Four traders, identical expectancy, differing only in how they collect it. After 500 trades against the same drawdown, 95% of the small-win accounts are alive and 7% of the big-win accounts are. The a...
Trailing a stop once you're in profit is the most universally recommended habit in retail trading, and across 40,000 simulated trades it lost money in every version that kept a target. The tighter the...
Everyone writes about revenge trading. Almost nobody writes about what happens after a big green day, when the size creeps up and you're playing with what feels like the market's money. On a trailing ...
No course, no Discord, no students — email is the only way anyone reaches me, which means I can answer honestly. Most of what arrives is about psychology rather than setups. Here's what I can help wit...
Not because volatility is frightening. Because volatility only moves one side of the trade — a stop is a market order that fills wherever price is, a target is a limit order that fills at your price o...
The standard advice is to make peace with losses. Professional CBOT traders tested for loss aversion showed more of it than students, not less. What separates the people who last isn't comfort — it's ...
Three honest answers — 20%, under 1%, and 1 in 2,456 — depending on what "profitable" means. One study followed every new index-futures day trader in a country for three years. Of 19,646 who started, ...
Which Trading Method Actually Wins? Nobody Has Measured It Supply and demand, momentum scalping, mean reversion, order blocks — there is no study comparing them, because no dataset records what a trad...
Why So Many Traders Play Poker (And What Actually Transfers) Susquehanna, one of the largest options market makers in the world, puts new traders through 100+ hours of poker before they touch a real p...
The Gym Won’t Make You a Sharper Trader. It Does Something Better. The claim you’ve heard is that exercise improves executive function, so you’ll have better impulse control at the s...
