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Measurements from a prop-firm desk

What one trader actually measured — rollover bars, weekend gaps, lot sizes, swap in R — on real broker feeds, before risking a trade. No win-rate claims, no signals. Numbers you can check.

Gold Is 1 Oz at One Broker, 100 at AnotherGold is 1 oz per lot at one broker and 100 oz at another. The textbook lot-size formula would have been 100x wrong on one of my funded accounts.2026-08-28 A Range Is a Setup Type, Not a PauseA range isn't the pause between trends. It decides your exit model, stop and whether the trade exists at all -- measured from a plan-locked journal.2026-08-28 I Measured What a Weekend Actually CostsIn 21% of weekends the gap from Friday's close to the Sunday reopen beats a 1-ATR stop, and 56% of gaps go down. 4,305 weekends, 45 symbols, measured.2026-08-28 Two Charts Can Lie: What Separates InstrumentsSpread, swap, contract size, weekend gaps — and one palladium bar at 23:00 that stops out longs without price moving. Six weeks of instrument vetting.2026-08-28