What can you learn from a live forex trading session?

What happens during a live forex trading session on RihariFX's channel?

A live forex trading session, as shown in this video, is a stretch of the trading day where Rihari and members of his Discord community watch price move in real time, mark up charts with the levels they are tracking, narrate their reasoning out loud, and take trades together as a group.

The video frames this around a full day. It opens on the Gold Coast with a cold-water reflection routine Rihari says he does most mornings, moves into a round of golf with friends, and comes back in the evening for the London trading session, where the team is on a call together. Rihari says a detailed daily analysis goes out on the Discord every day, covering multiple pairs referred to in the video as GU, EU, UJ, GJ and UKAD. He describes this analysis as covering what happened the previous day, where the team thinks price is heading, key levels for price to reach, where liquidity is sitting, and where higher-timeframe points of interest are, alongside what the lower timeframe is doing from a market-structure perspective.

Rihari says this analysis is posted for people on the education platform and mentorship specifically so that beginners who have not yet learned to read charts themselves can still see the team's thinking and mark up their own charts alongside it as they learn. He also says he runs a London-session live trading session for the community every day and has started running New York-session live sessions on the platform Kick.

Later in the video, once the golf round and personal errands are done, Rihari checks the charts, joins a scheduled mentor call at 6pm, and then joins the team on the London-session live, where he says they caught "another gold trade" that he breaks down afterward for the camera. That breakdown, not the golf or the routine around it, is the part of the video that contains any trading detail.

What trade setup did Rihari describe in the video?

Rihari describes a gold (XAU) trade that he says returned a stated reward-to-risk of 1:13, restated later in the same breakdown as 1:14, after price rejected a major support area, built a bearish structure into a five-minute point of interest, then reversed into a one-minute point of interest before pushing higher.

He walks through his reasoning in order. First, the higher-timeframe picture: price had been rejected from a low on what he calls a huge support and supply level, and the whole prior week had been bearish on gold going into a period of consolidation. On that basis, Rihari says the team's bias was to treat any buy idea as invalid, "sales are raw," until price broke back above a higher-timeframe high on the five-minute chart.

Through the Wednesday Asia session and into the London and New York sessions, price pushed down hard, creating a run of lower lows and lower highs on the one-minute chart with what Rihari describes as heavy volume and aggression. He marks a five-minute point of interest right at the low of this move. From there, he says price rejected off that level and pushed back up, forming a smaller one-minute point of interest near a previous low.

Rihari says his plan at that stage was to take the trade with minimal risk: a stop loss placed just below that one-minute point of interest, because if price were going to keep falling it would likely have already broken back through the five-minute low rather than carving out this higher structure first. His first target was a break of the relevant 15-minute candle high, with further targets at a 15-minute support and resistance area beyond that.

He then narrates the trade playing out: price tapped into the one-minute point of interest, got a small rejection, then began pushing higher with a series of shallow pullbacks that kept making progress. Around the New York open, Rihari says price pulled back once more, in a way he describes as taking out traders positioned around the session open, before continuing in the direction his structure read suggested. Price then ran into a further five-minute point of interest at the extreme of the range, which is where he says he exited most of the position.

What steps does Rihari describe for building this trade idea?

Rihari lays out a repeatable sequence in the video for how he says he goes from a higher-timeframe read to an entry. The steps below follow his own narration of the gold trade, in the order he describes them.

1. Set a higher-timeframe bias first. Rihari says the team had been bearish on gold for the entire prior week, based on a rejection from a support and supply area on the higher timeframe, and treated buy ideas as invalid until that bias was disproven.
2. Wait for a break of structure before switching bias. He says the trigger to abandon the bearish view would be price breaking back above a specific higher-timeframe high on the five-minute chart, not a guess at a bottom.
3. Let price sweep liquidity into a marked point of interest. Rihari marks a five-minute point of interest at the low of the move and waits for price to tap into it rather than anticipating the reversal early.
4. Watch for an internal change of character on a lower timeframe. He describes the one-minute chart shifting from a run of lower lows and lower highs into a higher low, which he treats as the first sign of a possible reversal.
5. Mark a lower-timeframe point of interest at the most recent swing low and wait for a retest, rather than chasing the move once it has already started.
6. Place the stop loss below that swing low. Rihari says this keeps risk minimal because a break of that level would invalidate the reversal idea entirely.
7. Confirm continuation through session opens. He says he watched for shallow pullbacks that kept making higher highs, including through a pullback around the New York open that he describes as a stop hunt rather than a reversal.
8. Scale out rather than hold for the maximum target. Rihari says he took roughly 75% of the position off once price reached the next point of interest and moved his stop loss to protect the remainder instead of holding the full size for the highest possible target.

Rihari presents this as the process he teaches on his education platform and in his mentorship, applied here to one specific trade. The video does not show this process applied to a losing trade, so it demonstrates the sequence of decisions rather than proving the sequence produces winning trades reliably.

How did Rihari manage risk on the trade, according to the video?

Rihari says he risked about half a percent of size on the trade he calls the 1:14 setup, with the stop loss placed below the one-minute swing low rather than a wider level, and he says this small risk was deliberate because "we don't know what price is going to do."

On that same trade, he says the resulting reward-to-risk of roughly 1:14 translated into about a 7% gain, a figure he states directly in the video but does not show through any account statement, broker screen, or third-party record in the footage. On the second gold trade discussed, taken the following day with what he calls a "conservative stop loss," he reports a reward-to-risk of 1:9 without giving a specific risk percentage.

