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I trade stocks and bonds and indices via CFD I feel they are more predictable than currency pairs.

Moreover reviews are heavily manipulated so I don't consider it as reliable metric of broker quality.

I think equilibrium in trading is when you have control over your profits and losses i.e. when you manage to avoid abrupt changes in equity and ensure its stable growth or controlled decline.

Looks like mostly intuitive trading but let's hope you succeed with your hunch. Do you understand what's your edge when you determine a trading entry?

Instant execution means broker takes market risk it's unlikely you can find it at reliable brokers which will withdraw your profit without any issues.

Yes this is due to lack of emotional pressure, basically this is a driver for evolution in trading since this is a real challenge.

Yeah, I find most convenient to trade at MT4 despite its old design its quite powerful platform with plenty of guides and education materials.

Yeah it is useful to think about investing in probability terms, i.e. consider expected reward and standard deviation of it, i.e. risk.

Yeah however it carries little benefit since trading conditions on live is different especially transaction costs.

Also use trailing stops if you want to increase your profit expectancy however correct use depends on volatility if it's high then small lot and wide stop loss is better

What spreads are you looking for? I can suggest Hotforex zero spread account, it offers quite tight often zero spreads on major pairs which is perfect for scalping.

Unfortunately it's very difficult to tell if your system don't have an edge or trades in just wrong market regime, or proper "market regime" was just some luck however comparisons with buy-and-hold may give some valuable insights.

Yes, outside of trading hours they just use OTC data, i.e. limit order book should be unavailable and this may be big shortcoming for traders who get clues from this data.

Yeah and it is crucial to avoid large losses because our mind tends to make decisions that attempt to get rid of pain as quickly as possible and it's often not the best way to recover because this often implies taking unreasonable risk

That's why profit should be also capped, i.e. when you reach your profit goal you have to stop trading and take stock of your gains to find the reasons of success.

Because when productivity falls, intense redistribution comes into play. Also access to trading becomes increasingly easy and cheap and aggressive marketing including crypto hype is difficult to resist.

If you are a newbie then you are in the learning phase of your trading journey, so what you can do is, try both on a demo account i.e. higher and lower leverage and analyse that how it is working try to do some analysis and then choose by yourself that what is best for you.

I think I value more that I stick to the plan than potential missed gains because deviating from trading plan turns on "emotional mode" when dumb trading decisions sneaks into your trading and it gets more and more out of control.

True. I discovered that I don't a lot about trading when I started to trade about live account, despite similarities in actions, same price sources it is extremely different especially from the standpoint of how you emotional response to profits and losses.

Only losing characteristics of series of trades (the more the better) matter due to law of large numbers