I personally focus on maintaining a disciplined mindset, keeping my emotions in check, and review my trading plan to make sure I'm on the right track. Additionally, I practice risk management techniques to handle my stress.
To do this, I and my friends normally check things like economic news, interest rates, and world events to understand how assets might perform in the future.
I think differences in pips across different brokers during times of high market volatility are not uncommon and don't necessarily indicate theft or wrongdoing on the broker's part.
I believe in this because risk management and position sizing are like advanced tools, but they won't work if you don't get the basics of trading. You need to understand how the market works and how people think about it before using these tools.