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Why you size a trade from your stop, not from how good the idea feels — with the arithmetic.

Commissions, spread and impulse trades — the part of your P&L that never shows up on a chart.

Most journals are diaries. A useful one records execution, not feelings — plus one field everyone skips.

Thirty minutes a week, four questions, and exactly one change — otherwise you learn nothing.

The limits that stop a bad day from becoming a bad month — set before the session, not during it.

Revenge, FOMO, greed and boredom — how to spot which one is writing your order tickets.

The one number that makes good and bad trades comparable.

Every entry and exit crosses a spread. What it quietly costs a year.

Structure or amount? The difference between a stop that survives noise and one that gets clipped.

A 70% win rate can lose money. The formula that tells you which.

The decline from a peak decides how big you are allowed to be.

Simulated trading only works if you treat it like money.

Why the same strategy can compound for one trader and bankrupt another — it is the size, not the edge.

If it does not fit on a page you will not follow it — and a plan you ignore is worse than none.

The four ways a backtest tells you what you want to hear — and how to check for each.

Leverage does not change your edge. It changes how fast the same edge reaches zero.

Spread, slippage and stops that get filled far from where you placed them — all in one word.

Fixed target, trailing stop, or time stop. Most traders use the wrong one for their setup.

A simple sequence that costs almost nothing and builds the habits that survive.

The more hours you watch, the more trades you take. That is a cost, not a compliment.