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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Support isn’t a magical, invisible forcefield that price respects out of politeness. It’s a messy psychological battleground. Specifically, it’s a price area where, historically, enough buyers have shown up with their wallets open to halt a downward slide. Once you learn to identify who these buyers are and track their behavior, support stops being something you blindly hope holds and becomes something you can actually read
Updated on Jul 17, 2026
"Stops going up" isn't market magic or a spooky supernatural event. It’s the direct result of specific selling decisions made by specific human beings (and their robotic overlords) at a specific price for highly predictable reasons. Once you can name those reasons, resistance stops being a random line you're crossing your fingers and hoping holds. Instead, it becomes a map you can actually read.
Updated on Jul 17, 2026
A level tested many times isn't necessarily stronger than a fresh one. It's more recognized, and recognition creates both opportunity and risk... Many experienced traders watch for exhaustion at frequently-tested levels rather than assuming they'll hold forever.
Updated on Jul 20, 2026