What Is a Trading Plan? Components and Template
Most traders know what a plan should contain. The harder question is which rule stops you first on a losing day.
ATR Indicator Explained: How to Use Average True Range for Stops and Position Size
When volatility doubles, your position size should halve on its own. ATR helps adjust that without you deciding it.
Support and Resistance: How to Find, Draw and Trade Key Price Levels
Draw support as a thin line and you will watch it fail constantly, when the level was actually holding the whole time.
First 30 Days as a Trader (Week 4): Drafting a Trading Plan
Week four closes the series with the document everything else was building toward, plus the one journal column that does a lot of work.
First 30 Days as a Trader (Week 3): How to Read a Trading Chart
The same morning is one candle on a daily chart and twenty-four on an hourly chart. Week three explains why both are accurate and what that means.
First 30 Days as a Trader (Week 2): Position Sizing and Risk Limits
Most people pick a strategy and then work out the risk. Week two illustrates why this could be the right sequence running backwards.
First 30 Days as a Trader (Week 1): How Markets Work
Week one places no trade at all. It builds from the ground up, so that Week three and four has something robust to land on.
Gold Trading Strategies: Five Popular Frameworks
Five different traders can look at the same gold chart and reach five defensible conclusions, because each is running a different framework.
CFDs vs. Stocks: Which Fits Your Strategy?
Two traders can take the same view on the same company and get different outcomes, purely because of how long they intend to hold it.
10 Financial Market Terms Every Trader Should Know
Markets have their own vocabulary. Before your first trade, make sure you know what these 10 popular financial terms actually mean.