How the result is decided
The full chain from the click to the row in the history.
Hold a complete picture of the mechanics: what is fixed, what is compared, what is credited.
What is fixed at the moment the button is pressed?
The full cycle of a trade is four steps, and not one of them depends on you being at the screen.
- 01You press the button: the entry price, the time and the amount are fixed
- 02The amount is debited from the balance
- 03At expiry the platform takes the current quote
- 04It compares that with the entry price and credits the payout or books the loss
There are no intermediate states in the result of a trade: no partial profit, no partial loss, no carrying over to the next period.
That rigidity is what makes the statistics honest: every trade gives one of two results, and across a run the real quality of your decisions is visible, with no blurred “it almost worked”.
One result does not judge a decision. Look at a run: 20–30 trades show a tendency, 3–5 show nothing.
Key takeaways
- There are no intermediate results: a trade is either in profit or at a loss.
- The result is credited automatically at expiry.
- Judge your work across a run of 20–30 trades.
What people do
Drawing conclusions about a strategy from three or five trades. On a sample that small, chance completely covers any edge.
What works
At the end of the day look not at the balance total but at how many trades had a recorded reason. That is your real measure of progress.
A practical example
Open the trade history on demo after a day's work. Look not at the plus or minus but at the sequence of results.
If six of ten trades were opened back to back within five minutes, that is already a diagnosis, whatever the financial total of the day.
Lesson 5 of 15 in “YOUR FIRST TRADE”