Trading Knowledge & Insights

A stop belongs where your idea is invalidated, and position size follows from it. Five common mistakes, three workable methods, and the two journal metrics that reveal your stop quality.

FOMO costs money not because of the emotion but because a late entry widens the stop distance and degrades reward relative to risk. The mechanism, five markers and four rules against it.

A spreadsheet carries you reliably for the first few months. Its limits are manual capture, partial fills, invisible formula errors and segmented review. Five signals show when a switch is due.

Choosing a broker is not decided by commissions. Seven criteria from regulation and tax handling through to exit costs, weighted by trading style, plus a way to test a broker before committing.

Create a read only Bitget API key, enter key, secret and passphrase in your journal, and sync trades automatically. A step by step guide including the four most common setup mistakes.

Choosing between swing trading and day trading is a calendar question first. Time commitment, cost ratio, gap risk and the typical failure modes of each style compared, with three real world scenarios.

An R multiple measures every trade in units of the risk you took. The formula, a worked example, how to read an R distribution, and the four errors that make the review systematically too optimistic.

Tilt is not a mood but a measurable deviation from your own rules. The triggers behind it, the five behavioural signals that reveal it early, and the rules that actually hold once you are in it.

Profit factor divides your gross profit by your gross loss. The formula, a worked example, how to read typical values, and the three effects that distort the number most often.

A crypto trading journal needs the same core fields as a stock journal, but it must handle four differences: continuous trading, multiple exchanges and wallets, a moving accounting currency, and costs split across many small components.

Momentum trading buys what is already moving and bets on trend continuation. This guide covers relative strength, market filters, entries, exits and risk control for anyone moving from buy and hold to active trading.

Position size decides what a single loss actually costs you. Here is how to calculate it in three steps.

Your trading results depend less on the strategy you pick and more on how consistently you actually follow it.

A trading journal is only as useful as the metrics it tracks. These 5 numbers determine whether you truly understand your performance.