Choosing a challenge: Beginner mistakes
What matters most to you when comparing prop firm challenges? What common mistake should beginners avoid when dealing with this topic?
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Do you avoid entering trades when price has left a massive, unfilled liquidity void right behind your entry?
What is your protocol when price sweeps both the Asian High and Asian Low before picking a real direction?
How often do textbook Equal Highs act as strong resistance instead of getting swept for liquidity?
Why do so many traders get chopped up taking setups directly in the 50% equilibrium of a dealing range?
When marking a higher-timeframe Order Block, do you include the entire candle or only the open-to-close body?
Does three consecutive Fair Value Gaps in one direction signal unstoppable momentum or an imminent exhaustion reversal?
Do you use the 00:00 EST Midnight Open price as your primary daily filter for buying below and selling above?
Why does volume spike violently during the first 30 minutes of the London/New York overlap?
Do you anchor your daily pivot and range calculations to the New York 5:00 PM EST rollover?
Have you noticed that major liquidity sweeps almost always occur 15 to 30 minutes before a major session open?
Consolidation Breakouts: How many touches of a horizontal level make it too weak to hold anymore?
Wick Fill Entries: Do you enter on the 50% retracement of a massive institutional rejection wick?
HTF Bias Shifts: What single price action event forces you to immediately abandon your weekly directional bias?
SMT Divergence: When EUR/USD makes a lower low while GBP/USD makes a higher low, how aggressively do you execute?
Opening Range: Do you track the first 15-minute opening range of the New York Stock Exchange for index setups?
Trendline Liquidity: Do you deliberately target retail trendline breakouts as your main source of exit liquidity?
