Discipline
Building a trading routine you can run for years
The closing part. What to assemble from this series, in what order, and the honest note about which half of trading actually decides outcomes.
6 min read
Research / Tag
Trading journal
Recording decisions rather than results, and what the record reveals.
8 articles
Tagged “Trading journal”
Cognitive bias
Overconfidence: why winning streaks are dangerous
A run of wins feels like skill and is frequently luck. How outcome bias distorts self-assessment, and why the largest losses often follow the best weeks.
6 min read
Discipline
Process versus outcome: judging the part you control
A good trade can lose and a bad trade can win. Evaluating yourself on results teaches the wrong lessons — here is what to grade instead.
6 min read
Cognitive bias
Recency and availability: why the last three trades feel like the whole picture
Recent and vivid events dominate judgement out of proportion to their weight. What that does to strategy assessment, and the sample sizes that actually mean something.
6 min read
Trading journal
The trading journal: recording decisions, not just results
A list of profits and losses teaches almost nothing. What to record instead, and why the fields that matter are the ones written before the outcome is known.
6 min read
Discipline
Writing a trading plan you will actually follow
Most trading plans are documents nobody reads twice. What a usable one contains, and the test that separates a plan from a wish list.
6 min read
Risk-reward
Risk-reward ratio: using it without fooling yourself
R-multiples make strategies comparable and journals honest — but only when the reward is as real as the risk. Where the ratio genuinely helps, and the two ways it gets gamed.
6 min read
Drawdown
Reading your own drawdown: normal variance or broken strategy?
Every strategy has losing runs. Telling an ordinary one apart from a genuine failure is the difference between abandoning something that worked and persisting with something that stopped.
6 min read
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