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Note: The mention of O levels and A levels throughout the post refers to the British patterned system of education. O levels is equivalent to the 9th and 10th grade and Alevels is equivalent to the 11th and 12th grade in the American High School System
Hi, I am a Pakistani guy currently on a gap year after doing A levels from one of the most prestigious schools in the country on a 100% scholarship. I did my O levels from a very less renowned school because of my financial condition but my grades allowed me admission into my A levels school. That is why most of my ECAS were done in the last 2 years. I am looking to apply to the following international universities with full scholarship/financial aid:
Majors Intended: Computer Science / Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
Universities: NYUAD (ED), Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Case Western Reserve University, Washington and Lee, Colby, Skidmore, CMU Qatar, Georgetown Qatar, NTU, HKUST, HKU, CityU
Academics

• Valedictorian in O levels with the grades 8A*s,2As and a GPA of 4.33
• Valedictorian in A levels with the grades 5A*s and a GPA of 4.33 from a Top 5 school in the country
• Took the subjects Math, Additional Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English and Accounting along with other compulsory subjects in O levels
• Took the subjects Math, Further Math, Physics, Economics and Accounting in A levels. The subject Further Math comprises mostly of university-level courses relating to Linear Algebra, Calculus, Mechanics and Statistics. My course load is counted as one of the heaviest one in the British education system

Test Scores

• SAT:1570 800 Math, 770 EBRW
• SAT II Math Level II: 790
• SAT II Physics: 800

Extra-Curriculars / Awards

• Head of the most reputed STEM club in the country, CORDS
• Won 4 highly prestigious National Stem Olympiads winning 10+ category awards. Led the team in one of them
• Performed my duties as the Computer Science and Cryptography category head at the National STEM Olympiad Scinnova organized by our club
• Was selected as the captain of the team that represented our school in the National Science Bowl
• Received Bronze honour in the International Youth Math Challenge
• Taught Math and Further Math to students after being selected as the Teacher's Assistant in Senior Year
• Did a 2-month Data Analyst Internship for a financial advisory firm. Analyzed the performance of a stock listed company over the last 5 years and prepared a report explaining the trends in the performances with regards to the micro and macro economic factors. My report was recognized as the top one amongst the reports of other interns
• Taught 50+ hours of Math, English and Urdu to the support staff of our school
• Currently doing a Front End Developer internship under the mentorship of a company
• Creating and Reviewing content for 3 months as the Algebra and Statistics Math Expert for the app of a San Fransisco based company named Photomath. The app has over 150 million downloads over all platforms
• An academic councilor at an app based startup named Nemphis
• Moderator in the largest online O/A Levels online community. Have written several articles helping students with Alevels, SATs, MOOCs and more. Councelled over 200 students privately
• Currently authoring a python library for analyzing WhatsApp text messages using statistical visualizations and word clouds
• Top 2% in the world on the competitive programming website codewars.com
• Programmed several automated forex trading expert advisors using the MQL4 language for a client
• Developed several python based web apps including Scrabble Solver, Cryptography Tool and more
• Did a 23 course + 6 project Data Scientist with Python track from Datacamp
• Did a 5 course SQL Fundamentals track from Datacamp
• Have done several other MOOC's relating to Python, Machine Learning, Data Science etc
• An active user on the data science platform Kaggle

I’ve been looking for a broker that has an API for index futures and ideally also futures options. I’m looking to use the API to build a customized view of my risk based on balances, positions, and market conditions.
Searching the algotrading sub I found many API-related posts, but then when I actually read them and their comments, I found they’re often lacking in real substance. It turns out many brokers or data services that have APIs don’t actually support index futures and options via the API, and instead they focus on equities, forex, or cypto. So here’s the list of what I’ve found so far. This isn’t a review of these brokers or APIs and note that I have a specific application in mind (index futures and futures options). Perhaps you’re looking for an API for equities, or you just want data and not a broker, in which case there may be a few options. Also, I’m based in the US so I didn’t really look for brokers or platforms outside the US.
If you have experience with these APIs, please chime in with your thoughts. Also, I may have missed some brokers or platforms. If I did or if you see anything that needs correction please let me know.
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Platform	Notes
ADM Investor Services	No API
Ally Invest	Does not support futures instruments
Alpaca	Only supports US Equities
Alpha Vantage	Does not support futures instruments
AMP	Broker with a huge number of platforms available including some with APIs
ApexFutures	No API
Arcade Trader	No API
AvaTrade	Does not support futures instruments
Backtrader	Not a data feed; otherwise looks cool but also looks like a one-man shop
Cannon Trading	Broker with a variety of platforms, some have API access such as TT
Centerpoint	No API
Charles Schwab	API does not support futures instruments
Cobra	No API
Daniels Trading	No API
Discount Trading	Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs
Edge Clear	Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs
Eroom	Now part of Dashprime. Offer a variety of APIs including CQG, TT, CBOE's Silexx, and others via FIX.
ETNA Trader	Only supports equities, options (including multi-legs), ETFs, Mutual Funds (Forex with cryptocurrencies coming soon)
ETrade	API seems robust but OAuth authorization needs to be refreshed via login once per 24 hours
Futures Online	No API
Gain Capital Futures	API available, based on .NET; unsure if they are open to retail clients
GFF Brokers	Broker with a large number of platforms including some with API access
High Ridge Futures	Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs
iBroker	API available; contact them for more info
IEX Cloud	Looks great but does not support futures instruments
Infinity Futures	JSON API available; contact them for more info
Interactive Brokers	Client Web API looks promising if clunky
Intrinio	Supports futures instruments but is expensive
Koyfin	No API
Lightspeed	C++ API available
marketstack	API for equities available. Does not support futures instruments.
Medved Trader	Windows app with a streaming API to various data sources and brokers. See comment below about API beta access.
NinjaTrader	Does not support futures options
Norgate Data	Not a broker; supports futures data for $270/year
Oanda	Forex only; API last updated in 2018
Optimus Futures	Broker with a large number of available platforms including some with API access
Phillip Capital	Broker with a large number of available platforms including some with API access
polygon.io	Expensive but looks slick; does not support futures instruments
Quandl	API looks solid; $49/monthly for personal use, does not allow distributing or sharing data; not a broker
Quantconnect	Does not expose raw data
Quantopian	Does not expose raw data
Quantower	Software that connects to multiple brokers and data feeds; API to their software via C# interface
Saxo Markets	Broker with extensively documented API
Stage 5 Trading	API available through Trading Technologies
Straits Financial	Broker with several platforms available including some with APIs such as CQG, R
Sweet Futures	Broker with a large number of available platforms including some with API access
TastyWorks	There's an unofficial Python API
TenQuant.io	Does not support futures instruments
ThinkorSwim	Does not support futures instruments via the API
Tiingo	Free account tier but does not support futures instruments
TradePro	Broker with a number of platforms available; unclear if any are available with API access
Tradier	Free developer API account for delayed data but does not support futures instruments
TradeStation	Nice looking API docs and supports futures instruments; requires opening an account and a minimum balance of $100k and there’s no trial available
TradeFutures4Less	Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs
TradingTechnologies	API looks robust; pricing starts at $700/month
TradingView	Does not expose data API
Tradovate Technologies	API exists, documentation unknown; need to talk to their account team
Wedbush Futures	Broker with several platforms offered, a few of which have API access
WEX	.NET/COM only; pricing not disclosed on website
Xignite	Pricing not disclosed on website but they do support futures instruments
Yahoo Finance API	Available through RapidAPI or via direct access; but it’s discontinued and unreliable
Zaner	Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs

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Wow, this list grew longer than I originally thought it would be. If you spot a mistake, please let me know and I’ll correct it.
Edit:
- added Lightspeed API - updated Dashprime to indicate some of the APIs available - added Medved Trader to table - added marketstack to table

Been learning forex trading now for about 2 years just reading and practising on demo, in the past 6 months however I've taken a more data driven approach and now I've just completed my first week of live trading (a small amount, nothing too big, just 200). the plan I guess is to reflect on the trades I've taken every week and use this medium as a way of peer reviewing the things I do.
Took 3 trades this week,
21/10/2020 - EURAUD and EURNZD sell
After identifying these pairs as sells, I viewed the potential sell move that could take place as a broader sell off of the euro rather than individual rising of the AUD or the NZD. For that reason, I decided to split my normal risk per trade amount (2.5%) in half and treat this as one euro sell trade. I closed my trades when they hit the previous days low, however as you can see, price continued moving down for a deeper sell off which is a lilbit depressing to see, knowing I could have made more if I had held, but meh, still bagged 3 times my risk so can't be too sad for the first trades of the first week.
Outcome (In RR):
EURAUD - 2.9
EURNZD -3.35
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23/10/2020 - AUDNZD Buy
I was late on my analysis on this trade because I woke up late, however I was still able to fill the limit order after price returned back to my buy zone. The trade looked good going in, however, the moves that I trade on tend to be higher momentum moves, and a few hours into the trade I could tell that there just wasnt any steam, so I moved the stop closer to the entry (but not breakeven, to give it room to breath), anyway, the market moved against me and took me out for 0.5R, saved 50% from the initial risk size so not bad.
Outcome (In RR)
-0.5
From demo trading this strategy, I know that sometimes the trades can run for a long time. I was curious to know how those of you that have long term swing moves manage the risk and lock in profits but also give the trades room to breath, I've been messing around with using donchians as a trailing stop method however Im eager to know of other methods.
p.s lemme know if Im breaking any rules by posting this here, new to reddit and all, also, if there is any interest in it, I can post my reasoning for entering these trades if requested.
p.p.s the screenshots of the trades were moderated out, but I've reposted them on my profile

Everyone heard of those forex gurus, i am using one which will give 50 pounds per referral. Just create an account at an official bank check reviews no fees for deposit and withdraw. So just deposit 250 eu/dollapound. Send him your account number after using his referral link to the website. You will just say you got there through me and ill pay you 50% of the 50 pounds so 25 pounds. The 250 you can take back and will receive that within an hour or so if you want to. 10% eazy. Let me know if you want to know more.

