DislikedI can almost guarantee that the issue of losing an account due to a spike, be it real or fake, is the lot size chosen. You can't tell me that you blew your 100k account because you had a few .01 lots open. Even 100 of them. It'd take quite a spike to kill a 100K account with a one lot+random spike. Or maybe they bought a 10K account. So, for a moment, lets say, there is a bit of that heavy trading going on. Some traders want it now and and a lot of times, they get it now. We see "I passed in only 4 hour" posts. That time a spike didn't happen...or...Ignored
The folks passing in 4 hours also have the risk of losing in 4 hours. They are either a. clueless, b. get lucky one time, c. are purchasing challenge after challenge. I'm sure there are also some very good traders who have run the numbers of what they need to profit based on number of challenges purchased, etc....
Example, if you can pass 1 out of 3 and only earn 1.3% on the funded, you are at break even, anything over 1.3% is profitable.
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