Trading in a prop firm scenario is a whole different animal than trading your own personal account. You're not only trading with your own capital—you're working with someone else's money, their regulations, and their expectations. And pressure is involved. Every small choice feels bigger. Something as seemingly minuscule as the chart type you choose to use in MetaTrader 5 (MT5) has a way of affecting not only your plan, but your headspace.

It may seem unusual at first—charts are charts, right? A candlestick is a candlestick. But when you look a little deeper, you begin to see […]