Hello, I live in England and this is a long post about how I got scammed, presenting my story and asking for advice. Much appreciated to all who go through all of it and send their ideas.
Also posted in AusLegal here: https://www.reddit.com/AusLegal/comments/iujgpq/uk_resident_got_scammed_to_send_money_to_an/
So I met a person online, and after chatting a bit she started showing me her gold trading profits. At first I didn't care that much, but she kept showing me profits and I said I wish I knew how to trade like that. She puts me in contact with this person, who is supposed to teach me how to trade.
This teacher tells me that I will start with simulated gold trading, and after some time I would move on to real trading. After a couple of days of trading she says I'm ready to trade for real, I say I need more time to do simulated trading. We do another day of simulated trading and she says I'm ready and I should start trading with real money.
Hindsight is 20/20, I can't believe what I was thinking. But I did do some checks on these people, like I aske them for pictures of themselves and I google image searched them. No results, not stock images, so I'm like, okay, a good sign.
I ask the first person to have a phone call to talk, we do. Okay, fair enough.
I ask the first person to send me the link to her design company that she said she owns, and she sends it over. Site is in Chinese but it's filled with a lot of images of homebuilding and some English sentences about home design. I ask her for more photos and it seems okay.
I do the same with the "teacher". Google image search, no stock images, no results. I google the platform she's asking me to open an account on, can't find anything about it saying it's a scam. The reviews for the iphone app are mostly 4-5 stars, with people in the reviews complaining that the previous version of the app was better.
So after all this, on the 11th of September I transfer the minimum needed to start investing, USD 10,000. I do this by using Transferwise, so I transfer the money in UK pounds to Transferwise (I live in the UK), the money is converted by Transferwise to USD and is send to the scammer's account to an Australian bank on Friday evening.
I sleep on it, and next day morning I start panicking, I think my instincts started kicking in, and I do some more research online and I found something similar, not exactly the same scam, but something similar where you meet somebody online, start talking, some people even met with these people, and then they say can teach you or know somebody that can teach you to trade (gold, bitcoin, forex, etc). At that point I really panicked and I realised I got scammed.
I try to reach Transferwise, but since it was Saturday, you could only reach them by email, couldn't even call them.
I call the bank in Australia, I tell them what happened, I was scammed and the scammers account is with them and I give them the details of the bank account and everything. So literally after a few hours of the money leaving Trasnferwise I contacted the receiving bank. They told me they will pass it on to the Financial Crime team and look into it.
I file a report with Action Fraud in the UK, I sent the report number to my bank, to the Australian bank and to Transferwise, but to Transferwise only on Monday when I can contact them again.
I search online for some advice, and everybody thinks the best solution is to keep contacting the receiving bank as they could block the account, or the transaction and it could bounce back to Transferwise so I keep doing that. The receiving bank in Australia tells me to contact Transferwise and have them raise a fraud report and to get in contact with the Australian bank.
After numerouse calls with Transferwise asking them to contact the receiving bank where I was told there's nothing they can do after the money has left Transferwise, I resort to calling the bank in Australia again. By this point I raised a cyber fraud report with the Australian police as well and sent the report number to the Australian bank.
I ask the bank in Australia what is there to do, if they will deny the transfer or do something so that money does not leave the Australian bank account, and they said the Financial Crime team is looking into it, but I could also ask Transferwise to raise a recall request and to contact them, but I say I already did but Transferwise keeps telling me they can't do that. The person from the Australian bank tells me it seems like Transferwise is giving me wrong information.
So I decide to call Transferwise again. I reach out to somebody, and they explain it still cannot be done. I'm almost begging them to do it, but they say it cannot be done. I start searching online of any events with TW and recall requests, and I found something where it said Transferwise doesn't want to do it because there's slim chance of getting the money back so they tell customers it cannot be done.
I call Transferwise again and push and complain that I think they're just telling me they can't do it just to get rid of me and the person I'm talking to this time says it can actually be done and she'll do that request for me, and she apologises for her colleagues telling me the wrong information previously. I call the Australian bank again to let them know that Transferwise said they will do the recall and if there is anything I can do. They tell me best thing is for me to keep talking to Transferwise, as the Australian bank has done everything it can.
Now, Transferwise shows you an estimation in days of how long a transfer will take. I did the transfer on Friday the 11th, and Transferwise estimated that the transfer would be completed by the 16th at 9:30 pm UK time. So doing all this I had some hope that something can happen. Mind you, I called the receiving bank a few hours after the transfer was done by Transferwise, and by their estimate had around 4-5 days until the transfer was complete.
I feel like I wasted precious time because Transferwise was not helpful at all, from the start when I raised the scam with them telling me there's nothing they can do, to the moment I had to make around 5 calls just to get them to do the recall request.
The 16th passes, the transfer appears complete in Transferwise and I get a message from the scammer that the funds have arrived and I can start trading. I didn't block them because I didn't want to freak them out and withdraw the money immediately it hits their account.
I posted my long story here to see if there is something I can do. I had hopes that the Australian bank would block the withdrawal and it would bounce back, or they would block the scammer's account and my money would not be withdrawn and the recall would go through. I also have some hopes that based on what the scammer said today, the money is still in the Australian bank account.
I feel like I acted pretty promptly after I realised I got scammed. Contacted the receiving bank, my bank, Transferwise and the authorities both in the UK and Australia.
I don't know what else I could have done to get a more positive outcome, but now I'm asking you, the people of this subreddit, is there anything else I can do? Is there a chance the money is still in the scammer's account and the Australian bank has blocked it?
Do you guys think Transferwise didn't treat me properly by dismissing me off the bat, and only helping me with the recall request after around 10 calls and pushing?
Any advice would be much appreciated. I know I was foolish, I should have trusted my instincts, but I feel I also took some verification steps that I knew from the internet and I contacted every instituion asap after I realised I was scammed, so a few hours after sending the money.
TL;DR I got scammed into sending money to an Australian bank account from the UK. What can I do now?

Disclaimer: None of this is financial advice. I have no idea what I'm doing. Please do your own research or you will certainly lose money. I'm not a statistician, data scientist, well-seasoned trader, or anything else that would qualify me to make statements such as the below with any weight behind them. Take them for the incoherent ramblings that they are.
TL;DR at the bottom for those not interested in the details.
This is a bit of a novel, sorry about that. It was mostly for getting my own thoughts organized, but if even one person reads the whole thing I will feel incredibly accomplished.

Background

For those of you not familiar, please see the various threads on this trading system here. I can't take credit for this system, all glory goes to ParallaxFX!
I wanted to see how effective this system was at H1 for a couple of reasons: 1) My current broker is TD Ameritrade - their Forex minimum is a mini lot, and I don't feel comfortable enough yet with the risk to trade mini lots on the higher timeframes(i.e. wider pip swings) that ParallaxFX's system uses, so I wanted to see if I could scale it down. 2) I'm fairly impatient, so I don't like to wait days and days with my capital tied up just to see if a trade is going to win or lose.
This does mean it requires more active attention since you are checking for setups once an hour instead of once a day or every 4-6 hours, but the upside is that you trade more often this way so you end up winning or losing faster and moving onto the next trade. Spread does eat more of the trade this way, but I'll cover this in my data below - it ends up not being a problem.
I looked at data from 6/11 to 7/3 on all pairs with a reasonable spread(pairs listed at bottom above the TL;DR). So this represents about 3-4 weeks' worth of trading. I used mark(mid) price charts. Spreadsheet link is below for anyone that's interested.

System Details

I'm pretty much using ParallaxFX's system textbook, but since there are a few options in his writeups, I'll include all the discretionary points here:

• I'm using the stop entry version - so I wait for the price to trade beyond the confirmation candle(in the direction of my trade) before entering. I don't have any data to support this decision, but I've always preferred this method over retracement-limit entries. Maybe I just like the feeling of a higher winrate even though there can be greater R:R using a limit entry. Variety is the spice of life.
• I put my stop loss right at the opposite edge of the confirmation candle. NOT at the edge of the 2-candle pattern that makes up the system. I'll get into this more below - not enough trades are saved to justify the wider stops. (Wider stop means less $ per pip won, assuming you still only risk 1%).
• All my profit/loss statistics are based on a 1% risk per trade. Because 1 is real easy to multiply.
• There are definitely some questionable trades in here, but I tried to make it as mechanical as possible for evaluation purposes. They do fit the definitions of the system, which is why I included them. You could probably improve the winrate by being more discretionary about your trades by looking at support/resistance or other techniques.
• I didn't use MBB much for either entering trades, or as support/resistance indicators. Again, trying to be pretty mechanical here just for data collection purposes. Plus, we all make bad trading decisions now and then, so let's call it even.
• As stated in the title, this is for H1 only. These results may very well not play out for other time frames - who knows, it may not even work on H1 starting this Monday. Forex is an unpredictable place.
• I collected data to show efficacy of taking profit at three different levels: -61.8%, -100% and -161.8% fib levels described in the system using the passive trade management method(set it and forget it). I'll have more below about moving up stops and taking off portions of a position.

And now for the fun. Results!

• Total Trades: 241
• Raw Winrates:
  • TP at -61.8%: 177 out of 241: 73.44%
  • TP at -100%: 156 out of 241: 64.73%
  • TP at -161.8%: 121 out of 241: 50.20%
• Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account):
  • TP at -61.8%: 5.22%
  • TP at -100%: 23.55%
  • TP at -161.8%: 29.14%

As you can see, a higher target ended up with higher profit despite a much lower winrate. This is partially just how things work out with profit targets in general, but there's an additional point to consider in our case: the spread. Since we are trading on a lower timeframe, there is less overall price movement and thus the spread takes up a much larger percentage of the trade than it would if you were trading H4, Daily or Weekly charts. You can see exactly how much it accounts for each trade in my spreadsheet if you're interested. TDA does not have the best spreads, so you could probably improve these results with another broker.
EDIT: I grabbed typical spreads from other brokers, and turns out while TDA is pretty competitive on majors, their minors/crosses are awful! IG beats them by 20-40% and Oanda beats them 30-60%! Using IG spreads for calculations increased profits considerably (another 5% on top) and Oanda spreads increased profits massively (another 15%!). Definitely going to be considering another broker than TDA for this strategy. Plus that'll allow me to trade micro-lots, so I can be more granular(and thus accurate) with my position sizing and compounding.

A Note on Spread

As you can see in the data, there were scenarios where the spread was 80% of the overall size of the trade(the size of the confirmation candle that you draw your fibonacci retracements over), which would obviously cut heavily into your profits.
Removing any trades where the spread is more than 50% of the trade width improved profits slightly without removing many trades, but this is almost certainly just coincidence on a small sample size. Going below 40% and even down to 30% starts to cut out a lot of trades for the less-common pairs, but doesn't actually change overall profits at all(~1% either way).
However, digging all the way down to 25% starts to really make some movement. Profit at the -161.8% TP level jumps up to 37.94% if you filter out anything with a spread that is more than 25% of the trade width! And this even keeps the sample size fairly large at 187 total trades.
You can get your profits all the way up to 48.43% at the -161.8% TP level if you filter all the way down to only trades where spread is less than 15% of the trade width, however your sample size gets much smaller at that point(108 trades) so I'm not sure I would trust that as being accurate in the long term.
Overall based on this data, I'm going to only take trades where the spread is less than 25% of the trade width. This may bias my trades more towards the majors, which would mean a lot more correlated trades as well(more on correlation below), but I think it is a reasonable precaution regardless.

Time of Day

Time of day had an interesting effect on trades. In a totally predictable fashion, a vast majority of setups occurred during the London and New York sessions: 5am-12pm Eastern. However, there was one outlier where there were many setups on the 11PM bar - and the winrate was about the same as the big hours in the London session. No idea why this hour in particular - anyone have any insight? That's smack in the middle of the Tokyo/Sydney overlap, not at the open or close of either.
On many of the hour slices I have a feeling I'm just dealing with small number statistics here since I didn't have a lot of data when breaking it down by individual hours. But here it is anyway - for all TP levels, these three things showed up(all in Eastern time):

• 7pm-4am: Fewer setups, but winrate high.
• 5am-6am: Lots of setups, but but winrate low.
• 12pm-3pm Medium number of setups, but winrate low.

I don't have any reason to think these timeframes would maintain this behavior over the long term. They're almost certainly meaningless. EDIT: When you de-dup highly correlated trades, the number of trades in these timeframes really drops, so from this data there is no reason to think these timeframes would be any different than any others in terms of winrate.
That being said, these time frames work out for me pretty well because I typically sleep 12am-7am Eastern time. So I automatically avoid the 5am-6am timeframe, and I'm awake for the majority of this system's setups.

