Trade by your rules.
Plain-English guides to position sizing, risk and keeping a trading journal that actually helps.
Position sizing & risk
How much to risk, how big to trade, and how to survive the bad runs.
How liquidation price works on perpetual futures
What liquidation is, how leverage sets your liquidation price, a worked long and short example, and why it must sit well beyond your stop loss.
Read the guide →Max drawdown explained: how to measure it and how to limit it
What maximum drawdown is, how to work it out from your equity curve, why recovering from a drawdown takes a bigger gain, and practical ways to keep it small.
Read the guide →The 1% rule: how much to risk per trade
Why many traders risk only 1% of their account per trade, what a 10-trade losing streak does at 1%, 2%, 5% and 10%, and how to stick to your rule.
Read the guide →How to calculate position size for crypto futures, from your stop loss
A step-by-step way to size a crypto perpetual futures position so a stop-out costs exactly the risk you chose, fees included, and why leverage doesn't change it.
Read the guide →Fees & costs
Trading fees and funding: what they really cost and how to pay less.
How funding rates work on perpetual futures, and what they really cost
What the funding rate is, who pays whom, how to work out a funding payment, and why holding a perp for days can cost more than your whole risk on the trade.
Read the guide →Maker vs taker fees on crypto futures, and what they cost you in a year
The difference between maker and taker fees, how to work out what each trade costs, and how much order type and stop distance change your yearly fee bill.
Read the guide →Measuring results
R-multiples, risk-reward, expectancy: the numbers that show what works.
Expectancy and profit factor: the two numbers that tell you if a strategy works
How to work out expectancy and profit factor from your trades, what good values look like, and why win rate on its own tells you very little.
Read the guide →What is an R-multiple, and why traders measure results in R
R-multiples explained: how to work out R for a trade, why it beats dollars for comparing results, and what average R and expectancy tell you about a strategy.
Read the guide →Risk-reward ratio explained, and why a 1:3 trade can still lose money
What the risk-reward ratio measures, the win rate you need to break even at 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3, and how fees quietly shrink your real ratio.
Read the guide →Journaling & discipline
Keeping a journal you'll use, and sticking to your own rules.
How to keep a trading journal that actually helps
What to record for every trade, what to skip, and a simple weekly review that turns a trading journal into better decisions.
Read the guide →Notion vs spreadsheet vs a dedicated trading journal
An honest comparison of keeping your trading journal in Notion, in Google Sheets or Excel, or in a dedicated trading journal app, and when each one makes sense.
Read the guide →Revenge trading: how to spot it in your journal and stop it
What revenge trading is, the signs that show up in your trading journal, and practical rules that stop one loss from turning into a bad day or a bad month.
Read the guide →Tracking emotions in your trades: how to tag them and what the stats show
A simple way to tag the emotion behind each trade, which tags to use, and how to read your results by emotion to find the moods that cost you money.
Read the guide →The Turtle Traders experiment, and what it teaches crypto traders today
The story of Richard Dennis's 1983 Turtle Traders experiment, the rules they followed, and the lessons on position sizing and discipline that still apply to crypto trading.
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