Learn trading discipline
Short, practical guides on the habits that cost traders money and the routines that fix them. Each guide answers one question first, then gives a checklist you can use today. Process education only: no trade ideas or price levels.
- How to stop revenge tradingRevenge trading is taking a new trade to win back a loss. Stop it with a written cooldown rule, a daily loss limit and a check before every re-entry.
- How to stop overtradingOvertrading means taking more trades than your plan allows. Set a daily trade limit, plan each trade before entry and track results by trade number.
- How to start a trading journalStart a trading journal with three habits: write the plan before entry, record every trade after charges, and review once a week with one change.
- What to track in a trading journalThe fields worth tracking in a trading journal: plan, entry, exit, size, charges, net result, R-multiple, rules followed, behaviour flags and emotion.
- Trading rules examplesExamples of trading rules written as if-then plans: daily trade and loss limits, cooldown after a loss, risk per trade and a cutoff time for new trades.
- Trading psychology basicsTrading psychology basics for discipline: why outcomes mislead, how lucky wins teach bad habits, and how routines and rules reduce emotional decisions.
- Pre-market routineA short pre-market routine for traders: check sleep and mood, re-read your rules one by one, set today's trade limit and read last evening's plan.
- How to review your tradesA weekly trade review method: find your most expensive mistake, separate skill from luck, compare rule-following and rule-breaking trades, pick one rule.
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