Trade with a process,
not a gut feeling.
Plain-English guides on the parts of trading that actually decide whether you last: sizing, risk, and discipline. Every guide comes with a free tool so you can put it to work the same day.
Strategies
3 guidesThe opening-range breakout, start to finish
The first minutes of the session set a box. How to draw it, which break is worth taking in either direction, and how to tell a real one from the trap.
Trend pullback: buying the dip that is not a falling knife
Wait for the trend to breathe, then enter where risk is small and the trend is still intact. The entry, the stop, and the line that says you were wrong.
Support and demand zones: where buyers actually showed up
A zone is not a line. How to mark the areas where real buying appeared before, and how to trade a retest without catching the knife.
Risk management
8 guidesHow to size a position: the 1% risk rule
The three-step formula disciplined traders use to size any trade off their risk instead of a gut feeling, with a worked example.
What is Value at Risk (VaR) and how to calculate it
The parametric VaR formula, a worked example, the three methods, and the tail risk VaR quietly hides from you.
Risk of ruin: the math that decides if you survive
Why a winning system can still blow up, the four levers that drive ruin, and the one that matters most.
The Kelly Criterion for traders (and why to use half-Kelly)
The formula for optimal bet size, why full Kelly is dangerous, and how half-Kelly keeps the growth while cutting the drawdown.
How to use a trailing stop (ATR-based)
Lock in gains without giving them back: why an ATR trailing stop beats a fixed percent, with a worked example that walks the stop up.
What is trade expectancy and how to calculate it
The one number that says whether your system makes money. Win rate alone lies; here is the formula that tells the truth.
Risk/reward ratio: how to use it with your win rate
Why a 3:1 setup only needs to win 25% of the time, and how risk/reward and win rate together decide your edge.
Drawdown and recovery: why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain
The brutal asymmetry of losses, the full recovery table, and why staying shallow beats swinging for the fences.
Technical analysis
9 guidesWhat is RSI (Relative Strength Index) and how to use it
The momentum oscillator every trader quotes, why overbought is not a short signal, and the divergence read that actually matters.
What is VWAP and how traders use it
The volume-weighted line institutions trade around, why it acts as intraday support, and how anchored VWAP sharpens it.
What is MACD and how to read it
The three parts of MACD, what crossovers and the zero line mean, and why it whipsaws in a range.
Moving average crossover: golden cross and death cross
What the 50/200 crossover signals, SMA versus EMA, and why crossovers work as a filter but whipsaw in chop.
What is ATR (Average True Range) and how to use it
The volatility gauge behind smart stops and sizing, how True Range is built, and why ATR is an input, not a signal.
What is support and resistance (and how to trade it)
Why support and resistance are zones, not lines, how they form, role reversal, and why they set the odds instead of a guarantee.
What are Bollinger Bands and how to use them
The 20-period middle band, the 2 standard-deviation envelope, the squeeze, and why tagging the upper band is not a sell.
Fibonacci retracement explained: the key levels
The 23.6, 38.2, 50, 61.8, and 78.6 percent levels, how to draw them, and why they only work as confluence with other evidence.
Candlestick patterns explained: the ones that matter
Candle anatomy, the doji, hammer, engulfing, and star patterns, and why context and confirmation beat pattern-spotting.
Options
5 guidesOptions profit and loss explained: max gain, max loss, breakeven
The three numbers that define every option trade, worked for calls, puts, covered calls, and spreads.
The covered call strategy explained
Generate income on shares you own, the max-profit and breakeven math, and the two ways a covered call can bite you.
The iron condor explained
The four-leg range strategy, its max profit, max loss, and two breakevens, and why the loss is bigger than the win.
Cash-secured puts at a demand zone: the income setup
Sell a put at or below a demand zone on a quality name and get paid to wait at support: what the trade is, the collateral, choosing your cushion, and managing, rolling, and assignment.
The wheel strategy explained: puts, assignment, covered calls
The full income loop: cash-secured puts, assignment at a chosen price, covered calls above basis, and repeat, with the honest math and the one failure mode most guides skip.