Moving stops up to breakeven

This section goes against everything I know and have ever heard about trade management. Please someone find something wrong with my data. I'd love for someone to check my formulas, but I realize that's a pretty insane time commitment to ask of a bunch of strangers.
Anyways. What I found was that for these trades moving stops up...basically at all...actually reduced the overall profitability.
One of the data points I collected while charting was where the price retraced back to after hitting a certain milestone. i.e. once the price hit the -61.8% profit level, how far back did it retrace before hitting the -100% profit level(if at all)? And same goes for the -100% profit level - how far back did it retrace before hitting the -161.8% profit level(if at all)?
Well, some complex excel formulas later and here's what the results appear to be. Emphasis on appears because I honestly don't believe it. I must have done something wrong here, but I've gone over it a hundred times and I can't find anything out of place.

• Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%
  • Winrate: 46.4%
  • Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 5.36%
• Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%
  • Winrate: 65.97%
  • Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): -1.01% (yes, a net loss)

Now, you might think exactly what I did when looking at these numbers: oof, the spread killed us there right? Because even when you move your SL to 0%, you still end up paying the spread, so it's not truly "breakeven". And because we are trading on a lower timeframe, the spread can be pretty hefty right?
Well even when I manually modified the data so that the spread wasn't subtracted(i.e. "Breakeven" was truly +/- 0), things don't look a whole lot better, and still way worse than the passive trade management method of leaving your stops in place and letting it run. And that isn't even a realistic scenario because to adjust out the spread you'd have to move your stoploss inside the candle edge by at least the spread amount, meaning it would almost certainly be triggered more often than in the data I collected(which was purely based on the fib levels and mark price). Regardless, here are the numbers for that scenario:

• Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%
  • Winrate(breakeven doesn't count as a win): 46.4%
  • Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 17.97%
• Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%
  • Winrate(breakeven doesn't count as a win): 65.97%
  • Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 11.60%

From a literal standpoint, what I see behind this behavior is that 44 of the 69 breakeven trades(65%!) ended up being profitable to -100% after retracing deeply(but not to the original SL level), which greatly helped offset the purely losing trades better than the partial profit taken at -61.8%. And 36 went all the way back to -161.8% after a deep retracement without hitting the original SL. Anyone have any insight into this? Is this a problem with just not enough data? It seems like enough trades that a pattern should emerge, but again I'm no expert.
I also briefly looked at moving stops to other lower levels (78.6%, 61.8%, 50%, 38.2%, 23.6%), but that didn't improve things any. No hard data to share as I only took a quick look - and I still might have done something wrong overall.
The data is there to infer other strategies if anyone would like to dig in deep(more explanation on the spreadsheet below). I didn't do other combinations because the formulas got pretty complicated and I had already answered all the questions I was looking to answer.

2-Candle vs Confirmation Candle Stops

Another interesting point is that the original system has the SL level(for stop entries) just at the outer edge of the 2-candle pattern that makes up the system. Out of pure laziness, I set up my stops just based on the confirmation candle. And as it turns out, that is much a much better way to go about it.
Of the 60 purely losing trades, only 9 of them(15%) would go on to be winners with stops on the 2-candle formation. Certainly not enough to justify the extra loss and/or reduced profits you are exposing yourself to in every single other trade by setting a wider SL.
Oddly, in every single scenario where the wider stop did save the trade, it ended up going all the way to the -161.8% profit level. Still, not nearly worth it.

Correlated Trades

As I've said many times now, I'm really not qualified to be doing an analysis like this. This section in particular.
Looking at shared currency among the pairs traded, 74 of the trades are correlated. Quite a large group, but it makes sense considering the sort of moves we're looking for with this system.
This means you are opening yourself up to more risk if you were to trade on every signal since you are technically trading with the same underlying sentiment on each different pair. For example, GBP/USD and AUD/USD moving together almost certainly means it's due to USD moving both pairs, rather than GBP and AUD both moving the same size and direction coincidentally at the same time. So if you were to trade both signals, you would very likely win or lose both trades - meaning you are actually risking double what you'd normally risk(unless you halve both positions which can be a good option, and is discussed in ParallaxFX's posts and in various other places that go over pair correlation. I won't go into detail about those strategies here).
Interestingly though, 17 of those apparently correlated trades ended up with different wins/losses.
Also, looking only at trades that were correlated, winrate is 83%/70%/55% (for the three TP levels).
Does this give some indication that the same signal on multiple pairs means the signal is stronger? That there's some strong underlying sentiment driving it? Or is it just a matter of too small a sample size? The winrate isn't really much higher than the overall winrates, so that makes me doubt it is statistically significant.
One more funny tidbit: EUCAD netted the lowest overall winrate: 30% to even the -61.8% TP level on 10 trades. Seems like that is just a coincidence and not enough data, but dang that's a sucky losing streak.
EDIT: WOW I spent some time removing correlated trades manually and it changed the results quite a bit. Some thoughts on this below the results. These numbers also include the other "What I will trade" filters. I added a new worksheet to my data to show what I ended up picking.

• Total Trades: 75
• Raw Winrates:
  • TP at -61.8%: 84.00%
  • TP at -100%: 73.33%
  • TP at -161.8%: 60.00%
  • Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%: 53.33%
  • Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%: 53.33% (yes, oddly the exact same winrate. but different trades/profits)
• Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account):
  • TP at -61.8%: 18.13%
  • TP at -100%: 26.20%
  • TP at -161.8%: 34.01%
  • Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%: 19.20%
  • Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%: 17.29%

To do this, I removed correlated trades - typically by choosing those whose spread had a lower % of the trade width since that's objective and something I can see ahead of time. Obviously I'd like to only keep the winning trades, but I won't know that during the trade. This did reduce the overall sample size down to a level that I wouldn't otherwise consider to be big enough, but since the results are generally consistent with the overall dataset, I'm not going to worry about it too much.
I may also use more discretionary methods(support/resistance, quality of indecision/confirmation candles, news/sentiment for the pairs involved, etc) to filter out correlated trades in the future. But as I've said before I'm going for a pretty mechanical system.
This brought the 3 TP levels and even the breakeven strategies much closer together in overall profit. It muted the profit from the high R:R strategies and boosted the profit from the low R:R strategies. This tells me pair correlation was skewing my data quite a bit, so I'm glad I dug in a little deeper. Fortunately my original conclusion to use the -161.8 TP level with static stops is still the winner by a good bit, so it doesn't end up changing my actions.
There were a few times where MANY (6-8) correlated pairs all came up at the same time, so it'd be a crapshoot to an extent. And the data showed this - often then won/lost together, but sometimes they did not. As an arbitrary rule, the more correlations, the more trades I did end up taking(and thus risking). For example if there were 3-5 correlations, I might take the 2 "best" trades given my criteria above. 5+ setups and I might take the best 3 trades, even if the pairs are somewhat correlated.
I have no true data to back this up, but to illustrate using one example: if AUD/JPY, AUD/USD, CAD/JPY, USD/CAD all set up at the same time (as they did, along with a few other pairs on 6/19/20 9:00 AM), can you really say that those are all the same underlying movement? There are correlations between the different correlations, and trying to filter for that seems rough. Although maybe this is a known thing, I'm still pretty green to Forex - someone please enlighten me if so! I might have to look into this more statistically, but it would be pretty complex to analyze quantitatively, so for now I'm going with my gut and just taking a few of the "best" trades out of the handful.
Overall, I'm really glad I went further on this. The boosting of the B/E strategies makes me trust my calculations on those more since they aren't so far from the passive management like they were with the raw data, and that really had me wondering what I did wrong.

What I will trade

Putting all this together, I am going to attempt to trade the following(demo for a bit to make sure I have the hang of it, then for keeps):

• "System Details" I described above.
• TP at -161.8%
• Static SL at opposite side of confirmation candle - I won't move stops up to breakeven.
• Trade only 7am-11am and 4pm-11pm signals.
• Nothing where spread is more than 25% of trade width.

Looking at the data for these rules, test results are:

• Winrate: 58.19%
• Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 47.43%

I'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes!

Other Technical Details

• ATR is only slightly elevated in this date range from historical levels, so this should fairly closely represent reality even after the COVID volatility leaves the scalpers sad and alone.
• The sample size is much too small for anything really meaningful when you slice by hour or pair. I wasn't particularly looking to test a specific pair here - just the system overall as if you were going to trade it on all pairs with a reasonable spread.

Raw Data

Here's the spreadsheet for anyone that'd like it. (EDIT: Updated some of the setups from the last few days that have fully played out now. I also noticed a few typos, but nothing major that would change the overall outcomes. Regardless, I am currently reviewing every trade to ensure they are accurate.UPDATE: Finally all done. Very few corrections, no change to results.)
I have some explanatory notes below to help everyone else understand the spiraled labyrinth of a mind that put the spreadsheet together.

• I'm on the East Coast in the US, so the timestamps are Eastern time.
• Time stamp is from the confirmation candle, not the indecision candle. So 7am would mean the indecision candle was 6:00-6:59 and the confirmation candle is 7:00-7:59 and you'd put in your order at 8:00.
• I found a couple AM/PM typos as I was reviewing the data, so let me know if a trade doesn't make sense and I'll correct it.

Insanely detailed spreadsheet notes

For you real nerds out there. Here's an explanation of what each column means:

• Pair - duh
• Date/Time - Eastern time, confirmation candle as stated above
• Win to -61.8%? - whether the trade made it to the -61.8% TP level before it hit the original SL.
• Win to -100%? - whether the trade made it to the -100% TP level before it hit the original SL.
• Win to -161.8%? - whether the trade made it to the -161.8% TP level before it hit the original SL.
• Retracement level between -61.8% and -100% - how deep the price retraced after hitting -61.8%, but before hitting -100%. Be careful to look for the negative signs, it's easy to mix them up. Using the fib% levels defined in ParallaxFX's original thread. A plain hyphen "-" means it did not retrace, but rather went straight through -61.8% to -100%. Positive 100 means it hit the original SL.
• Retracement level between -100% and -161.8% - how deep the price retraced after hitting -100%, but before hitting -161.8%. Be careful to look for the negative signs, it's easy to mix them up. Using the fib% levels defined in ParallaxFX's original thread. A plain hyphen "-" means it did not retrace, but rather went straight through -100% to -161.8%. Positive 100 means it hit the original SL.
• Trade Width(Pips) - the size of the confirmation candle, and thus the "width" of your trade on which to determine position size, draw fib levels, etc.
• Loser saved by 2 candle stop? - for all losing trades, whether or not the 2-candle stop loss would have saved the trade and how far it ended up getting if so. "No" means it didn't save it, N/A means it wasn't a losing trade so it's not relevant.
• Spread(ThinkorSwim) - these are typical spreads for these pairs on ToS.
• Spread % of Width - How big is the spread compared to the trade width? Not used in any calculations, but interesting nonetheless.
• True Risk(Trade Width + Spread) - I set my SL at the opposite side of the confirmation candle knowing that I'm actually exposing myself to slightly more risk because of the spread(stop order = market order when submitted, so you pay the spread). So this tells you how many pips you are actually risking despite the Trade Width. I prefer this over setting the stop inside from the edge of the candle because some pairs have a wide spread that would mess with the system overall. But also many, many of these trades retraced very nearly to the edge of the confirmation candle, before ending up nicely profitable. If you keep your risk per trade at 1%, you're talking a true risk of, at most, 1.25% (in worst-case scenarios with the spread being 25% of the trade width as I am going with above).
• Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -61.8% - not going to go into huge detail, see the spreadsheet for calculations if you want. But, in a nutshell, if the trade was a win to 61.8%, it returns a positive # based on 61.8% of the trade width, minus the spread. Otherwise, it returns the True Risk as a negative. Both normalized to the 1% risk you started with.
• Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -100% - same as the last, but 100% of Trade Width.
• Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -161.8% - same as the last, but 161.8% of Trade Width.
• Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -100%, and move SL to breakeven at 61.8% - uses the retracement level columns to calculate profit/loss the same as the last few columns, but assuming you moved SL to 0% fib level after price hit -61.8%. Then full TP at 100%.
• Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread take off half of position at -61.8%, move SL to breakeven, TP 100% - uses the retracement level columns to calculate profit/loss the same as the last few columns, but assuming you took of half the position and moved SL to 0% fib level after price hit -61.8%. Then TP the remaining half at 100%.
• Overall Growth(-161.8% TP, 1% Risk) - pretty straightforward. Assuming you risked 1% on each trade, what the overall growth level would be chronologically(spreadsheet is sorted by date).

