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Manual trading, by the numbers
How to size a position, hold your risk and review your trades: worked examples with numbers and screens from the terminal.
How to choose a trading platform: 10 questions to ask first
10 questions to ask a trading platform before your first trade: API keys, risk checks, history, the journal, and your position after the subscription ends.
How to read the order book: walls, icebergs and liquidations
What the order book (DOM) is and how to read it: which walls to trust, how to spot an iceberg on the tape (12 BTC shown, 36 filled) and why a forex DOM differs.
Trading simulator on real history: practise without risk
What a trading simulator is and why market replay beats a demo account: 100 trades in 10 evenings instead of 50 days, and where paper trading flatters you.
Volume profile: how to read the POC and the value area
How to read a volume profile: POC, VAH and VAL, how the 70% value area is calculated, which range to pick for a fixed range volume profile, and its limits.
Daily loss limit in trading: how to set it and when to stop
A daily loss limit is risk management for the whole day: 2% is four stops at 0.5%, why to pause after a losing streak, and what the limit won't do for you.
How to calculate lot size from risk: formula and examples
The lot size formula for forex, gold and crypto, worked from the money you risk: pip value, three examples with numbers and costs that make a stop lose more.
Crypto trading terminal with your forex broker in one window
How a crypto trading terminal connects to an exchange with an API key and to a broker through MetaTrader 5, and how an order never lands on the wrong account.
Manual backtesting: test a strategy on history in an evening
What backtesting is, how manual testing differs from a strategy tester, how to do it step by step, how long a month takes and how to read the result in R.
Trading journal: what to record and how to keep it
How to keep a trading journal: which fields it needs, which slices show where the money leaks, and why spreadsheet journals get abandoned within a week.