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Strategies, journaling tips and analyses for your trading performance.
A funding rate is a payment between longs and shorts, not an exchange fee. How it works, why it grows with holding time, and why it needs its own column in your journal.
The annual statement is a tax reconciliation, not a profit account. What sits behind each item, why the figures differ from your journal, and how to reconcile the two properly.
Five positions on one theme behave like a single one on a bad day. How to measure total open risk, group positions coarsely, and work with two limits instead of a per trade rule.
A transfer moves your holdings but not your loss pools or exemption order. Which acquisition data is passed on, what becomes unreachable once the account closes, and the order to do it in.
Overtrading is measurable rather than a feeling. Four journal indicators reveal it, the distinction from tilt and FOMO explains it, and two numbers instead of resolutions contain it.
Tags turn a trade list into reviewable segments. Which five dimensions carry the insight, why twenty tags say less than five, and why the decisive number is trades per segment rather than in total.
The saver's allowance is yours by law; the exemption order simply collects it earlier. Its size, splitting across brokers, deadlines, the order against loss pools, and what applies to foreign brokers and crypto.
Volatility is not traded, it is accounted for. Why crypto markets swing more structurally, how to measure your pair's daily range, and what position size follows at unchanged risk.
Relative strength is a ranking, not a threshold. How to measure it, which reference and lookback windows fit, how it becomes a watchlist, and the four pitfalls that recur.
A normal drawdown follows from your win rate and risk per trade, not from a general percentage. How to calculate your expected losing streak and spot the three signals of a genuine strategy problem.
A routine moves decisions out of the moment and into a calm phase beforehand. Preparation, trading window and close in detail, adapted for a full time job, plus three journal metrics to verify it is working.
A review needs a fixed appointment and a fixed list of questions. Weekly for completeness and rule compliance, monthly for a few numbers, plus per trade scoring that keeps process and outcome apart.
Losses only reduce tax inside the right offset category. Share losses, other investment income and crypto are kept apart, the derivatives restriction has gone, and offsetting across brokers hinges on 15 December.
In spot you buy the asset, in futures a contract on its price. From that follow liquidation, funding costs and margin mode, four extra journal fields, and the rule to review the two separately.
Breakouts rarely fail because of the break itself, but on a weak level, an overly wide consolidation or the wrong regime. Five checkable criteria, plus whether to enter immediately or wait for confirmation.