Pairs

1. AUD/CAD
2. AUD/CHF
3. AUD/JPY
4. AUD/NZD
5. AUD/USD
6. CAD/CHF
7. CAD/JPY
8. CHF/JPY
9. EUAUD
10. EUCAD
11. EUCHF
12. EUGBP
13. EUJPY
14. EUNZD
15. EUUSD
16. GBP/AUD
17. GBP/CAD
18. GBP/CHF
19. GBP/JPY
20. GBP/NZD
21. GBP/USD
22. NZD/CAD
23. NZD/CHF
24. NZD/JPY
25. NZD/USD
26. USD/CAD
27. USD/CHF
28. USD/JPY

TL;DR

Based on the reasonable rules I discovered in this backtest:

• Date range: 6/11-7/3
• Winrate: 58.19%
• Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 47.43%

Demo Trading Results

Since this post, I started demo trading this system assuming a 5k capital base and risking ~1% per trade. I've added the details to my spreadsheet for anyone interested. The results are pretty similar to the backtest when you consider real-life conditions/timing are a bit different. I missed some trades due to life(work, out of the house, etc), so that brought my total # of trades and thus overall profit down, but the winrate is nearly identical. I also closed a few trades early due to various reasons(not liking the price action, seeing support/resistance emerge, etc).
A quick note is that TD's paper trade system fills at the mid price for both stop and limit orders, so I had to subtract the spread from the raw trade values to get the true profit/loss amount for each trade.
I'm heading out of town next week, then after that it'll be time to take this sucker live!

• 86 Trades
  • Date range: 7/9-7/30
  • Winrate: 52.32%
  • Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 20.73%
    • Starting Balance: $5,000
    • Ending Balance: $6,036.51

Live Trading Results

I started live-trading this system on 8/10, and almost immediately had a string of losses much longer than either my backtest or demo period. Murphy's law huh? Anyways, that has me spooked so I'm doing a longer backtest before I start risking more real money. It's going to take me a little while due to the volume of trades, but I'll likely make a new post once I feel comfortable with that and start live trading again.

After a few...especially trying...interactions with unhappy ban recipients today, I thought it would be fun to share a little info on what moderators do to keep this place clean. :)
The forex industry is full of shady characters. Any industry sitting on the intersection of financial independence, work, and money, is bound to attract them. There are many reasons for this; the lower barrier to entry compared to other markets, the lack of public knowledge on the subject, and greedy human nature to name a few.
Moderating a subreddit dedicated to forex (or anything trading realted for that matter,) presents extra challenges beyond your regular sub. Marketers and scammers are super motivated, and MLM / referral marketing is extremely popular right now, which can turn everyday regular users into sources of spam.
How we currently tackle this problem involves technology (scripts, bots, and automod,) a mod review workflow, and some smart sleuthing when needed.
The mod team and our scripts aren't perfect though... but the few false positives we get are a very, very small fraction of all mod actions taken (~1%.) Unfortunately, that means some otherwise sincere members get handled roughly, and that can really suck.. I wish there was a better way, but the alternative is this place becomes a wild west and starts looking like your gmail spam folder.
That said, here's my personal stats for JUST the last 24 hours:

• Bans: 14 [edit: 16 now before day's end, two more responding to a 'where can I learn how to trade' post.]
• All mod actions (including bans, post and comment removal, etc..): 63
• Ban appeals: 2

And I'm just one of the mods. . .
So what scammer and marketing trends are we seeing lately?

• Content marketing - Infographics with instagram handles watermarked in them, or a blog-like post with a embedded links to their own site.
• Personal/direct selling - trying to move the conversation out of public view, usually by taking things to DM, or promoting a 3rd party chatroom where the rules here no longer apply.
• Shills - Fake accounts used to boost the credit of another user, or service. It's no coincidence that a user asking about 'ULRA PRO SIGNALZ' will quickly have 5+ replies by low karma, new users, saying how great the service is. [edit: here's an example I just caught..]
• Fake P/L Porn - We see this quite often. It's easy to fake MT4 account statements and MT4 Mobile screenshots, and new users can't tell the difference so these posts will get a lot of undeserved attention. When people ask how OP made such mad cash, a sales pitch is usually coming right up.

Honestly, it can be really frustrating at times.. luckily the scripts we have in place make weeding out ~80% of these jokers quite easy and quick. Heck, we had one scammer who blew through 12+ accounts over the last few days trying to scam people but none of their posts ever saw the light of day thanks to the spam triggers I've written.
What motivates the mod team to keep this place clean? That's an easy answer: The majority of users here are new to trading. Making sure they aren't food for the wolves is important.
But even with all the measures we take, some bad actors still get through.
So here's where you can help: Use the report button! Anytime you see something that you think fits the descriptions listed above, or violates our sidebar rules, just report it. Even if you're not 100% sure, don't be afraid to use the report tool.. The worst thing that can happen is the mod team reviews and approves it, but the best outcome is you directly help keep this place clean and humming! :)
And the mod team is always looking to improve where it can: I've already talked about what we do to scrub away bad actors, but one place we could do better is education. The plan is to rewrite a good portion of the wiki to include the following sections:

• Spotting scams and scammers
• How to properly compare brokers and regulatory bodies
• The real reason why your old high school friend wants you to sign up to IML, and 10 ways to politely tell him to pound sand
• No, that hot instagram model won't sleep with you if you buy her online course
• Why all signal services are trash and can die in a fire

(Titles above are a work in progress ;P)
Are you a good writer and want to help out with this? Think you can write up a killer wiki article on spotting scam artists? Message the mods and let us know!
Finally, a reminder, we are still interested in taking on more moderators and will be revisiting that very shortly. If you'd be interested, read through this post and reply accordingly: https://www.reddit.com/Forex/comments/h7ok6k/seeking_more_mods_recruitment_thread/

Hello, I live in England and this is a long post about how I got scammed, presenting my story and asking for advice. Much appreciated to all who go through all of it and send their ideas.
Also posted in personalfinance here: https://www.reddit.com/personalfinance/comments/iuja16/uk_resident_got_scammed_what_i_did_and_what_to_do/
So I met a person online, and after chatting a bit she started showing me her gold trading profits. At first I didn't care that much, but she kept showing me profits and I said I wish I knew how to trade like that. She puts me in contact with this person, who is supposed to teach me how to trade.
This teacher tells me that I will start with simulated gold trading, and after some time I would move on to real trading. After a couple of days of trading she says I'm ready to trade for real, I say I need more time to do simulated trading. We do another day of simulated trading and she says I'm ready and I should start trading with real money.
Hindsight is 20/20, I can't believe what I was thinking. But I did do some checks on these people, like I aske them for pictures of themselves and I google image searched them. No results, not stock images, so I'm like, okay, a good sign.
I ask the first person to have a phone call to talk, we do. Okay, fair enough.
I ask the first person to send me the link to her design company that she said she owns, and she sends it over. Site is in Chinese but it's filled with a lot of images of homebuilding and some English sentences about home design. I ask her for more photos and it seems okay.
I do the same with the "teacher". Google image search, no stock images, no results. I google the platform she's asking me to open an account on, can't find anything about it saying it's a scam. The reviews for the iphone app are mostly 4-5 stars, with people in the reviews complaining that the previous version of the app was better.
So after all this, on the 11th of September I transfer the minimum needed to start investing, USD 10,000. I do this by using Transferwise, so I transfer the money in UK pounds to Transferwise (I live in the UK), the money is converted by Transferwise to USD and is send to the scammer's account to an Australian bank on Friday evening.
I sleep on it, and next day morning I start panicking, I think my instincts started kicking in, and I do some more research online and I found something similar, not exactly the same scam, but something similar where you meet somebody online, start talking, some people even met with these people, and then they say can teach you or know somebody that can teach you to trade (gold, bitcoin, forex, etc). At that point I really panicked and I realised I got scammed.
I try to reach Transferwise, but since it was Saturday, you could only reach them by email, couldn't even call them.
I call the bank in Australia, I tell them what happened, I was scammed and the scammers account is with them and I give them the details of the bank account and everything. So literally after a few hours of the money leaving Trasnferwise I contacted the receiving bank. They told me they will pass it on to the Financial Crime team and look into it.
I file a report with Action Fraud in the UK, I sent the report number to my bank, to the Australian bank and to Transferwise, but to Transferwise only on Monday when I can contact them again.
I search online for some advice, and everybody thinks the best solution is to keep contacting the receiving bank as they could block the account, or the transaction and it could bounce back to Transferwise so I keep doing that. The receiving bank in Australia tells me to contact Transferwise and have them raise a fraud report and to get in contact with the Australian bank.
After numerouse calls with Transferwise asking them to contact the receiving bank where I was told there's nothing they can do after the money has left Transferwise, I resort to calling the bank in Australia again. By this point I raised a cyber fraud report with the Australian police as well and sent the report number to the Australian bank.
I ask the bank in Australia what is there to do, if they will deny the transfer or do something so that money does not leave the Australian bank account, and they said the Financial Crime team is looking into it, but I could also ask Transferwise to raise a recall request and to contact them, but I say I already did but Transferwise keeps telling me they can't do that. The person from the Australian bank tells me it seems like Transferwise is giving me wrong information.
So I decide to call Transferwise again. I reach out to somebody, and they explain it still cannot be done. I'm almost begging them to do it, but they say it cannot be done. I start searching online of any events with TW and recall requests, and I found something where it said Transferwise doesn't want to do it because there's slim chance of getting the money back so they tell customers it cannot be done.
I call Transferwise again and push and complain that I think they're just telling me they can't do it just to get rid of me and the person I'm talking to this time says it can actually be done and she'll do that request for me, and she apologises for her colleagues telling me the wrong information previously. I call the Australian bank again to let them know that Transferwise said they will do the recall and if there is anything I can do. They tell me best thing is for me to keep talking to Transferwise, as the Australian bank has done everything it can.
Now, Transferwise shows you an estimation in days of how long a transfer will take. I did the transfer on Friday the 11th, and Transferwise estimated that the transfer would be completed by the 16th at 9:30 pm UK time. So doing all this I had some hope that something can happen. Mind you, I called the receiving bank a few hours after the transfer was done by Transferwise, and by their estimate had around 4-5 days until the transfer was complete.
I feel like I wasted precious time because Transferwise was not helpful at all, from the start when I raised the scam with them telling me there's nothing they can do, to the moment I had to make around 5 calls just to get them to do the recall request.
The 16th passes, the transfer appears complete in Transferwise and I get a message from the scammer that the funds have arrived and I can start trading. I didn't block them because I didn't want to freak them out and withdraw the money immediately it hits their account.
I posted my long story here to see if there is something I can do. I had hopes that the Australian bank would block the withdrawal and it would bounce back, or they would block the scammer's account and my money would not be withdrawn and the recall would go through. I also have some hopes that based on what the scammer said today, the money is still in the Australian bank account.
I feel like I acted pretty promptly after I realised I got scammed. Contacted the receiving bank, my bank, Transferwise and the authorities both in the UK and Australia.
I don't know what else I could have done to get a more positive outcome, but now I'm asking you, the people of this subreddit, is there anything else I can do? Is there a chance the money is still in the scammer's account and the Australian bank has blocked it?
Do you guys think Transferwise didn't treat me properly by dismissing me off the bat, and only helping me with the recall request after around 10 calls and pushing?
Any advice would be much appreciated. I know I was foolish, I should have trusted my instincts, but I feel I also took some verification steps that I knew from the internet and I contacted every instituion asap after I realised I was scammed, so a few hours after sending the money.
TL;DR I got scammed into sending money to an Australian bank account from the UK. What can I do now?

