Guides
Short, practical writing on the habits that matter more than any setup: trading less, journaling honestly and keeping your own rules.
- How to stop overtrading: a system that doesn’t rely on willpower
Overtrading is a process problem, not a character flaw. A daily cap, a written plan per trade and a cooldown after a loss do more than willpower ever will.
- How to keep a trading journal you’ll actually keep
Most trading journals die within a week. Keep it to a few fields you can fill in under a minute — setup, emotion, rule kept or broken, one lesson — and review it weekly.
- Revenge trading: what it is and how to break the loop
Revenge trading is the urge to win back a loss immediately. Recognise the signs, pre-commit to a pause, and make the next trade earn its place.
- Bar-by-bar replay vs backtesting: why hindsight flatters you
Scrolling back through a chart shows you where the move went. Replaying it bar by bar hides the future, so you practise the decision you actually face.
- The prop firm challenge rules that fail most traders
Most funded-account challenges are failed on the risk rules, not the profit target. What daily loss, maximum drawdown and consistency rules mean, and how to rehearse them.
- Trade less, trade better: scoring discipline instead of profit
P/L is a noisy score for a single day. Scoring the process — plan written, rules kept, sat out when nothing fit — builds the habit that makes results possible.