Category
Trading & Investing Education
Journaling trades, sizing positions, managing risk and practising without real money. Education only, never a promise of returns.
Trading journalsRisk and position sizeMarket sessionsPaper tradingChart basics
Solutions
- Why do I keep making the same trading mistakes? How to break the patternThe common reasons traders repeat costly mistakes, from overtrading to revenge trading and moving stops, and a step-by-step routine to find and stop yours.
- How to stop revenge trading after a lossWhat revenge trading is, why losses push traders into bigger, faster trades, and a practical routine with rules decided in advance to stop it before it costs more.
Guides and answers
- How to keep a trading journal that actually improves your tradingWhat to record in a trading journal, how to review it, and how a journal and back-testing show which setups really work for you.
- Forex market hours, trading sessions and kill zones explainedWhen the Asian, London and New York forex sessions open, why session overlaps matter, and what traders mean by kill zones.
- How to calculate position size and lot size in forexThe position size formula for forex and gold, with a worked example, so every trade risks the same percentage of your account.
- How to learn crypto trading without risking real moneyHow beginners can learn crypto trading safely with paper trading on real prices, what to practise first, and the risks to understand before using real money.
- Candlestick charts for beginners: how to read themHow a candlestick shows open, high, low and close, what body and wicks mean, and a few common patterns — explained simply.
- What is the crypto Fear & Greed index?What the crypto Fear & Greed index measures, how traders read extreme fear and extreme greed, and why it is a mood gauge, not a signal.
Free tools
- Position size calculator (forex)Works out how many lots to trade so that, if your stop-loss is hit, you lose only the percentage of your account you chose to risk.
- Risk/reward calculatorShows how much you stand to gain for each unit you risk, and the share of trades you would need to win just to break even at that ratio.
Comparisons
- Paper trading vs live trading: what practice can and can't teach youHow paper (demo) trading compares with trading real money: what practice teaches well, what it cannot, and how to move from one to the other safely.
- Trading journal app vs spreadsheet: which helps you improve faster?Comparing a trading journal app with a spreadsheet journal: effort per trade, screenshots, statistics by setup and session, cost and flexibility.
Templates
- Trading journal templateA trading journal with one row per trade and the fields that reveal patterns, such as setup, session, result in R and whether you followed your rules.
Apps that can help
Each guide above works without any app. These are tools we make for the same jobs, and their pages list exactly what they do and cost.