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Focusing on single loss can be bad because it is difficult to accept loss and that may cause emotional tensions inside of you that will affect your future trading decisions. I would instead focus on aggregate characteristics of trading including those that related to loss (avg loss, max...

Look for brokers that offer CFDs on the instruments you are interested in, probably some of them will offer copy trading too and there should be fund managers who trade those instruments.

You get skewed results on demo account (biased towards better performance) due to less change of getting slippage and faster execution (common thing for market makers). Otherwise yes, there should be no difference especially if you practice swing or other kind of medium or long-term trading.

Basically Gold, the swings are quite pronounced there, also a couple of major drivers affect it (overall risk-aversion in the market, opportunity costs, central bank buying) which means there is less noise

IMO it's too late for news trading unless you aim to trade news that take substantial time to digest. But well even most NFP prints are priced in seconds and then market is back in equilibrium

I trade news on Hotforex using limit orders (it gives slight advantage is execution). Also spread widening is an issues but it's manageable if you trade with quality ECN broker

There is much less chance that random crypto forum will sustain a bank run since there is no a lender of last resort. This makes situation really fragile, any shock and you quickly get a huge snowball of withdrawals you can't stop.

Good choice I would also add to this list Hotforex or Tickmill they basically charge no spread on majors during London sessions, effect costs per 1 lot is just 4 pips which makes scalping strategies quite profitable.

There is no such thing as best broker many are roughle the same in terms of trading conditions. You can check Hotforex they are FCA regulated and spreads are relatively low like 0.0-0.2 pips on majors during busy sessions. Regarding execution you can't predict that depends on market and...

Does anybody knows if there are any arbitrage opportunities in FX available? Probably with some specific liquidity providers that offer retail access? Or spreads will prevent arb from making profit?

Yes it's best to focus on the process itself like generating idea that have alpha, backtesting, having fun from the fact that you managed to beat market (i.e. collective best guess about future outcomes). You will then notice that returns exceed your expectations

I really like MT5 because of its backtesting capabilities and quite simple Python API. You are now able to build quite sophisticated trading strategies and deploy them on this platform.

In my view due to immense liquidity FX returns are more random than stocks' or equity markets return also there is no access to order flow and other useful data as you trade with a dealer, hence there is just another constraint in terms of information sources which puts you at disadvantage.

There are quite narrow market "windows" when fundamental information makes it possible to trade markets profitably: when there is a strong market bias in many asset classes regarding some outcome (central bank decision, forthcoming CPI, NFP, other high-impact report) but the actual information...

Live trading with high leverage and small deposit is completely different experience. One loss and it's very easy to start to gamble as handling large losses is very difficult from the standpoint of emotional control.

In CFD trading you trade with a dealer which is a counterparty to your orders so yes their win is your loss and vice versa.

You won't get timeseries with tick-by-tick data which have irregular interarrival times. Measuring characteristics with irregular timeseries is much more sophisticated, there is much less literature on this matter.

I combine general risk-off and risk-on intraday analysis with support and resistance levels to achieve satisfactory results. The simpler the better, many algos follow trend and important levels you just need experience to understand where such levels may reside.

Support/resistance trading around release of market moving reports like NFP yields good results also there are many momentum opportunities in trending market however doing it manually puts you at great disadvantage.

Fundamentals also favour strong oil. No sign of US recession in sight, as latest NFP data shows so demand looks set to remain strong including on refinery products.