How to Do a Weekly Trading Review: A Step-by-Step Process for Futures Traders
A weekly trading review turns a week of trades into one concrete change. A 45-minute process: the numbers in R, a rule audit, your exits, and one new rule.
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Best Time of Day to Trade NQ and ES Futures: How to Find Your Own Best Hours
There is no single best time to trade NQ, ES or MNQ. Learn how the futures day is structured and how to find your own best hours from your trade data.
How to Stop Cutting Your Winners Short: Why You Take Profits Too Early and What It Really Costs
Closing winners before your target feels safe, but it can quietly halve your expectancy. Here is why traders take profits too early, how to measure the cost in R, and the exit rules that fix it.
How to Stop Revenge Trading: Spot It in Your Own Trades and Build Rules That Actually Hold
Revenge trading rarely feels like revenge in the moment — it feels like a good setup you can't afford to miss. Here is how to recognise it in your own trade history, measure what it actually costs you in R, and build circuit-breaker rules that still work when you're angry.
Trading Expectancy: How to Calculate Your Real Edge (and Why Most Traders Measure It Wrong)
Expectancy tells you what a strategy earns per trade on average — the one number that answers whether you have an edge. Here is the formula in dollars and in R, how many trades it takes before the number means anything, and the mistakes that quietly inflate it.
Losing Streaks in Trading: How Long They Really Get, and How to Tell Bad Luck From a Broken Strategy
A 50% win rate produces long losing streaks as a matter of arithmetic. Here is how to estimate the streaks your win rate implies, what they cost at your risk per trade, and how to tell normal variance from a strategy that has stopped working.
How to Calculate Position Size in Trading: The Formula Most Traders Get Wrong
Position size determines whether a losing streak is survivable or account-ending. Here is the actual formula, worked examples across futures, forex, stocks and crypto, and the mistakes that quietly break it.
What Is a Good Win Rate in Trading? (And What It Actually Hides)
Win rate is the first stat every trader checks, and one of the least reliable on its own. Here is the break-even win rate formula, why a high win rate can still lose money, and what to track alongside it.
Why Most Trading Journals Track the Wrong Things
P&L, win rate, and trade count feel like the obvious things to log — and they are also the least useful for figuring out whether your trading is actually improving. Here is what a trading journal should measure instead.
Why Tracking PnL Alone Is Not Enough for Traders
A green account can hide a broken process, and a red one can hide a good strategy. Here is why PnL is the wrong primary metric, and what to track instead to actually know if your trading is working.
How to Build a Trading Plan for a Prop Firm Challenge in 2026
A strategy alone doesn't pass a prop firm challenge. Here's how to build a complete trading plan — risk rules, daily loss limits, entry and exit rules, and a system for tracking whether you actually followed them.
Why Traders Break Their Own Rules — And How to Build a Trading Process That Prevents It
Knowing your rules and following them are two different skills. Here is why traders violate plans they believe in, and how to build a process that makes discipline measurable instead of aspirational.
Why Most Traders Don't Need Better Entries — They Need Better Journaling
Traders spend years hunting for a better entry signal when the real leak is somewhere else entirely. Here is why journaling fixes more P&L than any indicator, and what to actually record.
What Is Profit Factor in Trading (And What a Good One Actually Looks Like)
Profit factor is gross profit divided by gross loss. Here is how to calculate it, what range is realistic, and why a very high number is usually a warning sign.
R-Multiple Explained: The Only Way to Compare Trades Fairly
R-multiple measures profit in units of risk instead of dollars. Here is how to calculate it, why it makes trades comparable across markets, and the mistake that quietly ruins the number.
What to Actually Log in a Trading Journal (And What to Stop Logging)
Most trading journals collect data nobody reviews. Here are the fields that change behaviour, the ones that waste your time, and how to review them in ten minutes a week.
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