Learn Trading
These guides cover the parts of trading that actually decide your results. Start with the fundamentals, the six things every trade runs through, then go deeper on your edge and the risk management that keeps your account alive long enough for that edge to show up.
Fundamentals
The six fundamentals every trader runs every decision through. Edge, strategy, risk management, psychology, execution, and review, each explained simply.
- What Is a Trading Edge A measurable advantage that shows up over a large sample of trades, not in any single result.
- What Is a Trading Strategy The fixed rules that define what you trade, when a trade is valid, and where you enter and exit.
- What Is Risk Management in Trading Deciding how much you are willing to lose before you enter, so a losing streak stays recoverable.
- What Is Trading Psychology The beliefs and emotional control that let you follow your plan instead of reacting to one outcome.
- What Is Trade Execution Following your plan in real time. The gap between a strategy edge and your actual results.
- What Is Trade Review Measuring your trades so you can improve them, judged on whether you followed the plan.
Understanding Edge
What a trading edge is and how to measure it, starting with expectancy, the number that tells you a strategy makes money.
Risk Management
How much to risk, how to size a trade, and how to protect your account so your edge has time to play out.
- How Much to Risk Per Trade Why the 1% rule keeps small losing streaks recoverable, and how to set your own number.
- How to Calculate Position Size Turn your risk per trade and stop distance into the exact number of shares to buy.
- Where to Place Your Stop Loss Put the stop at the price that proves the trade wrong, from structure, not from a dollar feeling.
More topics are on the way, including trading psychology, strategy and setups, and trade review.
Put the lessons to work
Trader Dashboard is the journal where you log trades, grade your setups, and watch your edge show up in the numbers. Access it with a Trader Dashboard subscription.