Is it real to be profitable trading via phone?
Laptop died on me mid trip about 8 months ago and I figured I'd see how long gold trading survives on just a phone. Still haven't gone back.
For context, swing style, 2-3 setups a week, everything hangs on alerts at levels I mark in advance.
The app side turned out messier than the trading side. MT5 mobile is fine until you open anything above 1H, then the chart starts stuttering, plus alerts silently died on me twice. MT4 mobile gives you the same problems wrapped in a 2009 interface. TradingView is where I actually draw, but executing means hopping over to the broker app every time, which gets old fast on a phone.
Last couple months I've been sitting in my pu prime broker app, rendering is smoother than MT5 and alerts land consistently so far, the catch is it's their own platform, so everything I get used to there stays behind if I ever move brokers.
For holds of 6+ hours where alerts do the watching, I genuinely stopped missing the second monitor. Phone pings, I look at the level, decide, back to whatever I was doing.