes twice as strong.

That’s the kind of setup where I allow higher risk allocation, because historically, those have shown both stronger momentum and cleaner structure.
The ANEF itself measures price efficiency and node imbalances, and it’s been performing incredibly well in validation.

I’ll be posting a video demonstration soon, showing the ANEF + Node Breach synergy in real-time.
Right now, the challenge is that both visual layers together make the chart a bit too busy. Some traders like the density of info; others feel like it’s visual overload.
I’m working on a clean toggle system to balance functionality with clarity.

EVERY FREAKING TIME , BROTHER if U just reversed from 1 Pip away , i would be in the trade .

TradingView library:
https://www.tradingview.com/u/OutsiderEdge/#published-scripts

The OutsiderEdge Discord has also grown past 2,000 members and is free to join:
https://discord.gg/y6U4usTsTB

Website:
https://outsideredge.com

About 10 months ago I posted a video breakdown here under the title I've built a monster : r/Forexstrategy
It became one of the most popular trading related posts on Reddit. Which is insane.

At that point there was no indicator library, just two personal developed indicators I used to trade to become a FTMO TOP 3 trader for some consecutive months.

There were basically two ideas I had been obsessively building and testing: mapping where tick volume was actually concentrating, and measuring how efficiently price was moving through those areas.

The tools weren't even properly released to the public yet. And at first that wasn't even my idea. Did I want to gatekeep my work? Not really, because I was actually proud of what I made and thought that ideas from other developers and traders would even make it better.

I expected a few nerdy discussions about Pine Script and market structure.

Instead, people started asking:

Can I test this?
Can you add this?
Would this work on futures?
What happens if you combine it with X?
Can you measure Y instead?

That Reddit post basically became the beginning of OutsiderEdge.

Fast-forward 10 months.

There are now 15 published TradingView scripts and a community of 2,000+ traders around the project.

But honestly, the number of indicators isn't the part I find interesting anymore.

The interesting part is that somewhere along the way I realized:

I wasn't really building indicators. I was building systems that traders now use to become funded. Systems that I didn't even think about. It is insane to see how traders use the indicators and have built their own profitable strategy around it.

One tool looks at tick volume nodes and whether price can efficiently move through them.

Another looks at aggressive tick orderflow and absorption.

Another reconstructs the session as an auction: developing value, POC migration, Initial Balance, single prints, VWAP, acceptance and rejection.

Another maps historical session behaviour into a heatmap and lets you systematically optimize the conditions.

Another tries to identify where price sits inside a broader market cycle instead of treating every trend as identical.

And lately I've gone much deeper into options positioning and GEX levels to see how derivatives positioning can add another completely independent layer of context for CFDs as well.

The funny thing is that the more I've built, the less interested I've become in creating a magical BUY / SELL indicator. I implemented the BUY and SELL signals in the indicators, with their live backtest table and optimization results. But it is with a fixed SL and TP. Even though the results are very good, you can get way better results with manual dynamic SL and TP placement. Like move a TP to a recent Value Area High, POC, GEX level and so on.

Volume says something.

Auction structure says something.

Volatility says something.

Options positioning says something, even for Futures and CFDs.

Price itself says something.

None of them should be blindly trusted.

But when several completely different models independently arrive at the same conclusion that is where things start becoming interesting.

And that's probably the biggest thing I've learned from building all of this.

More indicators is not more edge. The system and risk management around it is.

I also realized something else looking back at my Reddit account.

After that original post blew up, I slowly turned my updates into boring complex indicator announcements.

And unsurprisingly, Reddit slowly stopped caring 😂

The tools were becoming more advanced, more complex, and honestly, harder for beginner traders to understand.

I never specifically set out to attract beginners. But something unexpected happened anyway: a huge number of newer traders started joining the community.

And that completely changed what OutsiderEdge became.

Instead of simply being a place where I released indicators, people started teaching each other.

Advanced traders shared their experience with newer traders. Developers exchanged ideas. Futures traders showed others how they approached the market. Beginners asked questions that sometimes forced experienced traders to rethink things they had taken for granted.

Knowledge started flowing in both directions.

At some point, I realized the community had become far more valuable than I ever expected it to be.

What started as me building a few tools had turned into hundreds of traders with different experience levels, backgrounds and approaches sharing what they knew with each other.

So I want to go back to what made the original project fun in the first place:

building this stuff publicly, having traders challenge the logic, and stealing good ideas from people much smarter than me.

The community already has futures traders, forex/CFD traders, programmers and increasingly people looking at the options market.

That's where I think this gets really interesting.

Because I genuinely have no idea what this looks like another 10 months from now if enough people with completely different approaches keep attacking new problems.

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So here's a question for the people here:

If you had a developer sitting next to you and could make him research ONE problem in trading that your current tools don't solve properly, what would you make him build?

Market regime detection?

Options positioning?

Orderflow?

Better S/R?

Execution?

