Counting Ticks
Signal, not noise

Trade with an edge. Count every tick.

Proven strategies, independent prop-firm and coach reviews, autotrading guidance and a markets podcast — built to help serious traders sharpen their skill and compound real value.

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Rules
Not hunches — every setup written down
Independent
No placement fees, no signals group
Full results
Drawdown and sample size, not just win rate
EUR / USD · M5
Trend continuation · long
1.0847
+0.62%
68%
Win rate (200 trades)
1 : 2.4
Avg risk / reward
-6.1%
Max drawdown
4
Prop firms scored on payouts & rules
65
Market stories curated
What we cover

Everything an edge needs, in one place

Most sites sell you one thing. Counting Ticks connects the whole workflow — from the strategy you trade to the firm that funds it and the tools that automate it.

Proven strategies

Setups documented with rules, market context and back-tested stats — not vague hunches. Know exactly when an edge applies.

Independent reviews

Honest scoring of prop firms and coaches on payouts, rules, support and results — so you fund and learn from the right people.

Bots & autotraders

Guidance on choosing, testing and running automated systems — plus the data services to feed them clean historic ticks.

Podcast & news

Weekly conversations with working traders and concise market briefings that respect your time and your attention.

Historic data

Where to source reliable tick and bar data, how to clean it, and how to import it for honest, lookahead-free back-tests.

Skill & growth

Articles and frameworks on risk, psychology and process — the unglamorous habits that actually compound your account.

How it works

Your path to better trading

A clear progression — from finding your edge to running it like a desk.

01

Find your edge

Browse documented strategies and pick setups that fit your market, timeframe and temperament.

02

Validate it

Back-test against clean historic data and pressure-test the rules before a cent is at risk.

03

Get funded

Use our independent reviews to choose a prop firm and coach whose rules suit how you trade.

04

Scale & automate

Systematise the edge with bots and autotraders, then refine with our weekly briefings.

Why traders stay

We score everything so you don't get sold to

Counting Ticks is publisher-independent. We aren't a prop firm, we don't run a signals group, and we don't take placement fees to rank a coach higher. Our only job is to tell you what actually works.

  • Strategies shipped with real back-test stats, not screenshots of one lucky week.
  • Firm and coach reviews scored on a fixed rubric, updated as rules change.
  • Practical automation guidance — pitfalls, slippage, overfitting — written by people who run bots.
  • Two calm, concise market briefings a week — no FOMO, no hype, no spam.
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Review scorecard
Example format
Payout splitup to 90%
Avg time to payout3.4 days
Rule transparencyA+
Counting Ticks score8.9/10
How we work

The standards we hold ourselves to

We are a young publication. Rather than borrow credibility we haven't earned, here is exactly what we promise — judge us on it.

Every strategy ships with its sample size, drawdown and worst losing streak — not just the win rate. If an edge failed a test, we say so and publish the null result.
Results reported in full
We are not a prop firm, we don't run a signals group, and we take no fee to rank anyone higher. Where a link earns us anything, it is labelled on the page.
Publisher-independent
Back-tests run on clean, lookahead-free data with realistic fills. We document the harness, so you can tell the difference between an edge and an artefact.
Testing you can audit