u/Cute_Individual_7575

In 2021 ETH would move 15% in a day and I just thought that was how markets worked. Came to forex expecting the same energy. Spoiler: it's not the same energy.FX volatility is sneaky. It looks calm for hours and then a news release moves price 80 pips in 30 seconds. In crypto you see it coming - everything pumps together. In forex one currency pair can explode while the one next to it barely moves.Took me a while to stop trading forex like it was a slow crypto market. The correlation structure is completely different and news timing actually matters here in a way it mostly doesn't in crypto.Still learning. But I'll say this: cTrader's execution during news spikes is noticeably cleaner than what I experienced on a couple of crypto-native platforms. No weird requotes, trade receipts show exactly what happened. That part I did not expect.

My mean reversion cBot keeps closing trades way too early - it catches the move but exits before price fully reverts to the mean. I've tried adjusting the take profit and tweaking the ATR multiplier but nothing feels right. Is this a parameter problem or is my core logic just wrong? Running it on EURUSD H1 if that matters. What's worked for you?

For a long time I was that trader who downloaded every free indicator I could find, stacked them on a chart and wondered why nothing made sense. A few weeks ago I decided to actually build one myself using cTrader Algo. I had zero C# experience going in - just YouTube, the built-in Monaco editor and a lot of trial and error.

The indicator I ended up with is honestly pretty basic - a volume-weighted momentum signal with a simple threshold line. Nothing that would impress anyone on here. But the process of writing the logic myself, deciding what data to feed in and what to ignore, broke something open for me. I started questioning every indicator I had been using blindly before.

I still buy tools from the Store when someone has clearly solved a problem better than I could. But there is a real difference between using a tool and understanding one. If you have been relying on other people's indicators without knowing what they are actually calculating, even a small DIY project changes your perspective fast. The barrier to starting is lower than it looks.

I've been selling an indicator on cTrader Store for a few months and the conversion rate is frustrating me. The tool works well - I get decent reviews from people who actually try it - but the trial activations are low. Someone in another thread mentioned that product pages without video lose buyers before they even click the trial button, and looking at my listing I think that's exactly what's happening. I have zero video content, just a few screenshots and a text description.

I want to fix this but I have no idea where to start. Do buyers actually want a full walkthrough - installation, chart setup, example trades - or is a short 2-3 minute overview enough? Should I include a voiceover or just captions? I'm also wondering whether to record it inside cTrader directly or edit in some external footage to make it feel more polished.

There's a video contest running on cTrader Store right now with actual hardware prizes which gave me the push to finally do this, but even without that I think a video is long overdue. If anyone here has made a product video for a cBot or indicator, I'd genuinely appreciate knowing what you'd do differently the second time around.