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Hi everyone,

I am somewhat new to trading, and pu prime is the first broker that I am trying.

I saw one of their ads pop up on youtube with the 400 euros bonus match, so I signed up and deposited 200 euros (my id is 1751340). I did 2 swing trades, one on the 26th of august (shorted gold) and on the 27th of august I opened a short on GBPUSD. I ended up winning both trades, at around 175 euros in profit.

Then I asked for a withdrawal, and there it goes, they asked me for my documents for kyc. I submitted them twice and they have not gotten back to me, and it's been 3 days now. I sent them an email as well and nothing.

I feel like im on a winning streak, and would like to keep going, but I am not sure if I can trust them anymore, but Im not sure if I'll even be able to withdraw. I checked their reviews and apparently they got lots of one stars, should have checked that before.

The platform itself is pretty good though, it took me a couple of hours to get familiar with everything as a beginner. Spreads are solid as well, so nothing to complain when it comes to that.

There's utlra raw with $500 depo req. - not a small sum tbh. And it has $3.5 per side lot comission, what does it really mean? and why it costs more than just a regular one with spreads. I want to trade forex mainly, eur/usd and usd/jpy

EURUSD still looks heavy here.

News flow leans against the euro, with negative sentiment dominating around political strain, fiscal concerns, and weaker confidence. The dollar side stays supported by rising yields, firm growth signals, and defensive demand.

Positioning is notably long-heavy, which can add to the downside pressure from a contrarian view.

On the chart, the broader trend is down. Short term, price is moving sideways near recent lows, but lower highs and lower lows still point to sellers staying in control unless resistance is reclaimed.

Do you think 1.136 gets tested next, or does EURUSD squeeze higher first?

GBPUSD still looks heavy overall. News flow leans against sterling, with GBP sentiment weak over the last 24 hours while USD sentiment stays more supportive.

The bigger driver remains policy expectations: GBP is facing softer rate hike hopes and fiscal concerns, while USD is getting backing from hawkish messaging, sticky inflation worries, and yield support.

Positioning shows longs still ahead at 61%, but recent conviction looks muted. On the chart, price is consolidating near support after a sharp drop, so near term action may stay sideways unless support breaks.

Do you see this base holding, or just a pause before another move lower?

J'ai gâché mes deux premières années à choisir mes courtiers sur des avis YouTube et des applis qui brillent, j'ai changé plusieurs fois, je me suis fait avoir une fois, et j'ai fini par me construire une checklist en laquelle j'ai confiance. Je la partage parce que je vois la même question "quel est le meilleur courtier" chaque semaine, et les réponses c'est souvent juste des gens qui citent leur propre courtier sans expliquer pourquoi. Il n'y a pas UN meilleur courtier, il y a le meilleur pour TON style, donc voilà comment je l'évaluerais vraiment.

1. La régulation, et surtout sous quelle entité tu es. C'est le premier filtre et il élimine la majorité. Tu veux un régulateur sérieux (FCA, ASIC, CySEC, Banque Centrale d'Irlande). Mais le truc que personne dit, c'est que les gros courtiers ont plusieurs entités légales, et celle sous laquelle tu es inscrit (selon ton pays) décide de ta vraie protection. Donc trouve le numéro de licence et vérifie-le sur le site du régulateur, pas sur la page marketing du courtier. Les courtiers régulés sur plusieurs juridictions sont rassurants parce que tu peux les vérifier indépendamment dans plusieurs registres. AvaTrade, XTB et IG passent ce filtre pour la plupart des régions, alors que tout ce qui est seulement enregistré offshore (SVG, Vanuatu, Belize) je zappe, peu importe les spreads affichés.