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Create your team’s rituals and traditions. Celebrate the birthdays and unique occasions of your distant staff. Why doesn’t every team member ask for a brief video that you wish to edit later and send to your partner celebrating?
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Improve camaraderie with true private communication through investments at least once a year in corporate retreats where your distant team can meet in reality.
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Find out more here about motivating your team.
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TIP 4 – Select your team with wisely
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Hiring individuals with the correct distance to work is your halfway to achievement. It’s all about everything else. You can also influence your entire team with a lazy or unprofessional distant worker. This is why certain precautions are essential during the recruitment process.
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First and foremost, nobody claims you have to employ the individual from the beginning. Test your skills and abilities for a number of months by employing them part-time and giving them the opportunity to work long term when you’re sure they’re a nice addition to your staff.
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Don’t be stingy with salaries. Just because your employee is working remotely doesn’t mean that they aren’t doing more than your typical office worker does. In most cases, remote workers are actually doing more, so their salaries have to reflect this.
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Make sure your fresh remote staff can function from home. Do you have a good working environment where you can concentrate without distractions? Otherwise, it may be better to propose either paying for co-working space or buying equipment to build that room at home for them.
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Take into consideration that your staff can all come from distinct nations and cultures. Learn how to talk obviously and broadly convey your message. Ask your team in their message to use easy phrases and a neutral tone. Maintain a calendar of all global holidays affecting and planning your team members.
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Make sure fresh staff are quick to retire. Create a guide with all the primary information about your job and the instruments you use. Ask your team members to share their finest advice on remote working. Recall the faster the better they adjust.
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Managing distance teams can be challenging, but actually you can create a skilled, loyal, hard-working team with a few simple rules to assist your company to succeed.

Hello, I live in England and this is a long post about how I got scammed, presenting my story and asking for advice. Much appreciated to all who go through all of it and send their ideas.
Also posted in personalfinance here: https://www.reddit.com/personalfinance/comments/iuja16/uk_resident_got_scammed_what_i_did_and_what_to_do/
So I met a person online, and after chatting a bit she started showing me her gold trading profits. At first I didn't care that much, but she kept showing me profits and I said I wish I knew how to trade like that. She puts me in contact with this person, who is supposed to teach me how to trade.
This teacher tells me that I will start with simulated gold trading, and after some time I would move on to real trading. After a couple of days of trading she says I'm ready to trade for real, I say I need more time to do simulated trading. We do another day of simulated trading and she says I'm ready and I should start trading with real money.
Hindsight is 20/20, I can't believe what I was thinking. But I did do some checks on these people, like I asked them for pictures of themselves and I google image searched them. No results, not stock images, so I'm like, okay, a good sign.
I ask the first person to have a phone call to talk, we do. Okay, fair enough.
I ask the first person to send me the link to her design company that she said she owns, and she sends it over. Site is in Chinese but it's filled with a lot of images of homebuilding and some English sentences about home design. I ask her for more photos and it seems okay.
I do the same with the "teacher". Google image search, no stock images, no results. I google the platform she's asking me to open an account on, can't find anything about it saying it's a scam. The reviews for the iphone app are mostly 4-5 stars, with people in the reviews complaining that the previous version of the app was better.
So after all this, on the 11th of September I transfer the minimum needed to start investing, USD 10,000. I do this by using Transferwise, so I transfer the money in UK pounds to Transferwise (I live in the UK), the money is converted by Transferwise to USD and is send to the scammer's account to an Australian bank on Friday evening.
I sleep on it, and next day morning I start panicking, I think my instincts started kicking in, and I do some more research online and I found something similar, not exactly the same scam, but something similar where you meet somebody online, start talking, some people even met with these people, and then they say can teach you or know somebody that can teach you to trade (gold, bitcoin, forex, etc). At that point I really panicked and I realised I got scammed.
I try to reach Transferwise, but since it was Saturday, you could only reach them by email, couldn't even call them.
I call the bank in Australia, I tell them what happened, I was scammed and the scammers account is with them and I give them the details of the bank account and everything. So literally after a few hours of the money leaving Trasnferwise I contacted the receiving bank. They told me they will pass it on to the Financial Crime team and look into it.
I file a report with Action Fraud in the UK, I sent the report number to my bank, to the Australian bank and to Transferwise, but to Transferwise only on Monday when I can contact them again.
I search online for some advice, and everybody thinks the best solution is to keep contacting the receiving bank as they could block the account, or the transaction and it could bounce back to Transferwise so I keep doing that. The receiving bank in Australia tells me to contact Transferwise and have them raise a fraud report and to get in contact with the Australian bank.
After numerouse calls with Transferwise asking them to contact the receiving bank where I was told there's nothing they can do after the money has left Transferwise, I resort to calling the bank in Australia again. By this point I raised a cyber fraud report with the Australian police as well and sent the report number to the Australian bank.
I ask the bank in Australia what is there to do, if they will deny the transfer or do something so that money does not leave the Australian bank account, and they said the Financial Crime team is looking into it, but I could also ask Transferwise to raise a recall request and to contact them, but I say I already did but Transferwise keeps telling me they can't do that. The person from the Australian bank tells me it seems like Transferwise is giving me wrong information.
So I decide to call Transferwise again. I reach out to somebody, and they explain it still cannot be done. I'm almost begging them to do it, but they say it cannot be done. I start searching online of any events with TW and recall requests, and I found something where it said Transferwise doesn't want to do it because there's slim chance of getting the money back so they tell customers it cannot be done.
I call Transferwise again and push and complain that I think they're just telling me they can't do it just to get rid of me and the person I'm talking to this time says it can actually be done and she'll do that request for me, and she apologises for her colleagues telling me the wrong information previously. I call the Australian bank again to let them know that Transferwise said they will do the recall and if there is anything I can do. They tell me best thing is for me to keep talking to Transferwise, as the Australian bank has done everything it can.
Now, Transferwise shows you an estimation in days of how long a transfer will take. I did the transfer on Friday the 11th, and Transferwise estimated that the transfer would be completed by the 16th at 9:30 pm UK time. So doing all this I had some hope that something can happen. Mind you, I called the receiving bank a few hours after the transfer was done by Transferwise, and by their estimate had around 4-5 days until the transfer was complete.
I feel like I wasted precious time because Transferwise was not helpful at all, from the start when I raised the scam with them telling me there's nothing they can do, to the moment I had to make around 5 calls just to get them to do the recall request.
The 16th passes, the transfer appears complete in Transferwise and I get a message from the scammer that the funds have arrived and I can start trading. I didn't block them because I didn't want to freak them out and withdraw the money immediately it hits their account.
I posted my long story here to see if there is something I can do. I had hopes that the Australian bank would block the withdrawal and it would bounce back, or they would block the scammer's account and my money would not be withdrawn and the recall would go through. I also have some hopes that based on what the scammer said today, the money is still in the Australian bank account.
I feel like I acted pretty promptly after I realised I got scammed. Contacted the receiving bank, my bank, Transferwise and the authorities both in the UK and Australia.
I don't know what else I could have done to get a more positive outcome, but now I'm asking you, the people of this subreddit, is there anything else I can do? Is there a chance the money is still in the scammer's account and the Australian bank has blocked it?
Do you guys think Transferwise didn't treat me properly by dismissing me off the bat, and only helping me with the recall request after around 10 calls and pushing?
Any advice would be much appreciated. I know I was foolish, I should have trusted my instincts, but I feel I also took some verification steps that I knew from the internet and I contacted every instituion asap after I realised I was scammed, so a few hours after sending the money.
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TL;DR I got scammed into sending money to an Australian bank account from the UK. What can I do now?

Note: The mention of O levels and A levels throughout the post refers to the British patterned system of education. O levels is equivalent to the 9th and 10th grade and Alevels is equivalent to the 11th and 12th grade in the American High School System
Hi, I am a Pakistani guy currently on a gap year after doing A levels from one of the most prestigious schools in the country on a 100% scholarship. I did my O levels from a very less renowned school because of my financial condition but my grades allowed me admission into my A levels school. That is why most of my ECAS were done in the last 2 years. I am looking to apply to the following international universities with full scholarship/financial aid:
Majors Intended: Computer Science / Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
Universities: NYUAD (ED), Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Case Western Reserve University, Washington and Lee, Colby, Skidmore, CMU Qatar, Georgetown Qatar, NTU, HKUST, HKU, CityU
Academics

• Valedictorian in O levels with the grades 8A*s,2As and a GPA of 4.33
• Valedictorian in A levels with the grades 5A*s and a GPA of 4.33 from a Top 5 school in the country
• Took the subjects Math, Additional Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English and Accounting along with other compulsory subjects in O levels
• Took the subjects Math, Further Math, Physics, Economics and Accounting in A levels. The subject Further Math comprises mostly of university-level courses relating to Linear Algebra, Calculus, Mechanics and Statistics. My course load is counted as one of the heaviest one in the British education system

Test Scores

• SAT:1470 800 Math, 670 EBRW (Retaking the SAT in September with an aim of around 1550)
• SAT II Math Level II: 790
• SAT II Physics: 800

