Leaping trading journey 2025 to 2026

In 2025, I traded mostly using technical analysis that I learned by myself over many years. I am a self-learner, and thanks to the internet, I was able to learn many things from the information available online. The most expensive cost of my learning journey came from getting margin calls in my trades.

I realized that the reason I never achieved consistency in trading was because I kept jumping from one trading technique to another. I was almost 100% dependent on technical analysis and didn’t realize that at least 50% of success in trading comes from knowing where the market is heading in the long term — which is understanding fundamental analysis.

In December, a friend of mine introduced me to Bookmap, and thanks to it, my trading started to change. The way I see the market now is very different from how I saw it before. What I see today is the data that actually drives the market to become bullish or bearish.

For those who don’t know what Bookmap is, Bookmap is a tool that shows real-time orders in the market. It is often used as confirmation after doing technical analysis — for example, to check whether there are heavy orders at a price or zone where we plan to take a trade. This tool is commonly used by big traders to detect liquidity in the market so they can open very large positions, which often move the market.

Imagine a sailing ship using its sails to move, but at the end of the day, the ship will always follow the direction of the wind. The market works the same way. Intraday movements follow traders’ entries — which we can see through Bookmap data (technical analysis) — but fundamentals are the wind that leads the ship to its final destination, driven by news and what is happening in the world.

I have decided to dedicate myself to learning market behavior through fundamental analysis, and I will share my trading journal here. Of course, I will still talk about things I always share — what I do, my life journey, and my favorite contests on HIVE — but for the sake of the future, I aim to become a successful trader in 2026.

Let’s start with some cheat codes for gold, or XAUUSD. As stated, XAUUSD has an inverse correlation with the US dollar — when the dollar weakens, it usually pushes gold prices upward. Because of this, understanding news or fundamental factors that cause USD weakness can give gold traders a strong advantage.

Of course, trade at your own risk. Never forget important things like money management, knowing where to take profit, and where to cut losses — these are extremely important in trading.

Another major driver comes from market news, which you can get from ForexFactory.com. I’ll talk about this in more detail in my next post.

It’s already 12 a.m. here and I’m getting sleepy, so let’s continue tomorrow with more learning in the trading journey.

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