Trailing Drawdown Explained: Why Your Loss Limit Moves Up
A trailing drawdown moves up as your account grows, which can leave less room than you think. Learn how it works, the main types, and how to trade around it.
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Futures Tick Value Explained: How Every Tick Turns Into Dollars
Learn how futures tick value works, how to calculate profit and loss per contract, and why micro contracts make position sizing easier.
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How a Prop Firm Funded Account Works: Rules, Payouts and Risks
A plain-English guide to the prop firm funded account model, from the paid evaluation to drawdown rules, payouts and the risks most traders overlook.
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Order Flow: The Tradeoff Behind Every Trade
Most traders stare at candles their whole career and never understand the one thing actually moving them. Here’s that one thing, order flow — in plain English. In short, order flow is the tradeoff between price and certainty on every trade, and this article explains it in plain English. Every single move on your chart…
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How to Trade FVGs and Fair Value Gaps Explained
This guide explains fair value gaps and how to trade them. There’s a pattern that shows up on your chart more than a hundred times a day, and most traders scroll right past it. It isn’t an indicator. It isn’t a secret strategy. It’s a gap in price action that forms during fast moves. Once…
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Stop Memorizing Candlestick Patterns – Read the Story
Most traders look at candlestick patterns and see shapes – dojis, hammers, engulfing patterns, haramis, marubozus, three soldiers, three crows. So they memorize the names, memorize what they look like, wait for the shape to appear, and trade it the second it shows up. Then they lose. Here’s what they’re missing, and what I missed…
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We Stopped Trading on Coinbase. Here’s the Exchange We Mostly Use Now.
We stopped trading on Coinbase, and this article explains which exchange we mostly use now and why. Why I stopped trading on Coinbase for the Bitunix exchange First, the fee math. Coinbase charges retail traders up to 0.40% on every trade. That sounds small. However, run the numbers on a $10,000 swing trade you flip…