Separately, the video's title states that Rihari made over $5,000 across the trades shown. Nothing in the transcript itself, no account balance, no closed-trade history, no broker statement, backs that figure up on screen. It should be read as a claim the video makes about itself, not as an independently confirmed result.

All of these figures describe two specific trades on two specific days, narrated after the fact by the person who took them. The video does not show a losing trade, a drawdown, or a run of trades over a longer period, so there is nothing in this footage that supports a conclusion about win rate, consistency, or typical outcomes from this approach. That gap matters more than the individual numbers: a single winning trade, however large the reported reward-to-risk, says nothing on its own about what happens over ten, fifty, or a hundred trades.

What role do the Discord community and education platform play?

Rihari says the Discord serves two functions in the video: a daily written analysis covering multiple pairs, and live group trading sessions during the London and New York sessions where members watch and trade alongside him.

He says the analysis is written to be useful to people who are "at the moment learning" and have not yet developed the skill to read charts themselves, so they can follow the team's reasoning on the day's key levels and points of interest and compare it against their own markup as they progress. He describes this as, in his words, the most valuable part of what people get through the education platform, ahead of any other material bundled with it.

Beyond the written analysis, Rihari says he runs a London-session live trading session for the community every day, where the gold trade he breaks down in this video was taken alongside the wider group, and that he has more recently started separate New York-session live sessions on Kick. He also mentions a scheduled mentor call, which the video shows him joining at 6pm on the same day, though the transcript does not describe what happens on that call beyond its existence and timing.

Rihari also references one specific student, saying that student took a trade from a setup that "looks like nothing" on the one-hour chart but showed the same market-structure shift on a lower timeframe that he looks for himself. Beyond this one mention, the video gives no detail about how many students there are, what results they report, or how their trades were sized.

How do the two gold trades described in the video compare?

The video walks through two separate gold trades on consecutive days, both built around the same setup: a reversal off a five-minute point of interest confirmed by a one-minute market-structure shift. Their reported outcomes differ, and the video gives more risk detail for one trade than the other.

| Detail | Trade from the prior night (broken down in full) | Trade taken "today" during London session | |---|---|---| | Session context | Builds through the Asia session into London and New York | Taken during the London session | | Setup Rihari describes | Reversal from a five-minute point of interest after a bearish weekly run, confirmed by a one-minute market-structure shift | Described as a "very identical" setup to the prior day's trade | | Reward-to-risk reported | Stated as 1:13 early in the breakdown, then restated as 1:14 later in the same breakdown | Stated as 1:9 | | Stop-loss placement | Below the one-minute swing low that formed the point of interest | Described only as a "conservative stop loss," with no specific level given | | Risk sized, by Rihari's own account | About 0.5%, reportedly producing roughly a 7% gain on the trade | Not stated in the transcript | | Profit management | About 75% of the position closed early; stop loss moved to protect the remainder | Not detailed in the transcript |

Both figures come from Rihari's own narration over replayed chart footage, not from a verified trade log, and both describe winning trades. The video does not include a comparable breakdown of a losing trade taken under the same process, so the table above cannot be extended into a win-rate or consistency comparison.

What do independently verified statistics say about forex and CFD trading outcomes?

Two independent data points sit outside anything Rihari says in the video, useful for judging any retail trading claim, including the trades described here. ASIC Report 828 found 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024. The BIS 2025 Triennial Survey put average daily OTC forex turnover at US$9.6 trillion in April 2025.

Neither figure describes Rihari, his community, or the two gold trades discussed in this video specifically. The ASIC figure describes outcomes reported across the Australian retail CFD investor population as a whole over a full financial year, a category that includes retail forex CFDs alongside other CFD products. The BIS figure describes the size of the global over-the-counter foreign-exchange market that trades like the ones in this video take place inside; it says nothing about who wins or loses within that market.

Read together, the two figures frame what a single video like this one can and cannot show. The BIS number confirms that gold and currency pairs trade inside an enormous, liquid market where any individual trader's activity is a vanishingly small part of daily turnover. The ASIC number confirms that, across a full year and a large population of Australian retail investors, most people trading CFDs lost money rather than made it.

Two winning trades narrated on camera do not offset or contradict that 68% figure, because they are not a sample of anything. They are two outcomes chosen and explained by the person who took them, shown without a corresponding losing trade, drawdown period, or verified trading history. Anyone weighing the video's trade breakdown against these numbers should treat the ASIC figure as the more informative one for judging likely outcomes, and treat the video as a demonstration of one trader's process rather than as evidence about results.

What should viewers take from watching a single live trading session?

The most useful thing to take from this video is the decision process Rihari narrates: higher-timeframe bias first, then a wait for liquidity and structure confirmation before entering, then a defined stop loss and partial profit-taking, rather than the specific dollar figures or reward-to-risk ratios he reports.

That process is demonstrated, not proven, by the footage. The video shows two trades that Rihari says worked out, narrated after the fact with the benefit of hindsight and replay mode, and does not show a losing trade taken with the same process, a drawdown, or any period where the setup failed. A viewer cannot use two winning trades to judge how often this approach wins or loses, because two trades are not a track record.

The video also does not show an account balance, a broker statement, or any independent confirmation of the reward-to-risk figures, risk percentages, or dollar amount referenced in the title. Every number in this article attributed to Rihari or the video should be read as a claim made in the footage, not as a verified fact.

Set against that, the independently published figures are unambiguous: ASIC Report 828 found that 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year, and the market these trades sit inside, per the BIS 2025 Triennial Survey, turns over US$9.6 trillion a day. Watching someone else's live trading session, on this video or any other, is a look at one person's process on one day. It is not a substitute for a verified track record, and it is not evidence about what happens to any individual viewer who tries the same approach.