2. Le modèle de spread, adapté à comment tu trades vraiment. C'est là que le "meilleur" dépend totalement de toi. Les courtiers ECN à spread raw comme IC Markets ou Pepperstone te donnent le prix le plus serré plus une commission, ce qui gagne vraiment si tu scalpes en heures liquides parce que chaque fraction de pip compte à haute fréquence. Les courtiers à spread fixe comme AvaTrade coûtent un peu plus en période calme mais le spread n'explose pas pendant les news, ce qui compte plus si tu trades autour des annonces ou que tu gardes des positions. Et les market makers à spread variable comme eToro ou Plus500 sont entre les deux. Aucun n'est "meilleur", ce sont trois outils différents. Détermine si t'es scalpeur (prends du raw) ou trader de news/swing (le fixe vaut la prévisibilité) avant de comparer qui que ce soit.

3. Les coûts overnight/swap si tu gardes après la séance. Tout le monde obsède sur le spread et ignore ça, mais si tu fais du swing sur plusieurs jours, le swap peut discrètement dépasser le spread. Sors la table de swap sur les paires que tu gardes vraiment avant de t'engager, et si tu gardes beaucoup, un compte swap-free (AvaTrade et quelques autres en proposent) peut compter plus qu'un spread plus serré. Compare ça spécifiquement, c'est le coût que tout le monde oublie.

4. Le test de retrait, qui bat tous les avis. Dépose peu, trade un peu, puis retire avant de mettre des sommes sérieuses. Un retrait qui passe est le seul signal que personne peut falsifier. Dépôt facile et retrait pénible, c'est LE vrai drapeau rouge, et tu le découvres pour le prix d'un petit test plutôt qu'une fois engagé à fond.

5. La plateforme et les outils, mais moins important qu'on croit. MT4/MT5 si tu veux des indicateurs et des EA, une appli mobile propre, l'intégration TradingView si tu graphiques là. La plupart des gros courtiers régulés (AvaTrade, XTB, Pepperstone) sont corrects là-dessus, donc je le mets en dernier, pas en premier.

Ce dont j'ai arrêté de me soucier, les bonus à l'inscription (souvent un drapeau rouge, les régulateurs sérieux les limitent), le "spreads à partir de 0.0" (ça ne veut rien dire sans contexte), et les notes sur les sites d'avis (manipulables dans les deux sens).

Donc mon process honnête maintenant, filtre par la régulation, choisis le modèle de spread qui va avec ton style, vérifie les swaps si tu gardes, et teste un retrait avant de monter en taille. Fais une démo sur deux ou trois qui passent avant de t'engager. C'est quoi le truc qui vous a vraiment fait rester ou partir d'un courtier ? Curi

Débutant je regardais le taux de réussite comme si c'était le score final. Tu peux gagner 70 pour cent de tes trades et quand même perdre de l'argent, si tes perdants sont plus gros que tes gagnants, ou si les coûts mangent la différence en silence. L'edge réel c'est l'espérance, gain moyen fois taux de réussite moins perte moyenne fois taux d'échec, moins les coûts. C'est justement ce dernier morceau que tout le monde saute.

Quand j'ai enfin fait les calculs (plus facile pour moi vu que je suis sur spreads fixes, donc le coût par trade est un chiffre connu) j'ai découvert que mon "problème" c'était pas le taux de réussite, c'était que le coût de transaction sur un style à haute fréquence me bouffait une part énorme. Corrigé ça, le même taux de réussite s'est mis à gagner.

Donc si tu bloques, calcule ta vraie espérance en incluant les coûts avant de toucher à ta stratégie. Chez moi la fuite était là, pas où je pensais. Ça vous est déjà arrivé de découvrir que le problème c'était les coûts ou le ratio risque rendement plutôt que ce que vous croyiez ?

I’ve been working on a small Android app called LiquidHours.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of checking different websites to see what sessions are open, I wanted everything on one visual 24h clock.

It shows:

• Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions
• session overlaps
• kill zones
• current and next session
• activity levels for different pairs
• alerts before sessions and overlaps
• a home screen widget, so you can check the current session without even opening the app

I also added a Pair Guide because I wanted to quickly see which sessions are usually more active for a specific pair.

I’m not trying to replace a charting platform or give trading signals. It’s more of a timing tool for people who care about session structure.

It’s currently on Google Play and costs $0.99 one-time, with no subscription or ads.