Extra-Curriculars / Awards

• Head of the most reputed STEM club in the country, CORDS
• Won 4 highly prestigious National Stem Olympiads winning 10+ category awards. Led the team in one of them
• Performed my duties as the Computer Science and Cryptography category head at the National STEM Olympiad Scinnova organized by our club
• Was selected as the captain of the team that represented our school in the National Science Bowl
• Received Bronze honour in the International Youth Math Challenge
• Taught Math and Further Math to students after being selected as the Teacher's Assistant in Senior Year
• Did a 2-month Data Analyst Internship for a financial advisory firm. Analyzed the performance of a stock listed company over the last 5 years and prepared a report explaining the trends in the performances with regards to the micro and macro economic factors. My report was recognized as the top one amongst the reports of other interns
• Taught 50+ hours of Math, English and Urdu to the support staff of our school
• Currently doing a Front End Developer internship under the mentorship of a company
• Creating and Reviewing content for 2 months as the Algebra and Statistics Math Expert for the app of a San Fransisco based company named Photomath. The app has over 150 million downloads over all platforms
• Currently authoring a python library for analyzing WhatsApp text messages using statistical visualizations and word clouds
• Top 2% in the world on the competitive programming website codewars.com
• Programmed several automated forex trading expert advisors using the MQL4 language for a client
• Developed several python based web apps including Scrabble Solver, Cryptography Tool and more
• Did a 23 course + 6 project Data Scientist with Python track from Datacamp
• Did a 5 course SQL Fundamentals track from Datacamp
• Have done several other MOOC's relating to Python, Machine Learning, Data Science etc
• An active user on the data science platform Kaggle

Universal Bypass

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Changelog

403e242

• Added bypasses for: terbit21.asia, shtms.co, fc-lc.com, dl.ccbluex.net

32fce08

• Added bypasses for: pixiv.net (jumpout), rekonise.com, jwfinancas.club
• Improved psarips.com bypass

13.14.0

• Added psarips.com bypass
• Updated translations

4efad54

• Added bypasses for: oracle.com (login to download java 8), sub4unlock.com, forex1pro.com, genlink.cc, acortaz.com, p3dm.ru, hulblog.com, fex.net, ay.link, belajar-bersama2.me
• Improved bypasses for: pahe.ph, realsht.mobi

13.13.1

• Updated translations
• Updated the Ace editor (used for editing custom bypasses)
• Improved bypasses for: cshort.org, shorte.st, pahe.ph
• Fixed some websites detecting Universal Bypass

fb4d832

• Added bypasses for: favpng.com, multiup.eu, online-fix.me, linegee.net, blog.hulblog.com, adshrink.it, movies21.asia, terbit21.stream, apkpsp.xyz, mirrorace.org, maukredit.online
• Added tracker bypasses for: r20.rs6.net, forocoches.com
• Improved bypasses for: instant-hack.to, pahe.in, binbox.io, shorte.st

13.13.0

• Added magersari.web.id bypass
• Updated translations

970fd0c

• Added bypasses for: thesimsresource.com (fake loading), apkmodo.com, zedge.net, akwam.org, multifilemirror.com, post.techtutors.site, welcome.indihome.co.id, an1.com, layarkacaxxi.org, miuiku.com, techrfour.com, fcc.lc, manualsbooks.com
• Added tracker bypasses for: click.linksynergy.com, track.flexlinkspro.com, shareasale.com, onsafelink.com, tudofinanceiro.club, apkhubs.com, ph.samapkstore.com
• Add wpapk template bypass (used on apkprofree.com and potentially others)
• Improved bypasses for: shorte.st, spacetica.com, duit.cc, pahe.in, pucuktranslation.pw
• Fixed the info box being squished on some sites

13.12.4

• Updated translations

13.12.3

• Updated translations

e683d2e

• Improved cheatsquad.gg bypass

13.12.2

• Updated translations
• Removed Linkvertise legal battle info

d3af8c5

• Added bypasses for: pluslive.live, palseet.live, onlinecorp.me, mylink1.biz, neonime.moe, pirateproxy.wtf, google-playss.sdetectives.id, ph.apps2app.com, www1.swatchseries.to, fouadmods.com, wwwfotografgotlin.blogspot.com, acortalo.org
• Improved bypasses for: customercareal.com, spacetica.com, proxoexploits.com
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected (thanks to Uranite)

13.12.1

• Made some changes to crowd bypass to appease Mozilla
• Updated translations

4eb5057

• Added bypasses for: pahe.ph, terbit21.cool, daunshorte.kertashitam.com
• Improved shirosafe.web.id bypass

13.12.0

• Added linkspy.cc bypass
• Updated translations

13.11.3

• Removed "Do you want to be navigated instantly or in x seconds?" hint on the "You're almost at your destination page" in some contexts to avoid confusion
• Updated translations

268aa5a

• Added bypasses for: chaosity.cheatsquad.gg, tautan.pro, gilakerja.com, 5play.ru, itsbx.com, instant-hack.to
• Improved bypasses for: linkbucks, drivenime.com

13.11.2

• Updated translations
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

2f8dfbd

• Added uploadking.net bypass
• Improved pahe.in bypass
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.11.1

• Updated translations

5630ad1

• Added bypasses for: analytics.twitter.com tracker, mediafile.cloud, mlwbd.pw, terbit21.top
• Updated IP logger patterns
• Improved blackmod.net bypass
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.11.0

• Added an information about the currently ongoing legal battle with Linkvertise to the options
• Re-added uninstall questionnaire
• Updated translations

ecf59ee

• Added bypasses for: moon7.xyz, ua.techweft.com, jackofnine.site, expertvn.com
• Improved bypasses for: AdLinkFly Template, midiavip.com, shre.su
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.10.3

• Improved linkvertise.net bypass

13.10.2

• Removed auto-updating for Firefox again. Read more about this circus...

fc95789

• Added bypasses for: urapk.com, made-by.org
• Improved shorten.sh bypass
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.10.1

• Updated translations
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

4e02ff7

• Added bypasses for: behealth-id.xyz, dikatekno.com, safe.anirocksite.com, my-code4you.blogspot.com
• Improved tr.link bypass
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.10

• Added Goether54's Zulu translation
• Updated copyright and links
• Updated translations

c3fc857

• Added bypasses for: freeupload.info, subdowns.com, katfile.com, jk-chat.com, novicearea.com, busyfinance.site
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.9

• Added an info box on file hosters that can't be bypassed
• Improved general preflight bypasses
• Updated translations

cac4de7

• Added bypasses for: dl.indexmovie.biz, apkily.com, pro-bangla.com

13.8.5

• Updated translations

13.8.4

• Fixed instant navigation causing some bypasses to break on Firefox
• Updated translations

8d38fd9

• Added bypasses for: koenime.com, bakacan.id, worldofmods.com, histotechs.com, linkconfig.com, yourtechnology.online, suanoticia.online, safe.onbatch.my.id, jkoding.xyz, crxne.de, shre.su, easylinkref.com
• Improved general preflight bypass

13.8.3

• Universal Bypass now says "You are being navigated to https://..." with "Take me to destinations after 0 seconds." set, so you know something is happening if the destination is slow.
• Improved beermoneyforum.com bypass
• Fixed universal-bypass.org/options not redirecting to options if an option is meant to be highlighted
• Fixed options page breaking if an unknown option is meant to be highlighted
• Removed max. values from options with number inputs as they sometimes need to be surpassed and weren't enforced anyway
• Updated translations

825167d

• Added bypasses for: flare.icu, beermoneyforum.com, iloadit11.info, k2nblog.com, sorewa.net, akwam.net, jemerik.com, lefturl.com, safelinku.icu
• Improved general preflight bypass
• Improved bypasses for: 4snip.pw, pahe.in, oploverz.in, postku.org
• Improved various subtle bypasses so they count towards the bypassed sites counter
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.8.2

• Improved linkvertise.net preflight bypass
• Updated translations

aedb2fe

• Improved general preflight bypass
• Improved linkvertise.net bypass

13.8.1

• Improved the auto-updating system to include tracker bypass definitions
• Updated translations

ea9921b

• Added bypasses for: hienzo.com, curseforge.com, animebatch.id, do.customercareal.com
• Improved bypasses for: remiyu.me, ceksite.id, postku.org, zt-protect.com
• Fixed info box not showing on some mobile devices
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected

13.8

• Added extramovies.casa preflight bypass
• Compressed extension icons
• Fixed referer values being stored in the wrong encoding sometimes
• Updated translations

2a0b327

• Added bypasses for: tricxbd.com, akltu.com, forexlap.com, sekilastekno.com
• Improved general preflight bypass

13.7

• Universal Bypass will now change its extension tab titles to reflect how many seconds are left on internal timers, i.e. if you've set "Take me to destinations after 5 seconds." the "You're almost at your destination." page will be called "(5) You're almost at your destination." and count down with the timer on the page.
• Improved the way the version number is shown in the options to make it more apparent that bypass definitions are separate from the extension version
• Fixed "Instantly take me to destinations of trackers" not working in Chromium-based browsers
• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected and improved the Linkvertise preflight bypass to allow for auto-updating of anti-detection rules
• Updated translations

7dbafa1

• Added bypasses for: 4shared.com (download without login), cloudgallery.net, curimovie.com
• Improved bypasses for: duit.cc, cshort.org, boomx5.com, oxy.cloud, icutlink.com

13.6.2

• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected
• Updated translations

c993457

• Added theartistunion.com bypass
• Improved bypasses for: Teknosafe template, adfoc.us, cshort.org
• Removed toneden.io bypass as they have added backend validation

13.6.1

• Fixed cases of Universal Bypass being detected
• Updated translations

f612f04

• Added bypasses for: biozkop21.my.id, ads.bdcraft.net
• Improved bypasses for: uploadfree.info, fstore.biz
• Fixed Soralink Wordpress Plugin bypass interfering with certain download sites

13.6

• Added functionality for more subtle bypasses (that never even open the "You're almost at your destination" page) to count towards the bypassed sites counter
• Added haaretz.co.il paywall bypass
• Added Jaiganesh Kumaran' Tamil translation
• Updated translations
• Improved the placements of the "Contributors" and "Privacy Policy" links in the options
• Improved label for the "Bypass trackers using Apimon.de" option
• Improved firstrun message
• Fixed "Close tab containing the crowd-sourced destination after x seconds of visiting it" option saving values below 3 seconds

35e1206

• Added bypasses for: Steam link filter, otewe.net, nofil.net, postku.org, fstore.biz, likn.xyz, gubukbisnis.me, vexfile.com, creditcable.info, catcut.net, sloomp.space, imgdrive.net, onnime.net
• Added general bypass for filmesmega.net, torrentmegafilmes.tv, and potentially more
• Improved bypasses for: Soralink Wordpress Plugin, uploadfree.info, boomx5.com, download.id
• Removed haaretz.co.il paywall bypass because it broke the site

13.5.1

• Fixed destinations never being reached using "Take me to destinations after 0 seconds" in Firefox for Android
• Fixed Universal Bypass not working in in older versions of Chromium-based browsers

13.5

• Added shiroyasha.me bypass
• Improved bypasses for: zflas.com, 365myoffice.com
• Fixed general preflight bypass not properly redirecting to magnet links
• Fixed Universal Bypass breaking websites using the Soralink Wordpress Plugin if crowd bypass is disabled

7d7a91b

• Added haipedia.com bypass
• Improved bypasses for: Soralink Wordpress Plugin, filehorse.com, oploverz.in, neonime.org, cshort.org, zflas.com

13.4

• Improved the way the options page and background script talk to each other to keep their states in sync., and to ensure that only one options page is open at a time.
• The "You're almost at your destination" page will now be blank if you're meant to be navigated instantly.
• Fixed some sites detecting Universal Bypass after general preflight bypass
• Added shrink-service.it bypass
• Updated translations

