Stage 5: Paper Trading & Journaling
The 'Beta Test' of your strategy. Practice on a simulator and learn to journal your results before risking a single dollar.
Latest Articles from Stage 5: Paper Trading & Journaling
Oil Futures Short — London High/London Low Range, Active Risk Management
Active risk management saved this trend trade.
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Trading the Oil Trend in a High-Volatility Environment
Ongoing geopolitical tension around the Strait of Hormuz, creating sustained bullish pressure on oil.
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Support & Resistance Part 5: How to Backtest (Without Fooling Yourself)
A practical guide to testing your S&R approach on historical data — and the biases that make most backtesting results useless.
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Trend Following Part 5: How to Backtest a Trend Following Strategy That Actually Tells You Something
Trend following is one of the few trading approaches where rigorous backtesting is both achievable and genuinely informative. Here's how to run an honest test, what metrics to look for, and what the research actually shows.
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Trading gets marketed as passive income or a side hustle. It's neither. It's a skill-intensive discipline with a multi-year learning curve. Understanding this upfront changes how you approach everything that comes next.
Updated on Jul 10, 2026
Learning trading takes longer than most people expect. Not because the material is overly complex, but because understanding something and being able to operate inside it are two very different things. Early progress feels real, but it’s mostly recognition. The actual learning begins later, when decisions happen under uncertainty, feedback is inconsistent, and nothing behaves as cleanly as the explanation did.
Updated on May 20, 2026
The trading education industry is worth billions of dollars. Most of it exchanged for information freely available elsewhere. Understanding why paid courses are usually a bad deal for beginners, and where the genuinely good free resources are, saves money and time.
Updated on Jul 10, 2026