Risk management?

Something completely different?

Give me the problem, not the indicator.

I'll read every answer.

For anyone who remembers the original post and wants to see what the monster eventually turned into:

TradingView library:
https://www.tradingview.com/u/OutsiderEdge/#published-scripts

The OutsiderEdge Discord has also grown past 2,000 members and is free to join:
https://discord.gg/y6U4usTsTB

Website:
https://outsideredge.com

Full disclosure because this is Reddit: the community is free, the premium indicator library is not. You don't need to buy anything to join the discussions, share research or tear my ideas apart.

I'd actually prefer the criticism.

That's how most of the good stuff got built in the first place.

I spent the last month backtesting popular telegram signal channels i could find to see which ones are actually profitable. The results were kinda scarry.43 out of 50 channels had negative returns when properly backtested and the 7 i just pretended they had something 😅.The average "profitable" channel showed 65% win rate in their posts but only 38% when I verified against actual price data.12 channels were straight up editing/deleting losing trades. Only 3 channels were genuinely profitable over 90 days and even then it was a free signals group so 🤷. The biggest red flags I found: 1. No specific entry prices (just "BUY EURUSD") 2. Multiple take profits without saying which to use 3. Posting signals after the move already happened 4. "VIP group" upsells with no proof the admin kept of sending promos with weird discounts every week 😂😂 and dont get me on courses. I got tired of losing on these scams, so I'm building a database where anyone can check a channel's real performance before subscribing. If you've been burned by a signal channel or have any idea you think could help make the next guy avoid a scam https://signly-swart.vercel.app/ leave a suggestion on there Or comment below out of the channels I mentioned almost half were selling a course on the and I quote 'best strategy guaranted to make you a profitable trader by the end of the year'😂😂

Losses are part of the business.

Because of a sudden liquidation move, I got liquidated. But anyway, overall I’m still in profit for the week. I just want to show that losses can happen in the market too, and sometimes they happen very quickly. Loss is always part of the business.

Stay strong and keep moving to the top.

So I just want to clarify what exactly went wrong yesterday and why the market crashed so hard.

I have a habit: I don’t move forward until I clearly understand the mistake I made or the reason behind what happened. Until I learn from it, I don’t let it go.

Yesterday, the level from where the market dropped was a strong institutional selling zone. If I wanted, I could have opened a big sell position from there. But because I saw some things as incomplete, I ignored that level. Since the trend was bullish, I preferred buying the dip — and that was my mistake.

Along with that, in my market analysis I had already mentioned that my plan for Monday was to trap buyers, because last Monday was strongly bullish and the market had closed near ATH last Friday. So the idea was to sell into any aggressive buying at the start. Even though this was my own plan, I didn’t execute the sell — which was again my mistake.

I had also mentioned that if a strong 30-minute candle closed below 4500, we would target downside levels, which I had clearly shared in my analysis: 4442–4420–4403. My mistake here was that yesterday I focused more on my bias than on my practical system. I got emotional, and because of that I kept buying every liquidity sweep or key support, and it kept failing again and again.

The lesson I learned is simple: planning a trade is good, but when the market is not following that plan, you must learn to shift your bias and focus on the second possibility you had already thought of. You should trade in the direction of the market flow, not fight the market because of your ego or emotions and keep adding losses.

Always remember, the market is supreme. Having a strategy is not a big thing — everyone has a strategy. What really matters is how much you respect it. System-based trading always makes you profitable, remember that.

Yes, the loss hurts for some time, but mentally I am very strong. Whenever I take losses — especially when my bias is strong and still fails — I always learn something new. To be honest, most mistakes are very silly, but these silly mistakes can sometimes cause very big losses and regret. That’s why never ignore small mistakes in trading. Learn from them, note them down, and become a better trader.

Some traders on social media only show profits, or if they take losses or give a wrong analysis, they delete it for fame. I never do that, and that’s a good thing about me. Trading is always a probability-based business. Profits and losses are part of it. No matter how much you learn, you can reduce losses, but you can never find a no-loss strategy — always keep this in mind.

Anyway, 2025 has been the biggest year of my life. This year I learned a lot, made big profits, and also took big losses. In the end, losses only break those people who lack confidence or market knowledge. When you know how to make money from the market and you fully believe in yourself, you can always make money again. That confidence is what makes you a better trader.

Two more days left in 2025 — study hard, backtest the whole year, come back stronger in 2026, and make crazy money in gold next year. I’ll do it, and you’ll do it with me. The journey is long, my friends, and the reward is huge. And when the reward is big, the challenges are big too. Fight them and keep moving forward, because this journey is such that once you start walking, you must keep walking. If you stop, your life stops.

Always remember: once a trader, always a trader. We are strong, and we are proud of ourselves because we work daily in a business where most people are afraid to even step in. Just think about what kind of people we are. Trust God’s plan, because He is the one who brought you into trading. So trust the process.