4e8c2d0

• Added bypasses for: l.forek.info, linkpoi.cc, 365myoffice.com, gsmusbdrivers.com, zt-protect.com, cararoot.id
• Improved bypasses for: adlinkfly template, shirosafe.web.id, healthinsider.online, pahe.in

13.3

• Universal Bypass' built-in updating system for the injection script now also includes rules for preflight bypasses. Collectively, this is now called "bypass definitions."
• Fixed "Close tab containing the crowd-sourced destination after x seconds of visiting it" still not always working on Firefox, and this solution doesn't even need the "Access browser tabs" permission anymore.
• Changed default values of options with seconds and removed hint that "0" means instant because I think that's obvious.
• Updated translations

7adc74e

• Added bypasses for: healthinsider.online, myotto.online, disiniaja.site
• Improved bypasses for: nexusmods.com, shirosafe.web.id

13.2.1

• Fixed "Close tab containing the crowd-sourced destination after x seconds of visiting it" not working on Firefox by adding the "Access browser tabs" permission. On Chromium-based browsers, this permission isn't needed, and Universal Bypass on Firefox doesn't do anything else with it.
• Fixed instant navigation causing Google's "clever" code to break some bypasses
• Updated translations

13.2

• Added a timer to the "You're almost at your destination" page if the destination would detect Universal Bypass if you would navigate too quickly.
• Improved shon.xyz bypass
• Updated translations

5cb0e9f

• Added filesupload.org bypass
• Improved katmoviehd.nl bypass

13.1

• Removed the option to disable the info box. The info box was added to prevent getting reports for websites which are bypassed by crowd bypass, but we still do. I believe people disable the option — maybe because "Show informational messages on some sites" sounds scary, maybe because they never encountered one — and then when they encounter a crowd-bypassed site, they have no indication of that, and report it. As always, I'd like to get some feedback on this, especially from other perspectives.
• Added akku's Malayalam translation
• Fixed "Thanks for installing Universal Bypass" message being white on a blue background in dark mode
• Updated translations

df11aaf

• Added techoow.com bypass

13.0.1

• Improved sportif.id bypass
• Removed boomx5.com preflight bypass because it broke the site
• Updated translations

9166983

• Added bypasses for: sfirmware.com, ydfile.com, sportif.id
• Improved bypasses for: shirosafe.web.id, oke.io, emulator.games, neonime.org, drivenime.com

13.0 — The Design Update

• Universal Bypass now uses UIkit for its design
• Improved bypasses for: ouo.io, cpmlink.net
• Moved content script referer logic into the injection script so it can be auto-updated
• Fixed options for timer durations not saving the seconds when disabled
• Fixed auto-closing of the crowd-sourced destination tab not always working
• Updated translations

53e92b2

• Added bypasses for: go.geghost.com, shorte-st.online, solvetube.site, neonime.org, apunkasoftware.net, disingkat.in, dl.filedownload.club, terbit21.show, koreaku.co, mmsubs.com, bakadame.com
• Improved bypasses for: Soralink Wordpress Plugin, shirosafe.web.id, spaste.com, oploverz.in, uiz.io, boomx5.com

12.9.2

• Improved mymastah.xyz bypass
• Updated translations

20c7c99

• Added bypasses for: uploadfree.info, bomurl.com, mboost.me, mymastah.xyz
• Improved bypasses for: shirosafe.web.id, flarefiles.com, multiup.org

12.9.1

• Updated "up-to-date" message to clarify that it is only for the injection script
• Fixed option to auto-close the tab containing the crowd-sourced destination not saving the seconds without disabling and re-enabling the option
• Improved bluemediafiles.com bypass
• Updated translations

3816a8b

• Added bypasses for: sammobile.com, soft8ware.com, flarefiles.com

12.9

• Added getfile.mobi bypass
• Updated translations

1dfbe81

• Improved bypasses for: safelink template, boo.tw, uiz.io (uiz.app), shirosafe.web.id

12.8

• Added "Cancel" button for internal timers, such as automatically opening a destination.
• Added link to contributors next to copyright below options
• Added Samuel Hawran Samel's Slovak translation
• Added bypasses for: cemiw.net, bursadrakor.com
• Improved soralink bypass
• Changed "Support Universal Bypass" to "Contribute to Universal Bypass"
• Updated translations

9ecab92

• Added DineshSolanki's brpaper.com bypass
• Added ikancupang's bypasses for: boo.tw, thetecnostar.com, kora4top.com
• Improved bypasses for: Soralink Wordpress Plugin, boomx5.com

12.7

• Added an option to auto-close the tab containing the crowd-sourced destination once it has been opened
• Added ikancupang's goodssh.com bypass
• Updated example custom bypass
• Updated translations

3db78cc

• Custom bypass developers: You can now use "safelyAssign(...)" instead of "location.href = ..." or "location.assign(...)" which will assert that the URL is good before actually assigning, returns false if not. Note that you should only use this for instant redirects, for everything else "safelyNavigate(...)" is still recommended.
• Added majidzhacker.com bypass to replace tinyurl.majidzhacker.com bypass
• Added bypasses for: shirosafe.web.id, shon.xyz, cinema21.tv, bebasdownloadfilm.com, midvip.xyz, midiavip.com, 1ink.cc, cuturl.cc, ipeenk.id, lkc21.net, bioskopgo.com, apkmos.com, mi-globe.com, intifada1453.team, terbit21.host, 01nonton.com, citgratis.com, tekloggers.com, ahref.co, invistaiptv.com, subsvip.com, dl.sharemydrive.xyz
• Improved bypasses for: mi-globe.com, cpmlink.net, boomx5.com
• Huge thanks to ikancupang for his contributions in this version!

12.6

• Added hfiz.site bypass
• Improved giga74.com bypass

5d58882

• Added tinyurl.majidzhacker.com bypass
• Improved bypasses for: modebaca.com, liveshootv.com, shrink.world

12.5

• Added JoxJox30's Macedonian translation
• Added bypasses for: shrink.world, liveshootv.com
• Improved modebaca.com bypass

bc958a7

• Universal Bypass now provides version information to universal-bypass.org so it can automatically redirect to the correct changelog and adjust behaviour of the install button
• Improved bypasses for: nexusmods.com, shrinkads.com (modebaca.com)
• Removed shirosafe.my.id bypass as it is broken

12.4.1

• Improved movienear.me bypass
• Fixed Czech and Vietnamese translations missing important information

f77e5c1

• Improved nexusmods.com bypass

12.4

• Added droidtamvan.me bypass
• Improved zonangopi.com bypass
• Fixed links to options with inputs breaking the options page
• Updated translations

08b001d

• Added bypasses for: zonangopi.com, bladesalvador.com, keisekai.fun

12.3

• Added bypasses for: go.giga74.com, safelinkgratis.info
• Updated translations

d83acea

• Added bypasses for: blog.infolanjutan.xyz, terbit21.online
• Improved bypasses for: ad4msan.com, wizardsubs.com

12.2

• Added "UNIVERSAL_BYPASS_INTERNAL_VERSION" constant for use in the injection script and custom bypasses to determine extension capabilities in future bypasses

d183ae7

• Added bypasses for: akashirohige.blogspot.com, dl.blackmod.net

12.1

• Added bypasses for: sehuruf.com, safelink.grandmovie21.com
• Improved bypasses for: ad4msan.com, oppa.kdramaindo.tv, safelink.hargawebsite.com, mkvking.com, pahe.in
• Fixed ad blockers blocking crowd bypass queries on some sites
• Updated translations

2793696

• Added bypasses for: apkpsp.com, multiup.org, ad4msan.com, oppa.kdramaindo.tv, mkvking.com, media-blue.blogspot.com
• Improved bypasses for: safelink template, channelmyanmar.org, shirosafe.my.id, uiz.io, sfile.mobi, mispuani.xyz, pahe.in

12.0.1

• Improved channelmyanmar.org bypass
• Fixed development mode detection on Firefox

fee1ebe

• Added channelmyanmar.org bypass

12.0 — The Updated Update

• Implemented auto-updating of the injection script because of Google's insane new release delay. This does mean that the Privacy Policy has changed because now a request to Github is sent every hour. Aside from that, this is actually incredibly awesome for the future of Universal Bypass, as you can now take advantage of the latest bypasses without having to wait for the next release, even on Firefox!
• Added wizardsubs.com bypass
• Improved bypasses for: adf.ly (gsuimp.net), linkvertise.net, pahe.in
• Improved general bypasses
• Updated translations

11.19.1

• Improved linkvertise.net bypass (Thanks to ikancupang!)
• Updated Indonesian translation

11.19

• Added bypasses for: nexusmods.com, stayonline.pro, bdzone.xyz, xlink.cc, 1shortlink.com, acortalo.live, infotekno.net
• Improved bypasses for: linkvertise.net, link.tl (lnk.news)
• Updated translations

11.18

• Added bypasses for: macdownload.org, boomx5.com, portableapps.com, tik.lat, lin-ks.net, business.ominfoupdate.com
• Improved bypasses for: lewat.club, tr.link, pahe.in, folderenius.com, seputarinfomenarik.com, linkvertise.net
• Improved general preflight bypasses
• Updated translations

11.17.2

• Improved donia2link.net bypass (Thanks to ikancupang!)
• Fixed Universal Bypass breaking some websites on Firefox

11.17.1

• Fixed Soralink Wordpress Plugin bypass not working on websites using older versions of the Soralink Wordpress Plugin
• Fixed lewat.club and tr.link bypasses not working because of the performance improvement from the last release

11.17

• Added donia2link.net bypass
• Updated Soralink Wordpress Plugin bypass to work with their latest version
• Improved performance on bypassed sites
• Updated translations

11.16

• Added bypasses for: ciustekno.me, filepuma.com, filehorse.com, getwallpapers.com
• Improved bypasses for: AdLinkFly Template, bc.vc, mirrorace.com
• Fixed general bypasses redirecting to partial URLs
• Fixed preflight bypasses redirecting to invalid URLs

11.15

• Added squidssh.com bypass
• Re-added adfoc.us bypass because the website was not dead after all
• Improved bypasses for: adf.ly, ouo.io, Soralink Wordpress Plugin, realsht.mobi
• Improved general bypasses
• Updated translations

11.14

• Added bypasses for: hidereferrer.com, informations-library.blogspot.com, dxdrive.com, felanovia.com, redir.animenine.net, download.id, ad4msan.win, sopasti.com, out.x-forex.site, nimebatch.net, filekita.me, mispuani.xyz
• Improved bc.vc bypass to work on their new bcvc.live domain
• Improved general bypasses
• Changed the description slightly: Instead of "Universal Bypass automatically skips" it now "circumvents"
• Moved the "Support Universal Bypass" link behind the bypassed sites counter
• Updated translations

11.13

• Added bypasses for: newsdecorate.com, terbit21.club, zflas.com
• Improved bypasses for: viid.su, sub2unlock.com/net, won.pe, losstor.com, onepieceex, bluemediafiles.com, telolet.in
• Fixed a bug with a general bypass from the previous release
• Removed bypasses for dead sites

11.12

• Added bypasses for: managalist.org, hightech.web.id, newhealthblog.com, cariskuy.com, sukakesehattan.com, unlockapk.com
• Improved linkduit.net bypass
• Added some more general bypasses based on patterns I see way too often. This has potential to meddle in sites where it shouldn't, so please get in touch if you have any issues.