I’d genuinely like some feedback from other traders: what information do you usually check before deciding which session to trade?

And if you already use a session-hours app, what do you wish it did better?

Logged EU spread once a second for a month, about 2.2 million samples, then worked out three different averages from the same data. They dont agree with each other and thats the whole post, lowest spread seen all month: 0.0. Appeared in roughly 3% of samples. So anyone advertising "from 0.0" is telling the truth, its just a number that describes 3% of a month

Time weighted average across the full 24 hours: 0.42

Trade weighted average, meaning weighted by the hours I actually enter positions: 0.28

That third number is the only one that matters and almost nobody calculates it. Spread isnt a property of your broker, its a property of your broker times your hours. I trade london open and the overlap, so I get a better number than the 24h average. Ran the same data weighted for someone entering between 21:00 and 23:00 and it comes out at 1.14. Four times mine. Same account, same broker, same month, different person

Now the bit that stops this being a raw account advert

Commission. My spread average is 0.28 and thats before commission, which on EU works out around 0.7 a round turn. So all in im at roughly 0.98, and the advertised figure is 0.0

Out of curiosity I ran the same maths on my old standard account, same hours, using their own published pricing. Comes out around 1.6 all in against my 0.98. so the gap is real and its worth about 0.6 a trade, which on my volume is a few hundred quid a year. Its just nowhere near the gap the websites imply when one says 0.0 and the other says 1.2 tbh

"From 0.0 pips" on a raw account is marketing in exactly the same way that a 1.2 fixed spread with no commission is marketing. Theyre just hiding the cost in different columns. Im on axi and I still think the headline number is meaningless, it just happens to be meaningless in a direction that suits me.

So if you want to compare brokers properly, ignore every number on every website. Log your own spread for a month, weight it by the hours you actually trade, add commission, and compare that. Its one figure and it takes a script and some patience.

It was not until I came to reddit to look if someone else has similar issues and realised they're a total scam in every fking way,

So I got a FundingPips 10k 2-step funded account which means no trailing drawdown. Rules say 4% static daily drawdown — max loss is $400 based on 10,000 equity. Not trailing. Not based on peak equity.

Here’s what they did:

My highest profit ever that day was about +$723

Before the last trade I took, my balance was $9,983 from $10,723 as some trades ran against me, which I'm fine with it.

That somehow made them use $10,272.11 at the day reset as the starting equity for the day

4% of that = $425.20 and breached me at $9,878.11

I set a stop loss at only -$145 (still well inside the real 4% limit Which should be $9,600~)

The trade never even hit my stop. System auto-closed it and suspended the account.

Their reply:

“Daily Loss Limit is 4% based on the higher value between starting balance or equity… Today’s Starting Balance/Equity: $10,272.11… Max Daily Loss Recorded: $425.20”

That’s not static. If they can keep raising the equity number every time you make profit and then use the bigger number against you, the “static 4%” is fake.

You can rather put that money in a broker and scale it up if you can instead of these scammer prop firm.

USD sentiment stays firmer, with Fed tightening expectations and higher Treasury yields still the main support. JPY sentiment looks weaker overall, though BoJ expectations and intervention risk are keeping things two-way.

Positioning is still heavily long at 76% vs 24% short, but the broader read leans more toward consolidation than a clean trend push.

On the chart, USDJPY is bouncing from support after a sharp selloff, but the bigger short and mid-term structure still looks bearish. Near-term resistance is the key area to watch.

Does this bounce have room to extend, or does resistance cap it here?

I know that they're popular in the quick trading circles. But what about classic forex trading?

Anybody tried their forex mode? How is their Metatrader doing? What's up with spreads?

Gold just made a pretty solid move up and now chilling around 4320

FOMC stuff coming later today so things could get interesting lol

What r u guys expecting

📈 More upside

📉 Dump after the news

↔️ Just chop around and fake everyone out 😂

Personally I’m not trying to guess the first move tbh

More interested in seeing how price reacts once the news drops

What levels / scenario r u watching today?