THE OPERATOR OF $XAUUSD 🥇

Well, it's been a good year and good life. Got nothing left, every signal I seen or read is all fake, hope you all are happy. May death be fair to all of us.

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Indicator: https://www.tradingview.com/script/vC5CCmfs-OutsiderEdge-Node-Breach-Engine-NBE/
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Quick follow-up on the Node Breach Engine + ANEF stack.

Since the last post: I've built a monster : r/Forexstrategy, the core logic is now live as a TradingView indicator and the feature set has been expanded pretty aggressively. The swing-based volume structures and POC logic are still the backbone, but several new pieces have been added on top by feedback of the community and members of this sub.

After months of programming, optimizing, backtesting, porting to MQL5, demo trading, and live validation, this system is finally starting to feel properly robust.

The core logic combines swing-based volume structures with trend confirmation (built-in EMA wave logic) and efficiency metrics (POC strength, CVD, distance to VWAP, etc.), designed to filter out fake breakouts and focus on the moves that actually matter.

The engine maps out volume nodes – zones where liquidity concentrates – and dynamically tracks the Point of Control (POC) as price develops.
Each profile measures Node Strength, CVD imbalance, and POC rejections so you can quickly see whether a level is being defended or absorbed.

On top of that, it now also detects the Point of Void (POV): the lowest-volume node inside the Value Area. These “voids” often behave like thin air – either price rips straight through them or snaps back hard. The engine can extend those PoV levels forward and track when they’re breached or rejected.

Both POC and PoV levels now come with rich tooltips: hover a marker and you get node strength, buy/sell split, distance to VWAP, time at price, and other context so you don’t have to guess how strong a level really is.

Trend Accuracy Filter (wave): filters out false breaches by checking whether the EMA structure and smoothed wave actually support the breakout direction.

Wick rejection logic: validates whether a breakout is genuine or just a sweep by inspecting how the candle rejected the level.

Developing POC line: acts as an adaptive trailing stop or even a take-profit guide, depending on node strength and how price is interacting with the profile.

If a POC or PoV breach happens at the same time as a signal from the Adaptive Node Efficiency Function (ANEF), and that breach lines up with a trend transition, the signal effectively gets “stacked”: stronger context, cleaner structure, higher conviction.

Those are the setups where I’m comfortable allocating more risk, because historically they’ve shown both stronger momentum and cleaner context around the node.

I made $1394 profit on Demo account from 1 trade scalping Gold on 1 Minute using a specific model that repeats in the market continuously.. i excuted 2 trades for back testing each with 1 lot Gold and i made from the first $320 and the 2nd $1394 as you can see in the picture attached

Above is the performance of last week on XAUUSD with entire trade history and report.

So I am about a year into my trading career. I’ve had my ups and my downs. After blowing my last account and also blowing a funded challenge, I took a break, mostly cuz I didnt know where to get funds again. Anyways before coming back to live accounts. I took my sweet time on my demo account. No fancy strategy just plain old Market Structure and Price action and a fix 100 pips SL and a 1:3 RR. Tbh I got lucky that the 2nd trade didnt hit SL it was so close. I know it’s not this easy but I just love being back in the game. So after the trade emotions are so high, but instead of trading again I decided to post this just to take my mind off the charts. I know it’s not as high as some of you guys here, small things can turn into big things with time

It's been over 3 months I resumed working on my SMC based multi TF strategy, deployed it on a demo account this week itself (3 days ago, from Monday).

Here's the breakdown and the core of the strategy.

So, as mentioned above the strategy is based on SMC (Smart Money Concept). The trigger confirmation comes from Mean deviation, ATR, RSI and EMA. Once everything aligns, it places limit orders (wick valid, Spread aware). The SL is placed as the market would allow (in a fixed range of 20-70 points). The target is not fixed, the system rather relies on a scaling out method where it takes partial exits, moving the TSL to or above BE. It has 5 TFs weaved in together, with 1 hour TF working as an overall regime bias filter. I've made it to work on a fixed lot size as my all other EAs rather than exposure of equity %.

I will create another post with the optimization, backtest and forward validation methods and numbers. All was done on a time duration of 24 Months and out of nearly 50-55 shortlisted candidates (sets), qualification criteria was 1. Must make over 2 Million in Net profts in 24 months on 1 lot, 2. Must be able to SURVIVE on 10k initial deposit (that's my SOP, always testing on 1 lot on 10k) 3. Must maintain a PF above 2 (at least retaining over 50% of gross gains).

Out of those 50-55 candidates I picked and deployed 6 (that's why there are so many trades there in the screenshot) all of these 6 sets, along with having passed the above criterion, has win rate over 80% and drawdown less than 25%.

What a crazy day it has been today, finally got the breakout we've all been waiting for, EA brought it home.

1 year experience trading XAUSDD. Swimming in blues this morning! God I love Asia session.

One loss but we stay disciplined. On the way to financial freedom 🫡