11.11.1

• Improved bypasses for: Safelink Wordpress Template, mirrorace.com
• Updated translations

11.11

• Added the version and a link to the changelog in the options
• Added bypasses for: gsu.st, oxy.st
• Improved bypasses for: mirrorace.com, toneden.io
• Fixed the "referer" header not being presented in some cases

11.10

• Added bypasses for: pastikan.me, gixen.com, sairman.com
• Improved bypasses for: linkpoi.in, mirrorace.com, realsht.mobi, safelink.hargawebsite.com, yametesenpai.xyz
• Updated translations
• Fixed quotes in some translations causing the extension to break
• Removed bypasses for dead sites: kisechan.web.id, arubedo.blogspot.com, permadihermawan.site

11.9

• Added bypasses for: realsht.mobi, mirrorace.com, linkpoi.in, racaty.com, apamanfaat.id, agdd5br.com
• Re-added sfile.mobi bypass
• Improved bypasses for: Safelink Wordpress Template, Linkvertise, pucuktranslation.pw
• Updated translations
• Removed YetiShare bypass because it broke unrelated sites and I couldn't verify that the website is still active

11.8

• Added bypasses for: lnk2.cc, bitcoinfaucet.fun, movienear.me, transmediakreatif.com, go.indonesia-publisher.id, pasardownload.com, safelink.hargawebsite.com, travellinginfos.com, bungmiyana.me, tuser.id, kangpost.com, omahsafe.blogspot.com, vius.info, ceksite.id
• Improved bypasses for: Safelink Wordpress Template, ouo.io, lewat.club, lompat.in
• Updated translations

11.7

• Added bypasses for: ally.sh, elil.cc, shortconnect.com, adobedownload.org
• Improved bypasses for: leechall.com, shorte.st
• Fixed info box growing infinitely on some sites
• Fixed Universal Bypass' icon staying grayed-out after it is re-enabled
• Updated translations

11.6

• Added a counter for how many times Universal Bypass has bypassed something for you
• Added an info box which will make crowd bypassed sites more apparent and an option to disable it
• Added bypasses for: prox77.com, kuliahmatematika.my.id
• Improved bypasses for: duit.cc, bc.vc, uploadrar
• Updated translations
• Removed the 40x40px icon

11.5

• Added bypasses for: motorbalap.id, st.flashsubs.web.id, keisekaikuy.blogspot.com, short-url.link
• Added brunosansar's Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Improved bypasses for: Gslinks, link-to.net, uiz.io
• Updated translations
• Removed ad blocker workaround to avoid issues

11.4.3

• Improved redirect logic
• Updated default values in options to reflect actual default values
• Fixed "Instantly take me to destinations of trackers" option being disabled when it shouldn't be

11.4.2

• Improved redirect logic

11.4.1

• Adjusted default settings
• Fixed background script not working in Firefox

11.4

• Universal Bypass will now present a "referer" header to destination to make it even more undetectable
• Added bypasses for: toneden.io, sparbuttantowa.pro
• Improved bypasses for: adf.ly, ouo.today
• Added profugo53's Filipino translation
• Improved the look of highlighted options in dark mode

11.3

• Replaced "Automatically open crowd-sourced destinations in a new tab" option with "Open crowd-sourced destinations in a new tab after x second(s)" so it is in line with the new "Take me to destinations after x seconds" option added in 11.0. Again, I'd like to hear your feedback on these new, rather drastic changes.
• Added bypasses for: mm1.ink network, teknosafe template, adssuper.com, menantisenja.com
• Improved bypasses for: linkvertise network, ouo.today, 4snip.pw
• Updated translations
• Removed btcleets.xyz bypass as it is part of the mm1.ink network

11.2

• Universal Bypass will now respect your color scheme preference (i.e., UB is in dark mode if your OS is in dark mode)
• Added bypasses for: tr.link, dlbatch.com, bolaoke.club, lompat.in
• Improved bypasses for: bc.vc, 1link.club
• Improved GemPixel/KBRMedia Premium URL Shortener bypass
• Fixed ad blockers breaking Universal Bypass
• Removed runtyurl.com bypass as the site seems to be using the AdLinkFly Template now

11.1

• Added "Automatically open crowd-sourced destinations in a new tab" option
• Added bypasses for: Gslinks, lewd.ninja, kepoow.me, btcleets.xyz
• Improved AdLinkFly Template Bypass
• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin Bypass
• Fixed firstrun page being opened in a new window on Firefox
• Restyled options slightly to better fit custom bypasses
• Some general code improvements

11.0 — The Timed Update

• Replaced "Instantly take me to destinations" option with "Take me to destinations after x seconds" option which can be used to get the same effects as with the old option with the added feature of having a timer to automatically take you to the destination which I'm personally not a super fan of but I see the request from time to time and this seemed to be the best solution. I'd definitely like to hear your feedback on this.
• Updated translations

10.47

• Added mirrored.to bypass
• Improved SafelinkU Template bypass
• Improved link.tl bypass
• Updated Spanish translation

10.46

• Added bypasses for: adsafelink.net, wadooo.com, uiz.io, rikucan.com
• Improved bypasses for: AdLinkFly Template, GemPixel/KBRMedia Premium URL Shortener Template, bercara.com, semawur.com, in11.site
• Added ALvahN's Javanese Translation
• Updated French, Indonesian, and Russian translations
• Added an example for ifElement's else function to the default user script
• Removed bermedsos.com bypass because the site seems dead now

10.45

• Added bypasses for: acorme.com, zonangopi.ml, confile.net, indishare.org, otoponsel.com, linkshrtn.com, spacetica.com, adlink.pw
• Better explain custom bypasses

10.44.1

• Fix some issues with crowd bypass

10.44

• Added bypasses for: softpedia.com, bermedsos.com, miwa.xneet.id, permadihermawan.site, duit.cc, uxglow.com, mispuani.xyz, nurhamka.com, linepc.site, infokesehatan.club, wanhealth.me
• Added PBJF's Romanian Translation
• Updated Indonesian Translation
• Fixed firefaucet.win detecting Universal Bypass
• Removed apkmodif.com bypass as it seems to be a part of "the duit.cc network"

10.43

• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin Bypass
• Improved oxy.cloud bypass
• Fixed lewat.club crowd bypass
• Fixed SafelinkU bypass interfering with AdLinkFly bypass
• Fixed SourceForge bypass causing issues
• Removed the answer to life, the universe, and everything else

10.42

• Added the answer to life, the universe, and everything else
• Added bypasses for: ceklinku.xyz, safe.doramaku.me, hokiciki.org
• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin Bypass
• Updated French Translation
• Fixed universal-bypass.org/options not redirecting in Firefox
• Fixed SafelinkU bypass false positive

10.41

• Added bypasses for: ytsubme.com, shortlink.in, kisechan.web.id, arubedo.blogspot.com, hightech.web.id, gomentod.com, masreyhan.com, remiyu.me, lifeasurance.com, idalponse.blogspot.com
• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin Bypass
• Updated translations

10.40

• Added spaste.com captcha bypass
• Added space.tribuntekno.com bypass
• Added get-click2.blogspot.com bypass
• Added jossbingit.xyz bypass
• Added starzone.cc bypass
• Added hello.tribuntekno.com bypass
• Added bypass for indian4uh.com and similar sites
• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin Bypass

10.39

• Added pucuktranslation.pw bypass
• Added k2s.cc bypass
• Added njiir.com bypass
• Added mundodocinema.ga bypass
• Improved AdLinkFly Template Bypass
• Improved Safelink Template Bypass
• Improved SafelinkU Template Bypass
• Improved LinkTL Bypass
• Improved technicoz.com bypass
• Fixed linkduit.net bypass
• Updated translations

10.38

• Relevant checkboxes are now highlighted for some links to the options
• universal-bypass.org/options will now redirect to Universal Bypass' options
• Updated translations
• Removed the post-uninstall questionnaire
• Fixed an issue which caused the "Was this not correct?" link to not work in some cases
• Added anonymz.com bypass
• Added 1link.club bypass
• Added situsbaru.me bypass
• Added polrec.site bypass
• Added hokiwikiped.net bypass
• Improved cshort bypass
• Removed fshare.vn bypass as they have added backend validation

10.37

• Added ifElement(query, callback) function to improve bypasses (including custom bypasses!) that are checking for the existence of elements
• Overloaded domainBypass(domain, callback) so that domain can not only be string but also a regex
• Added gamesmega.net bypass
• Improved douploads bypass
• Updated translations

10.36

• Added shortmoz.link bypass
• Added dawnstation.com bypass
• Improved Safelink Wordpress Plugin bypass
• Updated translations

10.35

• Added hikarinoakariost.info bypass
• Added awaitElement(query, callback) function to improve bypasses (including custom bypasses!) that are waiting for elements to be created
• Merged mylink.zone bypass into mylinks.xyz bypass

10.34

• Added mylinks.xyz bypass
• Added AkaCrafterCZ's Czech translation
• Fixed linkduit.net bypass

10.33

• Added leechall.com bypass
• Added kharismanews.com bypass
• Improved ouo.io/press crowd bypass

10.32

• Added duniaislamku.com bypass
• Added driverays.com bypass
• Added wikitrik.com bypass
• Improved muhammadyoga.me bypass
• Updated Korean Translation

10.31

• Added apkmodif.com bypass
• Added boostme.gg bypass
• Added u.to bypass
• Added haaretz.co.il paywall bypass
• Updated translations

10.30.1

• Updated Arabic Translation
• Fixed some preflight bypasses not working on subdomains (especially www.)

10.30

• Added celeclub.org bypass
• Improved douploads.com bypass
• Updated translations
• Removed uploadhaven.com bypass as they have added backend validation

10.29

• Added uploadhaven.com bypass
• Added crowd bypass for adyou.me, adyou.co, etc.
• Improved linkduit.net bypass

10.28

• Updated French translation
• Improved SafelinkU bypass
• Fixed anonym.to bypass

10.27

• Added infosia.xyz bypass
• Updated translations

10.26

• Added sub2unlock.net bypass

10.25

• Added do2unlock.com bypass

10.24

• Added mobile01.com bypass
• Added ref.gamer.com.tw bypass

10.23.4

• Improved 123link bypass

10.23.3

• Improved Shorte.st Bypass

10.23.2

• Improved SafeLinkReview Bypass

10.23.1

• Added skiplink.io bypass

10.23

• Added surfsees.com bypass

10.22

• Added imgtaxi.com bypass
• Added teknologilink.com bypass
• Improved KuroSafe bypass
• Fixed oxy.cloud bypass

10.21.2

• Improved gslink.co bypass

10.21.1

• Improved shorte.st bypass

10.21

• Added uploadrar.com bypass

10.20

• Added anonym.to bypass
• Removed raidcall.com.tw bypass as the site has closed

10.19.1

• Changed disabled icon to look more disabled

10.19

• Change extension icon when "Enable website bypasses" option is disabled

10.18

• Improved error reporting
• Added message to Dz4link Bypass so you know it's working