I’ve seen it said (and I believe, though I can’t of course prove it) that some/many favourable reviews there are “shill reviews” planted by broker employees. To some extent it may be possible to form an impression, in specific instances, by seeing the poster’s post-count and range of other subjects on which they’ve posted.
In general, laudatory reviews in forums from first-time posters and those from members who have posted on only [I]one commercial[/I] subject should be looked at askance, in my opinion (but I’m a notorious skepchick).
You must be doing something right, then!
In general, I think it’s fair to say that “doing more of what works and less of what doesn’t work” is part of the learning process. (This necessitates having good written records not only of numerical parameters but of your reasons for opening/closing trades, and so on, to be able to analyse confidently what worked and what didn’t.)
That I can always get stopped out and re-enter (and sometimes do so).
I set my stop-loss to a level at which, if the price reaches it, my reason for entering the trade would no longer be valid and I wouldn’t want to be in it. It’s still (sometimes) possible for prices to continue, from there, to re-instate my original reason for opening it, and I don’t miss those profit opportunities by having stop-losses in place whenever I have an open position.
If I ever traded without stop-losses, I [I][U]know[/U][/I] that I’d eventually have a disaster, and it only takes one. It’s absolutely unthinkable for me. People letting others trade their funds have all kinds of stop-losses, automated alarm systems, and so on, permanently in place and pay people large salaries to ensure that they’re maintained and absolutely reliable, and I wouldn’t trade my own money without my home-made approximation of those methods, and they include a broker’s stop-loss (even though they’re not 100% reliable). As successful trader and now author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has so repeatedly pointed out, black swans are actually [I]much[/I] more common than people generally realise.
My perspective has always been that successful trading isn’t about profit maximisation: it’s about [I]risk management[/I].