Advice for working traders
The unglamorous half of the job, written down
Sizing that survives a losing month. Execution costs you can actually measure. A journal short enough to keep. Broker questions worth asking before you fund. No signals, no courses, nothing for sale.
Six working areas
01
Risk and Capital
Sizing, drawdown budgets and the de-risking ladder that keeps an account alive through a bad stretch.
02
Execution and Order Flow
Spread, slippage and choosing the order type from the logic of the trade rather than from habit.
03
Desk Routine
Pre-session preparation, a four-minute journal and a week structured around decisions, not screen time.
04
Strategy Review
Sample size, expectancy and the four-question test for telling a broken edge from a bad month.
05
Brokers and Platforms
Counterparty due diligence, execution models and the fees that quietly outgrow your edge.
06
Career and Funded Trading
Prop firm rules read as a specification, and the capital arithmetic behind trading for a living.
Latest
- Going Full Time: The Arithmetic Before You Quit
Trading for a living is a capital problem before it is a skill problem. Run these numbers honestly first. - Prop Firm Challenges: What the Rules Are Really Testing
Evaluation rules are not arbitrary obstacles. Read them as a specification and the pass rate changes. - Execution Models Explained: A-Book, B-Book and Hybrid
What happens to your order after you click buy, and why the answer changes how you should trade. - Broker Due Diligence: Ten Questions Before You Fund
Choosing a counterparty is a credit decision, not a marketing comparison. These are the questions that actually matter. - Sample Size: How Many Trades Before You Judge an Edge
Twenty trades tell you almost nothing. Here is roughly what it takes before a result means something. - Broken Strategy or Bad Month? How to Tell the Difference
Abandoning a working system during a normal drawdown is the most expensive mistake in discretionary trading. Here is the test.
Most people who trade leveraged foreign exchange lose money. Nothing published here changes that base rate — it only changes how carefully you find out where you stand.